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| The economic costs of dementia in Korea, 2002 | | Author(s) | Guk-Hee Suh, Martin Knapp, Cheol-Joong Kang |
| Journal title | International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, vol 21, no 8, August 2006 |
| Pages | pp 722-728 |
| Source | http://www.interscience.wiley.com |
| Keywords | Dementia ; Costs [care] ; Costs ; Long term ; Korea. |
| Annotation | An economic evaluation model for dementia care was used to estimate the economic costs of dementia in Korea in 2002. Data were from the Korea National Survey of the Long-Term Care Need (LTC survey) of 5058 subjects, two prospective 1-year studies (one clinical trial of 234 subjects, and one naturalistic community cohort study of 107 subjects), and two epidemiological community studies for prevalence of dementia (1037 and 1481 subjects). The LTC survey provided daily costs and proportions of different levels of institutional service provision. In 2002, the total annual cost of dementia was 2.8 trillion KRW (equivalent to 2.4 billion US$) for 272000 dementia sufferers in Korea. Costs of informal care and missed work of caregivers were 1.3 billion US$, or 55% of total annual cost in this study. Family care should not be considered as a cost-free alternative to institutional care any more. Given that a larger part of the costs are subsidised by the government, the economic and social costs of dementia are significant not only for dementia sufferers, their caregivers and families, but also for society. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-061024005 A |
| Classmark | EA: QDC: WC: 4Q: 7DK |
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