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| The cost of behavioral and psychological symptoms of dementia (BPSD) in community dwelling Alzheimer's disease patients | | Author(s) | Michal Schnaider Beeri, Perla Werner, Michael Davidson |
| Journal title | International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, vol 17, no 5, May 2002 |
| Pages | pp 403-408 |
| Keywords | Dementia ; Symptoms ; Behaviour disorders ; Living in the community ; Informal care ; Costs [care] ; Israel. |
| Annotation | 71 community-dwelling Israeli Alzheimer's disease (AD) patients and their caregivers were interviewed regarding the number of caregivers' hours invested in caring for the patient and amount of expenditure such as in-house paid care and payments for day care. Approximately 30% of the total annual cost of AD ($14,420) is invested in direct management of behavioural and psychological symptoms of dementia (BPSD). Given the importance of BPSD as one of the main components of cost of AD, future cost studies should be designed to measure the cost of specific components of BPSD and verify which are the most costly aspects of the disease. Despite the considerable methodological difficulties in disentangling the costs of specific symptoms of AD, cost effectiveness studies of different interventions should be conducted, to determine the optimal intervention with regard to cost. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-020529201 A |
| Classmark | EA: CT: EP: K4: P6: QDC: 7H6 |
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