Vollering - Care Services

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ANS VOLLERING completed her studies In economics at Erasmus Univer sity Rotterdam in 1983. Since then, she has been a full-time researcher in applied economics. She has done research on regional development problems, cost-benefit analysis and housing policy. In recent years her research has been focused on the economics of aging. She is presentiy working at the Tinbergen Institute of the Free University of Amsterdam and for the National Advisory Council on Policy for the Elderly (Rijswijk). TINBERGEN INSTITUTE RESEARCH SERIES In the Netherlands the population is aging rapidly. Where in 1990 approximately 13% of the total population was 65 years or older, this figure is expected to increase to about 18,5% in 2020. Besides this general aging trend, the phenomenon of double aging, a growing proportion of the very old population within the old population, also occurs in the Netherlands. In this book care services use is analyzed (medical services, district nursing, home help care, etc.). The aim is to give insight into the consequences of aging of the Dutch population on care services use. In order to quantify the relations between, on the one hand, the characteristics of the elderly, such as living conditions, degree of disability, economic factors, and, on the other hand, the demand for care services for the elderly in the Netherlands, a discrete choice model is developed and estimated. The aging of the population is expected to have important consequences on the use of care services. In the demographic scenario are the consequences approximated for the year 2000 by means of micro simulation. The future elderly population differs from the present elderly population: income still tends to rise for the younger cohorts, health status increases, etc. Scenarios reflecting these tendencies for the future population show that the use of care services will grow less than in the demographic scenario.