Use of health and nursing care by the Elderly

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Use of health and nursing careby the Elderly
Summary of results

• Dr. Erika Schulz

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Tasks of WP 2

• To show the current use of health care services
  by the elderly
• To analyse the determinants of the demand of
  health care services
• To show to what extent the elderly receive care
  and nursing by their families and/or charitable
  institutions (formal home care/institutional
  care)
• To analyse the connection between informal
  care-giving and changes in labour force
  participation of women over time
• To analyse the contribution of the elderly to the
  care and nursing of the oldest old

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Results of data collection
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Life expectancy and hospital utilisation in
Germany
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Life expectancy and hospital utilisation in the
Netherlands
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Life expectancy and hospital utilisation in
Belgium
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Life expectancy, heath status and health care
utilisation
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Self reported health status by age-groups 1994
and 1999 in selected EU-countries
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Self reported health status by age-groups 1994
and 1999 in the Netherlands
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Self reported health status by age-groups 1994
and 1999 in Spain
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Self reported health status by age-groups 1994
and 1999 in Belgium
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Self reported health status by age-groups 1994
and 1999 in UK
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Self reported health status by age-groups 1994
and 1999 in France
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Self reported health status by age-groups 1994
and 1999 in Germany
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Self reported health status by age-groups 1999 in
participating countries - men
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Hospital days per capita - Germany