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Alzheimer's disease and other dementia in nursing homes
— levels of management and cost | | Author(s) | Judith A O'Brien, J Jaime Caro |
| Journal title | International Psychogeriatrics, vol 13, no 3, September 2001 |
| Pages | pp 347-358 |
| Keywords | Dementia ; Nursing homes ; Management [care] ; Residents [care homes] ; Needs [elderly] ; Costs [care] ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | Data from the 1995 Massachusetts Medicaid nursing home database were used to examine residents with Alzheimer's disease (AD), other types of dementia, and no dementia to determine care and dependency levels. Massachusetts Medicaid 1997 per diem rates for each of ten designated management levels were applied according to residents in each level, to estimate annual care costs (in US dollars at 1997 rates). On average, a resident with dementia requires 229 more hours of care annually than one without dementia, resulting in a mean additional cost of $3,865 per patient with dementia per year. Dementia thus increases the care needs and cost of caring for a nursing home resident. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-020215205 A |
| Classmark | EA: LHB: QA: KX: IK: QDC: 7T |
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