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Longitudinal costs of caring for people with Alzheimer's disease

Overview of attention for article published in International Psychogeriatrics, September 2014
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Title
Longitudinal costs of caring for people with Alzheimer's disease
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International Psychogeriatrics, September 2014
DOI 10.1017/s1041610214002063
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Paddy Gillespie, Eamon O’Shea, John Cullinan, Jacqui Buchanan, Joel Bobula, Loretto Lacey, Damien Gallagher, Aine Ni Mhaolain, Brian Lawlor

Abstract

ABSTRACT Background: There has been an increasing interest in the relationship between severity of disease and costs in the care of people with dementia. Much of the current evidence is based on cross-sectional data, suggesting the need to examine trends over time for this important and growing cohort of the population. Methods: This paper estimates resource use and costs of care based on longitudinal data for 72 people with dementia in Ireland. Data were collected from the Enhancing Care in Alzheimer's Disease (ECAD) study at two time points: baseline and follow-up, two years later. Patients' dependence on others was measured using the Dependence Scale (DS), while patient function was measured using the Disability Assessment for Dementia (DAD) scale. Univariate and multivariate analysis were used to explore the effects of a range of variables on formal and informal care costs. Results: Total costs of formal and informal care over six months rose from €9,266 (Standard Deviation (SD): 12,947) per patient at baseline to €21,266 (SD: 26,883) at follow-up, two years later. This constituted a statistically significant (p = 0.0014) increase in costs over time, driven primarily by an increase in estimated informal care costs. In the multivariate analysis, a one-point increase in the DS score, that is a one-unit increase in patient's dependence on others, was associated with a 19% increase in total costs (p = 0.0610). Conclusions: Higher levels of dependence in people with Alzheimer's disease are significantly associated with increased costs of informal care as the disease progresses. Formal care services did not respond to increased dependence in people with dementia, leaving it to families to fill the caring gap, mainly through increased supervision with the progress of disease.

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Unknown 43 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 9 21%
Student > Ph. D. Student 6 14%
Other 5 12%
Student > Master 4 9%
Student > Bachelor 3 7%
Other 5 12%
Unknown 11 26%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 9 21%
Economics, Econometrics and Finance 5 12%
Social Sciences 5 12%
Psychology 4 9%
Nursing and Health Professions 4 9%
Other 3 7%
Unknown 13 30%
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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 02 September 2021.
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#6,262,718
of 23,505,010 outputs
Outputs from International Psychogeriatrics
#674
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#64,081
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Outputs of similar age from International Psychogeriatrics
#13
of 59 outputs
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