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Cognitive impairment in older people: future demand for services and costs
— [update] | | Author(s) | Adelina Comas-Herrera, Raphael Wittenberg, Linda Pickard |
| Journal title | Mental Health Research Review, no 9, May 2003 |
| Pages | pp 33-35 |
| Source | http://www.mrc-cfas.cam.ac.uk/cfas |
| Keywords | Cognitive impairment ; Usage [services] ; Costs [care] ; Long term ; Research Reviews. |
| Annotation | This study begun in 1998 by the Personal Social Services Research Unit (PSSRU) financed by the Alzheimer's Research Trust, aimed to investigate the impact of cognitive impairment on long-term care demand and expenditure up to 2031. The project models were devised by PSSRU and refined over time; they involved use of information from the MRC Cognitive Functioning and Ageing Study (MRC-CFAS, 1998). The model produces projections (not forecasts) under a set of assumptions about some of the key factors that will impact on future long-term care expenditure. The results of the analyses show that, unless more effective treatments for cognitive impairment are developed and made widely available, the numbers of older people with cognitive impairment will rise significantly over the next 30 years. This means that substantial increases in formal services will be required. The implication is that there is a need to develop, and make widely available, better treatments to slow down the progressive decline associated with dementia. (KJ). |
| Accession Number | CPA-031020206 A |
| Classmark | E4: QLD: QDC: 4Q: 3A:6KC |
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