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| Title |
Estimating the economic and social costs of dementia in Ireland
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|---|---|
| Published in |
Dementia, March 2012
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| DOI | 10.1177/1471301212442453 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Sheelah Connolly, Paddy Gillespie, Eamon O’Shea, Suzanne Cahill, Maria Pierce |
| Abstract |
Dementia is a costly condition and one that differs from other conditions in the significant cost burden placed on informal caregivers. The aim of this analysis was to estimate the economic and social costs of dementia in Ireland in 2010. With an estimate of 41,470 people with dementia, the total baseline annual cost was found to be over €1.69 billion, 48% of which was attributable to the opportunity cost of informal care provided by family and friends and 43% to residential care. Due to the impact of demographic ageing in the coming decades and the expected increase in the number of people with dementia, family caregivers and the general health and social care system will come under increasing pressure to provide adequate levels of care. Without a significant increase in the amount of resources devoted to dementia, it is unclear how the system will cope in the future. |
X Demographics
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Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United Kingdom | 2 | 67% |
| Unknown | 1 | 33% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 2 | 67% |
| Science communicators (journalists, bloggers, editors) | 1 | 33% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 123 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United Kingdom | 1 | <1% |
| Ireland | 1 | <1% |
| Unknown | 121 | 98% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Researcher | 20 | 16% |
| Student > Master | 18 | 15% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 14 | 11% |
| Student > Bachelor | 13 | 11% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 9 | 7% |
| Other | 22 | 18% |
| Unknown | 27 | 22% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Medicine and Dentistry | 19 | 15% |
| Economics, Econometrics and Finance | 15 | 12% |
| Nursing and Health Professions | 13 | 11% |
| Psychology | 13 | 11% |
| Social Sciences | 10 | 8% |
| Other | 24 | 20% |
| Unknown | 29 | 24% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 5. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 30 November 2021.
All research outputs
#5,867,076
of 22,736,112 outputs
Outputs from Dementia
#615
of 1,170 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#39,381
of 160,741 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Dementia
#6
of 20 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 22,736,112 research outputs across all sources so far. This one has received more attention than most of these and is in the 73rd percentile.
So far Altmetric has tracked 1,170 research outputs from this source. They typically receive more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 9.9. This one is in the 47th percentile – i.e., 47% of its peers scored the same or lower than it.
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