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Long-Term Care around the World

Jonathan Gruber

Culture, humanities & social science

Long-Term Care around the World

Edited by Jonathan Gruber, the Ford Professor of Economics and head of the Department of Economics, and Kathleen McGarry

University of Chicago Press · 2025

As formal long-term care becomes unaffordable for seniors in many countries, public systems and unpaid caregivers increasingly bear the burden of supporting the world's aging population. "Long-Term Care around the World" is a comparative analysis of long-term care in 10 wealthy countries that considers the social costs of both formal and informal care -which is critical, given that informal unpaid care is estimated to account for one-third of all long-term care spending.

From Summer 2025 recommended reading from MIT (MIT News). Cover image via Google Books.