Service utilization and health-care costs in the advanced elderly.

  • Sven Heinrich
  • Melanie Luppa
  • Herbert Matschinger
  • Matthias C Angermeyer
  • Steffi G Riedel-Heller
  • Hans-Helmut König

Abstract

Despite their increasing importance, the advanced elderly are often neglected in service utilization and costing studies. The purpose of this study was to analyze from societal perspective service utilization and direct health-care costs and its predictors in the advanced elderly population.

Bibliografische Daten

OriginalspracheDeutsch
Aufsatznummer4
ISSN1098-3015
StatusVeröffentlicht - 2008
pubmed 18179660