title: Public long-term care insurance for the elderly in Korea: design, characteristics, and tasks.
abstract: This paper examines the design and issues of the long-term care scheme in Korea: coverage, eligibility, benefit types, financing, delivery system, and role sharing of state, family, and market in long-term care. It also aims to examine the radical change and impacts on service financing, provision, and governance from the introduction of the long-term care insurance for the elderly in Korea. The first noteworthy change is that the long-term care service has transformed from the very selective service applicable only to low-income groups to a universal service for all income groups. The second notable change is that the service provision method has been changed from the provision by nonprofit organizations entrusted by the state under a monopolistic commission arrangement in the past to a new open-service provision arrangement in which free competition among service providers in service market and consumers' choice will be emphasized.
authors.affiliation: Department of Social Welfare, Hallym University, Gangwon, Korea.
authors.forename: Jae Eun
authors.initials: JE
authors.lastname: Seok
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D004608:Eligibility Determination; D006801:Humans; D019458:Insurance Coverage; D007353:Insurance, Long-Term Care / Q000191:economics*; D007723:Korea; D008134:Long-Term Care / Q000191:economics*; D019472:Universal Health Insurance