Projecting Long-Term Care Costs for Home and Community-Based Services in China from 2005 to 2050.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

The aim of this study was to estimate and project the trend in long-term care (LTC) costs for home and community-based services as a percentage of gross domestic product in China between 2005 and 2050.

Design

Longitudinal.

Setting and participants

We used 61,249 observations from 37,702 adults age ≥65 years from waves 2005, 2008, 2011, 2014, and 2018 of the Chinese Longitudinal Healthy Longevity Surveys.

Methods

LTC costs for home and community-based services consisted of the monetary value of time spent on LTC and the direct LTC cost. We used the age-sex-residence-specific weights provided by the Chinese Longitudinal Healthy Longevity Surveys to estimate the LTC costs from 2005 to 2018. We used a component-based model to project LTC costs, in which

SUBMITTER: Jin H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10134410 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature