Raphael Wittenberg

Associate Professorial Research Fellow

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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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Long-term care for older people in the United Kingdom: structure and challenges (2003)

Comas-Herrera A, Wittenberg R, Pickard L

Ashgate

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Demand for long-term care in the UK: Projections of long-term care finance for older people to 2051 (2002)

Wittenberg R, Hancock R, Comas-Herrera A, Pickard L

Institute for Public Policy Research

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Funding long-term care: the public and private options (2002)

Wittenberg R, Sandhu B, Knapp M

Open University Press

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The interface between informal and formal care of older people now and over the next 20 years. Paper presented at Health Trends Review. Proceedings of a Conference chaired by Professor Sir Michael Peckham, School of Public Policy, university College London and Dr Melanie Lee, Director of Research and Development, Celltech Group plc, Barbican Centre, London, 18-19 October 2001 (2001)

Pickard L, Wittenberg R, Comas-Herrera A, Davies B, Darton R

HM Treasury

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Community Care for Frail Older People. Analysis Using the 1998/9 General Household Survey (2001)

Pickard L, Wittenberg R, Comas-Herrera A, Davies B, Darton R

University of Stirling

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Financing Long-Term Care for Elderly People (2000)

Wittenberg R, Comas-Herrera A, Pickard L, Darton R, Davies B

School of Health Care

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Economics of long-term care finance (1999)

Wittenberg R

The Stationery Office

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Alternative strategies for financing community and long-term care: the British debate (1997)

Wittenberg R, Davies B, Pickard L

World Congress of Gerontology

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Reports

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The case for investment in technology to manage the global costs of dementia (2015)

Knapp M, Barlow J, Comas-Herrera A, Damant J, Freddolino P, Hamblin K, Hu B, Lorenz K, Perkins M, Rehill A, Wittenberg R, Woolham J

Policy Innovation Research Unit

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The hidden cost of dementia in Wales (2015)

Hu B, Wittenberg R, Knapp M

Alzheimer's Society

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Evaluation of Direct Payments in Residential Care Trailblazers - Interim Report (2015)

Ettelt S, Wittenberg R, Williams L, Perkins M, Lombard D, Damant J, Mays N

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Understanding emergency hospital admission of older people (2014)

Wittenberg R, Sharpin L, McCormick B, Hurst J

Centre for Health Service Economics and Organisation

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Dementia UK: The Second Edition (2014)

Prince M, Knapp M, Guerchet M, McCrone P, Prina M, Comas-Herrera A, Wittenberg R, Adelaja B, Hu B, King D, Rehill A, Salimkumar D

Alzheimer's Society

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Scenarios of dementia care: what are the impacts on cost and quality of life? (2014)

Knapp M, Comas-Herrera A, Wittenberg R, Hu B, King D, Rehill A, Adelaja B

Personal Social Services Research Unit

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Adult Social Care: Summary of the Research Plans of the Department of Health Policy Research Units and the Commissioned Research of the NIHR School for Social Care Research (2013)

Wittenberg R, Clark M

Policy Innovation Research Unit

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Care for older people: projected expenditure to 2022 on social care and continuing health care for England older population, (2012)

Wittenberg R, Hu B, Comas-Herrera A, Fernández J-L

Nuffield Trust

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Projections of Demand for and Costs of Social Care for Older People in England, 2010 to 2030, under Current and Alternative Funding Systems: Report to the Commission on Funding of Care and Support (2011)

Wittenberg R, Hu B, Hancock R, Morciano M, Comas-Herrera A, Malley J, King D

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Future Demand for Social Care, 2005 to 2041: Projections of Demand for Social Care for Older People in England (2008)

Wittenberg R, Pickard L, Malley J, King D, Comas-Herrera A, Darton R

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Future Demand for Social Care, 2005 to 2041: Projections of Demand for Social Care and Disability Benefits for Younger Adults in England (2008)

Wittenberg R, Malley J, Comas-Herrera A, Fernández J-L, King D, Snell T, Pickard L

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Paying for Long-Term Care for Older People in the UK: Modelling the Costs and Distibutional Effects of a Range of Options (2007)

Hancock R, Wittenberg R, Pickard L, Comas-Herrera A, Juarez-Garcia A, King D, Malley J

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