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| Issues in measuring costs in institutional settings | | Author(s) | Gerald L Glandon, David A Lindeman, Douglas Holmes |
| Journal title | Journal of Mental Health and Aging, vol 3, no 1, Spring 1997 |
| Pages | pp 129-144 |
| Keywords | Costs [care] ; Measurement ; Dementia ; Nursing homes ; Literature reviews ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | Studies of costs for people with dementia in institutional settings are necessary, because of the unreliability of price data for Alzheimer's care, the lack of good internal cost control mechanisms for nursing homes, and the potential inflationary impact that consumption of nursing care services has on both the private and public reimbursement sectors. Historically, costing studies of dementia care have used diverse methodologies, employed poorly characterised populations and facilities, and had widely divergent goals. New techniques for measuring costs of dementia care in institutional settings should draw on traditional methodologies of cost effectiveness evaluation and health care costing in other settings. Future studies should apply more rigorous approaches to costing, starting with the identification, measurement and valuation of cost principles. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-981020254 A |
| Classmark | QDC: 3R: EA: LHB: 64A: 7T |
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