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Economic impact of Alzheimer's disease in the United Kingdom
— cost of care and disease severity for non-institutionalised patients with Alzheimer's disease | | Author(s) | E Souêtre, R M A Thwaites, H L Yeardley |
| Journal title | The British Journal of Psychiatry, vol 174, January 1999 |
| Pages | pp 51-55 |
| Keywords | Dementia ; Patients ; Family care ; Costs [care] ; Econometrics ; Cross sectional surveys. |
| Annotation | While the costs associated with Alzheimer's disease (AD) have been shown to be significant, there are few data relating cost of care to severity of the disease. In this cross-sectional, multi-centre, naturalistic analysis, the authors aimed to compare the costs associated with different severities of AD with those incurred by control subjects over a 3-month period. 128 non-institutionalised patients with AD, their care-givers, and 56 matched controls were interviewed once to establish resource use over the previous 3 months. Patients were stratified according to three severity groups according to their Mini Mental State Examination (MMSE) score. Costs were calculated from the perspective of society as a whole. Over the 3-month period, total mean cost per control subject (£378) was minor, compared with mean cost incurred by mild (£6,616), moderate (£10,230), and severe (£13,593) AD. Indirect cost, mainly time spent by care-givers, was the main cost component in all groups (68.6%), followed by direct medical costs (24.7%). The cost of care for an AD patient is directly related to the severity of the patient's illness. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-990119004 A |
| Classmark | EA: LF: P6:SJ: QDC: WE: 3KB |
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