Executive summary The story of dying in the 21st century is a story of paradox. While many
people are overtreated in hospitals with families and communities relegated to the margins …

Between now and 2030, every country will experience population ageing—a trend that is
both pronounced and historically unprecedented. Over the past six decades, countries of the …

The ageing of European populations presents health, long-term care, and welfare systems
with new challenges. Although reports of ageing as a fundamental threat to the welfare state …

Although the consequences of population aging for growth in health expenditures have
been widely investigated, research on this topic is rather fragmented. Therefore, these …

Background Coordinated and appropriate health care across sectors is an ongoing
challenge, especially at the end-of-life. Population-level data on end-of-life health care use …

Policy context:-All countries in Europe are experiencing an ageing of their populations, with
a decrease in the number of people of working age per retiree.-Health trends among the …

One of the most important controversies in the health economics discourse of the last twenty
years concerns the question whether the imminent ageing of the population in most OECD …

A shortcoming of many economic evaluations is that they do not include all medical costs in
life-years gained (also termed indirect medical costs). One of the reasons for this is the …

It has been demonstrated repeatedly that time to death is a much better predictor of health
care expenditures than age. This is known as the 'red herring'hypothesis. In this article, we …

This chapter summarizes the recent economic literature on health and long-term care as it
relates to population aging. The profound demographic changes taking place in developed …