The costs of dementia from the societal perspective: is care provided in the community really cheaper than nursing home care?
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The costs of dementia from the societal perspective: is care provided in the community really cheaper than nursing home care? / König, Hans-Helmut; Leicht, Hanna; Brettschneider, Christian; Bachmann, Cadja; Bickel, Horst; Fuchs, Angela; Jessen, Frank; Köhler, Mirjam; Luppa, Melanie; Mösch, Edelgard; Pentzek, Michael; Werle, Jochen; Weyerer, Siegfried; Wiese, Birgitt; Scherer, Martin; Maier, Wolfgang; Riedel-Heller, Steffi G; AgeCoDe Study Group.
in: J AM MED DIR ASSOC, Jahrgang 15, Nr. 2, 01.02.2014, S. 117-26.Publikationen: SCORING: Beitrag in Fachzeitschrift/Zeitung › SCORING: Zeitschriftenaufsatz › Forschung › Begutachtung
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T1 - The costs of dementia from the societal perspective: is care provided in the community really cheaper than nursing home care?
AU - König, Hans-Helmut
AU - Leicht, Hanna
AU - Brettschneider, Christian
AU - Bachmann, Cadja
AU - Bickel, Horst
AU - Fuchs, Angela
AU - Jessen, Frank
AU - Köhler, Mirjam
AU - Luppa, Melanie
AU - Mösch, Edelgard
AU - Pentzek, Michael
AU - Werle, Jochen
AU - Weyerer, Siegfried
AU - Wiese, Birgitt
AU - Scherer, Martin
AU - Maier, Wolfgang
AU - Riedel-Heller, Steffi G
AU - AgeCoDe Study Group
N1 - Copyright © 2014 American Medical Directors Association, Inc. Published by Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
PY - 2014/2/1
Y1 - 2014/2/1
N2 - OBJECTIVE: To compare the costs of care for community-dwelling dementia patients with the costs of care for dementia patients living in nursing homes from the societal perspective.DESIGN: Cross-sectional bottom-up cost of illness study nested within the multicenter German AgeCoDe-cohort.SETTING: Community and nursing homes.PARTICIPANTS: One hundred twenty-eight community-dwelling dementia patients and 48 dementia patients living in nursing homes.INTERVENTION: None.MEASUREMENTS: Utilization and costs of medical care and long term care, including formal and informal social and nursing care based on proxy interviews. Informal care was valued using the replacement cost method.RESULTS: Unadjusted mean annual total costs including informal care were €29,930 ($43,997) for community-dwelling patients and €33,482 ($49,218) for patients living in nursing homes. However, multiple regression analysis controlling for age, sex, deficits in basic and instrumental activities of daily living and comorbidity showed that living in the community significantly increased total costs by €11,344 ($16,676; P < .01) compared with living in a nursing home, mainly due to higher costs of informal care (+€20,585; +$30,260; P < .001).CONCLUSION: From the societal perspective care for dementia patients living in the community tends to cost more than care in nursing homes when functional impairment is controlled for.
AB - OBJECTIVE: To compare the costs of care for community-dwelling dementia patients with the costs of care for dementia patients living in nursing homes from the societal perspective.DESIGN: Cross-sectional bottom-up cost of illness study nested within the multicenter German AgeCoDe-cohort.SETTING: Community and nursing homes.PARTICIPANTS: One hundred twenty-eight community-dwelling dementia patients and 48 dementia patients living in nursing homes.INTERVENTION: None.MEASUREMENTS: Utilization and costs of medical care and long term care, including formal and informal social and nursing care based on proxy interviews. Informal care was valued using the replacement cost method.RESULTS: Unadjusted mean annual total costs including informal care were €29,930 ($43,997) for community-dwelling patients and €33,482 ($49,218) for patients living in nursing homes. However, multiple regression analysis controlling for age, sex, deficits in basic and instrumental activities of daily living and comorbidity showed that living in the community significantly increased total costs by €11,344 ($16,676; P < .01) compared with living in a nursing home, mainly due to higher costs of informal care (+€20,585; +$30,260; P < .001).CONCLUSION: From the societal perspective care for dementia patients living in the community tends to cost more than care in nursing homes when functional impairment is controlled for.
U2 - 10.1016/j.jamda.2013.10.003
DO - 10.1016/j.jamda.2013.10.003
M3 - SCORING: Journal article
C2 - 24321877
VL - 15
SP - 117
EP - 126
JO - J AM MED DIR ASSOC
JF - J AM MED DIR ASSOC
SN - 1525-8610
IS - 2
ER -