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| Potential cost savings in residential care for Alzheimer's disease patients | | Author(s) | Joel Leon, Delores Moyer |
| Journal title | The Gerontologist, vol 39, no 4, August 1999 |
| Pages | pp 440-449 |
| Keywords | Dementia ; Care homes ; Sheltered housing ; Costs [care] ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | In the United States, there has been an increase in recent years in specialised assisted living facilities for people with Alzheimer's disease (AD). Several studies have found that the cost of residential care is cheaper in such facilities when compared with nursing homes. This study used data from a 1996 cross-sectional study examining the costs of care for AD patients to estimate the potential cost savings that could results by substituting assisted living for nursing home care for AD residents with health profiles that are manageable within assisted living facilities that specialise in dementia. Results indicate that up to 13.9% of nursing home costs could be saved, making such a service substitution an attractive alternative in the provision of residential care for certain categories of AD patients. (AKM). |
| Accession Number | CPA-000118231 A |
| Classmark | EA: KW: KLA: QDC: 7T |
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