Transcription of Long-term Care: Growing Sector, Multifaceted …
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Help Wanted?Providing and Paying for Long-term care OECD 201137 Chapter 1 Long-term care : Growing sector , Multifaceted SystemsLong-term care (LTC) is a Growing , but relatively small sector in the economy. Peopleolder than 65 years of age, especially those aged over 80 years, have the highestprobability of receiving LTC services, while women are the main recipients ofservices. LTC is a labour intensive sector , which is mostly publicly funded. Onaverage, LTC expenditure accounts for of GDP across the OECD. Most care isprovided by family carers. The LTC workforce (mostly women working part-time ina majority of countries) is about of the total OECD workforce.
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