Relationship between global severity of patients with Alzheimer’s disease and costs of care in Spain; results from the co-dependence study in Spain

J. Darbà (), L. Kaskens and L. Lacey

The European Journal of Health Economics, 2015, vol. 16, issue 8, 895-905

Abstract: The costs of care for patients with AD in Spain are substantial, with informal care accounting for the greatest part. Dementia severity, measured by CDR score, showed that with increasing severity of the disease, direct medical, social care, informal care and total costs augmented. Copyright Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2015

Keywords: Alzheimer; Clinical dementia rating scale; Direct medical costs; Social care costs; Indirect costs; Informal care costs; H51; I12; I18 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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DOI: 10.1007/s10198-014-0642-0

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