Abstract

Many low and lower-middle income countries (LMICs) will be facing problems of ageing population including Long-Term Care (LTC), which remains the largest insurable risk facing elderly people. However, they have not planned for this eventuality, the associated cost, and how resources will be mobilized to finance LTC. Understanding future financing needs of elderly people in need of LTC and alternative financing schemes that would make LTC affordable and sustainable would be helpful for LMICs in dealing with the problem.

Short Bio

Kwadwo Opoku is currently a Senior Research Fellow and Lecturer at the Centre for Social Policy Studies (CSPS), University of Ghana, Legon, Accra. He holds Ph.D. and M.A degrees in Public Economics from National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies, Tokyo, Japan and MPhil degree in Economics from the University of Ghana, Legon. Kwadwo is a development and public economist with broad research interest in the analysis of public policies, labour economics, education, distributional effects of tax, pension and ageing policies.

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