Residential aged care: can the house pay for it?

This is a note prepared as a background to a presentation by Hugh Sarjeant to AHURI "Housing Futures in Australia". It addresses the extent to which the cost of residential aged care can be met from house assets.

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Strengthening the financing of aged care

This paper was presented at the Productivity Commission Conference The Policy Implications of the Ageing of Australia's Population, Melbourne, March 18-19 1999. The paper estimates the level of future liabilities for aged care, and considers some means by which other sources of funding could be developed to lessen reliance on current expenditures to meet these liabilities.

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