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Research Interests
Raphael Wittenberg is a Associate Professorial Research Fellow at PSSRU at LSE and Deputy Director of the Centre for Health Service Economics and Organisation (CHSEO) at the University of Oxford. At PSSRU, he leads a programme of research on financing long-term care, which aims to make projections of demand for long-term care for older people and associated expenditure to 2041. He also leads research on direct payments in residential care and on community care for older people and leads modelling work for the MODEM study on care for people with dementia. At CHSEO, he leads research on trends in emergency hospital admissions of older people and on economic issues in assets based approaches to health. He was for many years a Senior Economist at the Department of Health, where he led a team of DH analysts providing analysis on social services and mental health services.
Raphael Wittenberg's Publications
Journal Articles
Journal Article
Future long-term care expenditure in Germany, Spain, Italy and the United Kingdom (2006)
Comas-Herrera A, Wittenberg R, Costa-Font J, Gori C, di Maio A, Patxot C, Pickard L, Pozzi A, Rothgang H
Ageing and Society 6, 2, 285-302
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Future demand for long-term care in the UK. A summary of projections of long-term care finance for older people to 2051 (2004)
Wittenberg R, Comas-Herrera A, Pickard L, Hancock R
Newsletter of the Geneva Association of Insurance Economics 11, 2-4
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Who will pay for long-term care in the UK? Projections linking macro- and micro-simulation models (2003)
Hancock R, Comas-Herrera A, Wittenberg R, Pickard L
Fiscal Studies 24, 4, 387-426
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Demand for long-term care for older people in England to 2031 (2001)
Wittenberg R, Pickard L, Comas-Herrera A, Davies B, Darton R
Health Statistics Quarterly , 12, 5-17
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Relying on informal care in the new century? Informal care for elderly people in England to 2031 (2000)
Pickard L, Wittenberg R, Comas-Herrera A, Davies B, Darton R
Ageing and Society 20, 6, 745-772
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Proposals for financing community and long-term care in the UK (1997)
Wittenberg R, Davies B, Pickard L
The Gerontologist 37, 347
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Book
Demand for Long-Term Care: Projections of Long-Term Care Finance for Elderly People (1998)
Wittenberg R, Pickard L, Comas-Herrera A, Davies B, Darton R
Personal Social Services Research Unit, University of Kent at Canterbury, London School of Economics and University of Manchester
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Survey questions on older people's receipt of, and payment for, formal and unpaid care in the community (2015)
Balarajan M, Blake M, Darton R, Gray M, Hancock R, Pickard L, Wittenberg R,
University of Kent
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Social care: need for and receipt of help (2015)
Maplethorpe N, Darton R, Wittenberg R
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Survey questions on older people’s receipt of, and payment for, formal and unpaid care in the community (2015)
Balarajan M, Blake M, Darton R, Gray M, Hancock R, Pickard L, Wittenberg R
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Social care provision (2014)
Rooney K, Darton R, Wittenberg R
Health and Social Care Information Centre
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Social care: need for and receipt of help (2014)
, Darton R, Wittenberg R
Health and Social Care Information Centre
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Social care provision (2014)
Rooney K, Darton R, Wittenberg R
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Social care: need for and receipt of help (2014)
Thompson J, Wittenberg R, Henderson C, Darton R
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Social care: need for and receipt of help (2013)
Thompson J, Wittenberg R, Henderson C, Darton R,
Health and Social Care Information Centre
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Social Care (2012)
Craig R, Darton R, Hancock R, Henderson C, Morciano M, Sadler K, Wittenberg R
Health and Social Care Information Centre
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Opportunities for Private Long-Term Care Insurance in England: What Can We Learn From Other Countries? (2012)
Comas-Herrera A, Butterfield R, Wittenberg R, Wiener J
Elgar Edwards
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Barriers and Opportunities for Private Long-Term Care Insurance in England: What Can We Learn From Other Countries? (2012)
Comas-Herrera A, Butterfield R, Fernández J-L, Wittenberg R, Wiener J
Elgar Edward
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From commission to commission: financing long-term care in England (2011)
Comas Herrera A, Wittenberg R, Pickard L
Palgarve Macmillan
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PSSRU Long-Term Care Finance Model and CARESIM: two linked UK models of long term care for older people (2007)
Wittenberg R, Hancock R, Comas-Herrera A, King D, Malley J, Pickard L, Juarez-Garcia A, Darton R
Elsevier Science
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