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Long-Term Care in Germany in the Context of the Demographic Transition—An Outlook for the Expenses of Long-Term Care Insurance through 2050

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  • Patrizio Vanella

    (Demography Cluster, Department of Health Monitoring & Biometrics, aQua Institute, 37073 Göttingen, Germany
    Chair of Empirical Methods in Social Science and Demography, University of Rostock, 18051 Rostock, Germany
    Working Group of Demographic Methods, German Demographic Society (DGD), c/o Federal Institute for Population Research (BiB), 65185 Wiesbaden, Germany)

  • Christina Benita Wilke

    (Chair of Economics, FOM University of Applied Sciences, 28359 Bremen, Germany)

  • Moritz Heß

    (Kompetenzzentrum Ressourcenorientierte Alter(n)sforschung, Hochschule Niederrhein, 41065 Mönchengladbach, Germany)

Abstract

Demographic aging results in a growing number of older people in need of care in many regions all over the world. Germany has witnessed steady population aging for decades, prompting policymakers and other stakeholders to discuss how to fulfill the rapidly growing demand for care workers and finance the rising costs of long-term care. Informed decisions on this matter to ensure the sustainability of the statutory long-term care insurance system require reliable knowledge of the associated future costs. These need to be simulated based on well-designed forecast models that holistically include the complexity of the forecast problem, namely the demographic transition, epidemiological trends, concrete demand for and supply of specific care services, and the respective costs. Care risks heavily depend on demographics, both in absolute terms and according to severity. The number of persons in need of care, disaggregated by severity of disability, in turn, is the main driver of the remuneration that is paid by long-term care insurance. Therefore, detailed forecasts of the population and care rates are important ingredients for forecasts of long-term care insurance expenditures. We present a novel approach based on a stochastic demographic cohort-component approach that includes trends in age- and sex-specific care rates and the demand for specific care services, given changing preferences over the life course. The model is executed for Germany until the year 2050 as a case study.

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  • Patrizio Vanella & Christina Benita Wilke & Moritz Heß, 2024. "Long-Term Care in Germany in the Context of the Demographic Transition—An Outlook for the Expenses of Long-Term Care Insurance through 2050," Econometrics, MDPI, vol. 12(4), pages 1-20, October.
  • Handle: RePEc:gam:jecnmx:v:12:y:2024:i:4:p:28-:d:1494709
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    1. Myka Harun Sarajan & Kahkashan Mahreen & Patrizio Vanella & Alexander Kuhlmann, 2024. "Impact of Demographic Developments and PCV13 Vaccination on the Future Burden of Pneumococcal Diseases in Germany—An Integrated Probabilistic Differential Equation Approach," Mathematics, MDPI, vol. 12(6), pages 1-21, March.
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