2012 | OriginalPaper | Chapter
Long-Term Care Financing in Austria
Authors : Birgit Trukeschitz, Ulrike Schneider
Published in: Financing Long-Term Care in Europe
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
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With a universal long-term care (LTC) allowance programme, subsidized LTC services for dependent persons and a new programme coping with migrant care work in private households, Austria today is one of the European Union (EU) countries addressing the issue of LTC in a substantial manner. In 2006, Austria spent slightly less than 1 per cent of its GDP on care for elderly people alone, ranking the country fourth in the EU-25, behind Sweden (2.4 per cent), Denmark (1.7 per cent) and Norway (1.6 per cent) (Eurostat, 2010).