Costs of care trajectories of people with dementia compared with matched controls. Longitudinal analysis of linked health and administrative data.
Judith E BosmansIris van der HeideHein P J van HoutKarlijn J JolingPublished in: International journal of geriatric psychiatry (2024)
The steep rise in health and social care costs across the dementia care trajectory is mainly due to increasing costs for institutional care. For those remaining in the community, home care costs and hospital care costs were the main cost drivers. Future research should adopt a societal perspective to investigate the influence of including social costs.