Long term care insurance pricing in Spanish population: A functional data approach

Developed and developing countries are experiencing the consequences of an ever-increasing elderly population, including the challenges of chronic illness, disability, dependency and long term care. All over the world, more people are surviving diseases that were fatal some decades ago. Dependency c...

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Autores: Albarrán Lozano, Irene, Alonso González, Pablo Jesús|||0000-0002-4999-0151, Grané Chávez, Áurea
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2019
País:España
Institución:Universidad de Alcalá (UAH)
Repositorio:e_Buah Biblioteca Digital Universidad de Alcalá
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:ebuah.uah.es:10017/59244
Acceso en línea:http://hdl.handle.net/10017/59244
https://dx.doi.org/10.1080/1351847X.2019.1678497
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:ADL
Dependency
Disability
Functional Data
Long term Care
Ratemaking
Economía
Economics
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Sumario:Developed and developing countries are experiencing the consequences of an ever-increasing elderly population, including the challenges of chronic illness, disability, dependency and long term care. All over the world, more people are surviving diseases that were fatal some decades ago. Dependency can be seen as a consequence of the process of gradual aging. In a health context, this contingency is dened as a lack of autonomy in performing basic activities of daily living that requires the care of another person or signicant help. In this work we propose a stand-alone insurance, focused on the necessities of the eligible dependent people in Spain, taking into account their health evolution along their lives, in order to enhance the pure premium calculation. We use information from the Spanish survey EDAD 2008. The main nding is that, a policyholder can choose to underwrite among three kinds of coverages, going from a minimum to a maximum level of protection, the latter's premium being twice the former's, regardless of the onset of dependency.