Monthly on the 3rd Thursday
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The Gateway to Global Aging, in partnership with the Center to Accelerate Population Research in Alzheimer’s (capra.med.umich.edu), is organizing a monthly virtual seminar series on long-term care, services, and policy. The seminar series is led by Julien Bergeot and Giacomo Pasini from Ca' Foscari University of Venice. The goal of the seminar series is to promote international interactions among scholars in this growing field of research. Presentations will typically be on in-progress work and discussions are strongly encouraged.

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Upcoming Presentations:

• November 21, 2024
  Manuel V. Montesinos, ROCKWOOL Foundation Berlin
  "Elderly Care across Europe: The Role of Formal and Informal Care in Family Decision-Making"
  This paper studies the factors that determine families’ decisions to provide formal and informal care across Europe. To explain the observed patterns of care provision and labor force participation of children of care recipients, I develop a model that represents the interactions among old parents and their adult children as a static, non-cooperative game of complete information. I estimate this model using data of Northern, Central and Southern European countries from the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe. Equipped with the estimated model, I carry out a decomposition analysis of the forces behind differences in formal and informal care provision and labor supply of informal caregivers across Europe. The results of this exercise indicate that these differences can be largely explained by model parameters that capture the influence of public institutions and social norms, and by wage levels. Next, I use the estimated model to assess various types of subsidies to support care recipients and caregivers, conditional or unconditional on the labor supply decisions of the latter. I find that unconditional subsidies to informal caregivers are the most effective at increasing care provision, while subsidies that are conditional on employment help close labor force participation gaps between caregivers and noncaregivers.
• December 12, 2024 *special date
  Elena Bassoli, ETH Zürich (joint work with Mathieu Lefebvre and Jérôme Schoenmaekers)
  "Comparing Health Outcomes in Different Care Settings: Nursing Homes vs. Home Care"
  In this paper, we present estimates of the effect of different care settings on different health outcomes. We use data from the Survey “Capacite, Aide et Ressources des Seniors” (CARE), which interviews French individuals aged 60 and above, to assess the differential effect of living at home or in a nursing home on mortality and morbidity indicators as well as life satisfaction. In addition, we differentiate the effect between for-profit and nonprofit nursing homes. To do so, we apply a propensity score matching approach that controls for selection on observables by matching people living at home with those living in nursing homes. Our results are threefold. First, we observe an excess mortality in nursing homes but no difference between or-profit and non-profit institutions. Second, the residential status does not affect the probability to fall or to be hospitalized. Finally, being in a nursing home appears to have an impact on life satisfaction. In particular those in for-profit nursing homes declare to be worse-off than those in nonprofit institutions.

Thank you to those who have already presented:

• January 19, 2023
  Julien Bergeot of the Department of Economics, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice (joint work with Louis Arnault)
  "Informal Care & Mental Health: A Story of Unobserved Heterogeneity"
• February 16, 2023
  Marlies Bär of the Erasmus School of Health Policy & Management, Erasmus University Rotterdam (joint work with Pieter Bakx, Nigel Rice, Rita Santos, Luigi Siciliani, and Bram Wouterse)
  "Spillovers of Delayed Nursing Home Admissions to the Hospital Sector"
• March 16, 2023
  Edward Norton, University of Michigan
  "Did Avoiding Post-Acute SNF Care During COVID Save Lives?"
• April 20, 2023
  Ingo Kolodziej of RWI Essen (joint work with Norma B. Coe of the University of Pennsylvania and Courtney H. Van Houtven of Duke University)
  "Intensive Informal Care and Impairments in Work Productivity and Activity"
• May 18, 2023
  Joan Costa-i-Font, London School of Economics
  "Are Long term care subsidies and supports productive? Effects on health and wellbeing"
• September 21, 2023
  Elsa Perdrix, Paris Dauphine University
  "Horizontal Inequity in Long-term Care Use in France"
• October 19, 2023
  Bertrand Achou, University of Groningen
  "At Home versus in a Nursing Home: Long-term Care Settings and Marginal Utility"
• November 16, 2023
  R. Tamara Konetzka, University of Chicago
  "The Role of Medicaid Home- and Community-Based Services in Use of Medicare Post-Acute Care"
• Dec 14, 2023
  Anne Penneau, Institute for Research and Information in Health Economics
  "The Impact of Nursing Homes on Quality of Drug Prescription in France"
• February 15, 2024
  Helena M. Hernandez-Pizarro, Pompeu Fabra University
  "Unravelling Hidden Inequities in a Universal Public Long-Term Care System"
• March 21, 2024
  Sung Ah Bahk, American University (joint work with Selin Secil Akin, Lidia Brun, Ignacio Gonzalez, and Aina Puig)
  "Universal Long-term Care Reform and the Labor Supply of Caregivers: Evidence from Korea"
• April 18, 2024
  Meghan Skira, University of Georgia
  "Genetic Risk for Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Dementias: Cognition, Economic Behavior, and Clinically Actionable Information"
• May 16, 2024
  Wenhan Zhang, Duke University
  "Trends in Quality of Life Indicators for Older Adults with Cognitive Impairment Across Living and Care Arrangements from 2008 to 2020: A Population-Based Descriptive Study"
• September 19, 2024
  Bram Wouterse, Erasmus School of Health Policy & Management (joint work with Prithviraj Basu Mallik and Pieter Bakx)
  "Preventing Nursing Home Use: Is State-Sponsored Spending for Social Care a Winning Formula?"
• October 10, 2024
  Chuxuan Sun, University of Pennsylvania
  "The costs of AD/ADRD by dementia subtype: Evidence from ACT"