Costs of care for people with dementia just before and after nursing home placement: primary data from eight European countries

European Journal of Health Economics

Volumn 16, Issue 7, 2015, Pages 689-707

  Wübker, Ansgar ^a,b   Zwakhalen, Sandra M G ^c   Challis, David ^d   Suhonen, Riitta ^e   Karlsson, Staffan ^f   Zabalegui, Adelaida ^g   Soto, Maria ^h   Saks, Kai ⁱ   Sauerland, Dirk ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WITTEN HERDECKE   (Germany)

^b RWI LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR ECONOMIC RESEARCH   (Germany)

^c MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

^f LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^g HOSPITAL CLÍNIC   (Spain)

^h TOULOUSE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (France)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF TARTU   (Estonia)

Author keywords

Costs of care; Dementia; Informal caregiving; International data; Professional home care versus institutional long term care

Indexed keywords

ADL DISABILITY; AGED; ARTICLE; CAREGIVER BURDEN; COGNITION; COMMUNITY CARE; COMORBIDITY; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; DEMENTIA; DISEASE SEVERITY; ECONOMIC EVALUATION; EUROPEAN; FEMALE; FRANCE; GERMANY; HEALTH CARE COST; HOME CARE; HUMAN; INSTITUTIONAL CARE; INSTITUTIONALIZATION; KATZ INDEX; LONG TERM CARE; MINI MENTAL STATE EXAMINATION; NETHERLANDS; NURSING CARE; NURSING HOME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPAIN; STRUCTURED QUESTIONNAIRE; CAREGIVER; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ECONOMICS; EUROPE; MALE; PSYCHOLOGICAL RATING SCALE; QUESTIONNAIRE; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; VERY ELDERLY;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CAREGIVERS; DEMENTIA; EUROPE; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE COSTS; HOME CARE SERVICES; HUMANS; INSTITUTIONALIZATION; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; NURSING HOMES; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; SURVEYS AND QUESTIONNAIRES;

EID: 84938995937     PISSN: 16187598     EISSN: 16187601     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10198-014-0620-6     Document Type: Article

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