Economic valuation and determinants of informal care to people with Alzheimer’s disease

Luz Peña-Longobardo and Juan Oliva ()

The European Journal of Health Economics, 2015, vol. 16, issue 5, 507-515

Abstract: Informal care represents a high social cost in people with AD, regardless of the estimation method considered. A higher level of dependence is associated with more hours of informal care provided. Copyright Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2015

Keywords: Economic value; Social costs; Informal care; Revealed preference methods; Contingent valuation; Alzheimer’s disease; I1; I3; D1; D6; J14 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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DOI: 10.1007/s10198-014-0604-6

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