Excess costs of dementia in old age (85+) in Germany: Results from the AgeCoDe-AgeQualiDe study

Lydia Neubert, Hans-Helmut König, Margrit Löbner, Melanie Luppa, Michael Pentzek, Angela Fuchs, Dagmar Weeg, Horst Bickel, Anke Oey, Birgitt Wiese, Siegfried Weyerer, Jochen Werle, Kathrin Heser, Michael Wagner, Dagmar Lühmann, Carolin van der Leeden, Wolfgang Maier, Martin Scherer, Steffi G Riedel-Heller and Christian Brettschneider

The Journal of the Economics of Ageing, 2021, vol. 20, issue C

Abstract: Dementia is a major economic challenge for societies worldwide. One approach of cost-of-illness studies focuses on the excess costs of people with dementia compared to costs in people without dementia. Yet, excess costs of dementia have rarely been examined.

Keywords: Informal care; Entropy balancing; Mean cost differences (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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DOI: 10.1016/j.jeoa.2021.100346

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