Long Term Care for Older Adults

Irene Blackberry PhD is a Professor, John Richards Chair in Rural Ageing Research and Director of the Australian Institute of Primary Care and Ageing at La Trobe University. She is an internationally recognised leader in health services research, ageing, implementation science and care economy reform.Nicholas Morris has over 45 years’ experience advising on care policy. As Deputy Director of the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) in the UK, he pioneered the use of microsimulation analysis of health, tax and benefit systems, and was co-author of the influential book “Reform of Social Security”. At London Economics he advised on the development of GP fundholders, NHS trusts, the relocation of UK hospitals and rural health services. He also served as Governor of the UK charity “Research into Ageing”, and has advised governments in Europe, the Middle East, India, Africa, China and SE Asia on numerous aspects of public investment.Virginija Poškutė is an economist and social policy analyst at ISM University of Management and Economics in Vilnius. She has been a visiting scholar at UC Berkeley and a Fulbright researcher at the University of Virginia. Virginija has extensive international experience with UNDP, CEPS/INSTEAD, and Leuven University, and has consulted for the World Bank, UN agencies, the European Commission, OECD, and the Lithuanian Government. Her research focuses on social policy, welfare economics, and competitiveness.

• 1 Long-Term Care for Older Adults – global challenges and reformsNicholas Morris, Irene Blackberry, and Virginija Poškutė2 China Sha Li and Yu-Ching Liu3 India Mala Kapur Shankardass4 Malaysia Tengku Aizan Hamid, Rahimah Ibrahim, Asmidawati Ashari, Chai Sen Tyng, and Norisma Aiza Binti Ismail5 TaiwanJenny Lu (Chia Tzu Lu) and Nicolas Morris 6 Japan Takeo Ogawa7 GermanyChristopher Grages8 Poland Andrzej Zybała9 DenmarkBent Greve10 France Blanche Le Bihan, Arnaud Campéon, and Claude Martin11 Portugal Alexandra Lopes and Rute Lemos12 United KingdomAlison Alsbury and Matt Morris 13 Canada Lillian Hung and Yong Zhao14 United States of AmericaWaqar Ahmad, Alfred Boakye, and Jennifer Craft Morgan15 Latin America and the CaribbeanPablo Villalobos-Dintrans, Patricia Morsh, Natalia Aranco, and Déborah Oliveira 16 Australia Sue Jaffer, Nicholas Morris, and Irene Blackberry17 Long-Term Care for Older Adults - a vision for the future Irene Blackberry, Sue Jaffer, Nicholas Morris , and Virginija Poškutė