A Simple Method for Simulating Dementia Onset and Death within an Existing Demographic Model.
Carolyn M RutterIfeanyi EdochieEsther M FriedmanMary E SlaughterMargaret M WedenPublished in: Medical decision making : an international journal of the Society for Medical Decision Making (2021)
Adding simulation of dementia to a kinship network model enables prediction of the availability of family caregivers for people with dementia under a range of different assumptions about future fertility, mortality, and dementia risk. We demonstrated how to add simulation of dementia onset and death to an existing microsimulation model to obtain a method for predicting dementia prevalence in the context of another more detailed model. The approach we developed can be generalized to simulate other progressive health conditions that affect mortality.