Who pays? : the impact of user pays and economic policy on older people
Savage, Elizabeth1998
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The paper provide a useful analysis of current economic trends as they impact on older people, and challenge the dominant emphasis on economic imperatives as the sole bais for social policy.
Main title:
Who pays? : the impact of user pays and economic policy on older people / by Elizabeth Savage and Michael Fine and Jennifer Chalmers
Imprint:
Sydney NSW Committee on Ageing 1998
Collation:
98 p. illustrations
Contents:
Use pays and aged care: the context of the Australian debate - Defining user pays - Economics and the theory of user pays - The market for aged care - Other ways in which users can finance aged care - Developing a viable secure funding system for Australian aged care - Demographic change - A profile of older Australians -- Income - Direct and indirect benefits and taxes - The welfare economic framework - Redistribution over the life cycle - Social insurance- a response to asymmetric information. User pays pricing for public goods and other public sector outputs
Dewey class:
362.6 WHO
Local class:
362.6
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
17266