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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
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MODEM: A comprehensive approach to modelling outcome and costs impacts of interventions for dementia. Protocol paper (2017)
Comas-Herrera A, Knapp M, Wittenberg R, Banerjee S, Bowling A, Grundy E, Jagger C, Farina N, Lombard D, Lorenz K, McDaid D
BMC Health Services Research 17, 17:25
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The cost of diagnosis and early support in patients with cognitive decline (2016)
Pennington M, Gomes M, Chrysanthaki T, Hendriks J, Wittenberg R, Knapp M, Black N, Smith S
International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry
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Commentary: The impact of Alzheimer's disease in China (2016)
Wittenberg R, Hu B
EBioMedicine 4, 22-23
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Data on Adult Social Care: Scoping Review (2015)
King D, Wittenberg R
British Journal of Social Work
NIHR School for Social Care Research
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The challenge of measuring multi-morbidity and its costs (2015)
Wittenberg R
Israel Journal of Health Policy Research 4, 1
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The role of care home fees in the public costs and distributional effects of potential reforms to care home funding for older people in England (2013)
Hancock R, Malley J, Wittenberg R, Morciano M, Pickard L, King D, Comas-Herrera A
Health, Economics, Policy and Law 8, 1, 47-73
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Mapping the future of family care: receipt of informal care by older people with disabilities in England to 2032 (2012)
Pickard L, Wittenberg R, Comas Herrera A, King D, Malley J
Social Policy and Society 11, 4, 533-545
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Methods used to identify and measure resource use in economic evaluations: a systematic review of questionnaires for older people (2012)
Martin A, Jones A, Mugford M, Shemilt I, Hancock R, Wittenberg R
Health Economics 21, 8, 1017-1022
Wiley-Blackwell
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The Effect of Lengthening Life Expectancy on Future Pension and Long-Term Care Expenditure in England, 2007 to 2032 (2011)
Malley J, Hancock R, Adams J, Wittenberg R, Comas-Herrera A, Curry C, King D, James S, Morciano M, Pickard L
Health Statistics Quarterly 52, 33-61
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Disability, dementia and the future costs of long-term care (2011)
Comas-Herrera A, Malley J, Wittenberg R, Hu B, Jagger C
Eurohealth 17, 2,3, 10-12
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Future costs of dementia-related long-term care: exploring future scenarios (2011)
Comas-Herrera A, Northey S, Wittenberg R, Knapp M, Bhattacharyya S, Burns A
International Psychogeriatrics 23, 1, 20-30
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The long road to universalism?: recent developments in the financing of long-term care in England (2010)
Comas Herrera A, Wittenberg R, Pickard L
Social Policy and Administration 44, 4, 375-391
Blackwell Publishing Ltd
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Clinical and cost effectiveness of services for early diagnosis and intervention in dementia (2009)
Banerjee S, Wittenberg R
International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry 24, 7, 748-754
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Projecting long-term care expenditure in four European Union member states: the influence of demographic scenarios (2008)
Costa Font J, Wittenberg R, Paxtot C, Comas Herrera A, Gori C, di Maio A, Pickard L, Pozzi A, Rothgang H
Social Indicators Research 86, 2, 303-321
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Financing long-term care for older people in England (2007)
Wittenberg R, Malley J
Ageing Horizons 6, 28-32
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Winners and losers: Assessing the distributional effects of long-term care funding regimes (2007)
Hancock R, Juarez-Garcia A, Comas-Herrera A, King D, Malley J, Pickard L, Wittenberg R
Social Policy and Society 6, 3, 379-395
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Modelling an entitlement to long-term care services for older people in Europe: projections for long-term care expenditure to 2050 (2007)
Pickard L, Comas-Herrera A, Costa-Font J, Gori C, di Maio A, Patxot C, Pozzi A, Rothgang H, Wittenberg R
Journal of European Social Policy 17, 1, 33-48
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Care by spouses, care by children: Projections of informal care for older people in England to 2031 (2007)
Pickard L, Wittenberg R, Comas-Herrera A, King D, Malley J
Social Policy and Society 6, 3, 353-366
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Cognitive impairment in older people: future demand for long-term care services and the associated costs (2007)
Comas-Herrera A, Wittenberg R, Pickard L, Knapp M, MRC-CFAS
International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry 22, 10, 1037-1045
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Projections of future expenditure on long-term care for older people in England (2006)
Wittenberg R, Malley J, Pickard L, Comas-Herrera A, King D
Swiss Journal of Economics and Statistics S8, 49-53
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