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is a Research Fellow at the Centre for Socio-Economic Research on Ageing, National Institute of Health and Science on Ageing (INRCA), Italy. His research interests include the policy analysis of long-term care systems, understanding the impact of migration on the care workforce and ageing populations, and evaluation of technology-based care and support services for older people and family carers.
is Project Researcher at the Institute of Gerontology, Tokyo University, and Professor Emeritus of Political Science at the University of Michigan. He works on Japanese politics, organisational decision-making, and, in recent years, health care and programmes for older people, particularly long-term care policy in Japan and comparatively.
is a Senior Research Fellow at the Centre of Excellence in Population Ageing Research, University of New South Wales, Australia. He specialises in micro-simulation, poverty measurement, population ageing research, and comparative social policy.
is Head of the Health Division at the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), Paris. She is responsible for OECD work on health, which aims at providing internationally comparable data on health systems and applying economic analysis to health policies, advising policy-makers, stakeholders and citizens on how to respond to demands for more and better health care.
is a Research Officer at the Personal Social Services Research Unit (PSSRU), London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), UK. He is an economist specialising in health and social care quantitative analysis. His current research includes analysis of quality and efficiency variations in long-term care provision, costing mental health problems and cost-effectiveness analysis of strategies for managing dementia.
is Assistant Professor at the Department of Sociology, University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Her research focuses on changes in care policies and practices and their interactions from a European comparative perspective. She has done extensive research on long-term care reforms including cash-for-care benefits, on the conciliation between care and paid employment and on migrant care work.
is Deputy Director and Associate Professorial Research Fellow at the Personal Social Services Research Unit (PSSRU), London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), UK. A health and social care economist, he specialises in ageing-related policies, the interaction between health and social care, and the economic evaluation of health and social care services and systems. He is Director of the International Long-term care Policy Network (ILPN), linking academics and policy-makers on the analysis of long-term care; Deputy Director of the Economics of Social and Health Care Research Unit; and Assistant Director of the Quality and Outcomes Research Unit.
is a Research Fellow in the Oxford Institute of Population Ageing, UK. Laurels research interests are primarily in health and long-term care policy and reform. Laurels research interests are primarily in health and long-term care policy and reform. She has held academic research appointments in the US, Australia and the UK and has been active in policy-making positions at both federal and state levels in the US.
is a Fellow in Health Policy at the Nuffield Trust, London, UK. Her current projects at the Trust include evaluating integrated care systems, tracking the development of clinical commissioning groups and comparative analysis of international health and social care systems.
is Visiting Senior Fellow at the Personal Social Services Research Unit (PSSRU), London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), UK; Assistant Professor at the Catholic University of Milan; and Special Advisor of the International Long-term Care Policy Network (ILPN). His research interests are in long-term care policies, social care and policies against social exclusion.
is Professor Emeritus of Keio University, Tokyo. He was Chair of the Department of Health Policy and Management at the Keio School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan, from which he received his Masters and PhD. He is a founding member of interRAI. He has served as President of the Japan Society of Healthcare Administration and the Japan Health Economics Association, as an adviser to the World Health Organization, and consultant to the World Bank.
is Associate Professor in Gerontology at the School of Health Sciences, Jnkping, Senior Researcher at the National Board of Health and Welfare, Stockholm, and the Aging Research Center (ARC), Karolinska Institute/Stockholm University, Sweden. He is a psychologist with a PhD in social medicine. His main fields of interest are informal caregiving and the social policy of eldercare.
is Director of Research at the Dia Foundation for Research on Ageing Societies, Japan. He received his PhD from Keio University School of Medicine. His current research includes the measurement and quality improvement in the Home Care Agencies.
, PhD, was a Research Professor at the Health Policy Institute at Georgetown University in Washington, DC, US, when this work was conducted. She is currently a Senior Strategic Policy Adviser at the AARPs Public Policy Institute, also in Washington, DC. Her research interests ffocus on the financing of medical care and long-term care.
is Professor in Political Science at EHESP (cole des hautes tudes en sant publique), France. Her research interests are in long-term care policy in France and Europe, social care, family and work-life reconciliation, and Alzheimers disease.
