Economic Impact of Dementia by Disease Severity: Exploring the Relationship between Stage of Dementia and Cost of Care in Taiwan

Given the shortage of cost-of-illness studies in dementia outside of the Western population, the current study estimated the annual cost of dementia in Taiwan and assessed whether different categories of care costs vary by severity using multiple disease-severity measures. This study included 231 de...

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Veröffentlicht in:	PloS one 2016-02, Vol.11 (2), p.e0148779-e0148779
Hauptverfasser:	Ku, Li-Jung Elizabeth, Pai, Ming-Chyi, Shih, Pei-Yu
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Activities of daily living Aged Aged, 80 and over Alzheimer's disease Analysis Biology and Life Sciences Bivariate analysis Care and treatment Caregivers Caregivers - economics Cognitive ability Community Health Services - economics Complications and side effects Cost analysis Cost estimates Cost of Illness Costs Dementia Dementia - economics Dementia - psychology Dementia - therapy Dementia disorders Development and progression Economic aspects Economic impact Female GDP Geriatrics Gross Domestic Product Health Care Costs Hospitals Humans Impact analysis Long-term care Male Measurement methods Medicine and Health Sciences Middle Aged Multivariate Analysis Neurology Older people Patient outcomes Patients People and Places Physical Sciences Population studies Psychiatry Public health Research and Analysis Methods Severity of Illness Index Social aspects Social Sciences Studies Taiwan
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