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Help Wanted?Providing and Paying for long -Term Care OECD 201161Chapter 2 Sizing Up the Challenge Ahead: Future demographic trends and long -term Care CostsPressures on long -term care (LTC) systems are expected to grow in the Future , for atleast four reasons. First, although the speed at which populations are ageing variesconsiderably across countries, and despite uncertainties about Future trends indisability among the population, demographic transformations will increasedemand for LTC services in all societies. Second, changing societal models such asdeclining family size, changes in residential patterns of people with disabilities andrising female participation in the formal labour market are likely to contribute toa decline in the availability of family carers, leading to an increase in the need forpaid care.

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