Jonathan Gruber is the Ford Professor of Economics and head of the Economics Department at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and a research associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research. Kathleen McGarry is a professor of economics at the University of California, Los Angeles, and a research associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research.

• AcknowledgmentsIntroductionJonathan Gruber, Kathleen McGarry, and Charles Hanzel1. The Economics of Long-Term Care in CanadaKevin Milligan and Tammy Schirle2. Long-Term Care in DenmarkMette Gørtz, Bent Jesper Christensen, and Nabanita Datta Gupta3. Long-Term Care in EnglandJames Banks, Jeremy McCauley, and Eric French4. Long-Term Care in GermanyJohannes Geyer, Axel Börsch-Supan, Peter Haan, and Elsa Perdrix5. Long-Term Care in ItalyAgar Brugiavini, Ludovico Carrino, and Giacomo Pasini6. Long-Term Care in JapanRong Fu, Toshiaki Iizuka, and Haruko Noguchi7.  Long-Term Care in the NetherlandsPieter Bakx, Eddy Van Doorslaer, and Bram Wouterse8. Societal Aging and Its Impact on SingaporeCynthia Chen, Julian Lim, Abhijit Visaria, and Angelique Chan9. Universalizing the Access to Long-Term Care: Evidence from SpainJoan Costa-i-Font, Sergi Jiménez-Martín, Cristina Vilaplana Prieto, and Analía Viola10. Long-Term Care in the United StatesJonathan Gruber and Kathleen McGarryAuthor IndexSubject Index

"This book focuses on the formal and informal long-term care around the world, documenting and comparing the programs in ten wealthy countries. This analysis includes the demographic transition, critical implications, the survey data, and government statistics, which demonstrate that the costs of the elderly population long-term care in most countries are beyond the financial means and that most countries spend more on nursing homes than on home care. This account shows that in the U.S., about one-third of long-term care for the elderly is informal and provided by family and friends….[t]his book suggests that there is too much of the informal care at home, and not enough options for elders to live with effective care in congregate housing."