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Integrating Estimates of the Social and Individual Costs of Caregiving into Dementia Treatment Trials

Author(s) -

Charles D. Phillips

Publication year - 2016

Publication title -

health services insights

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.739

H-Index - 12

ISSN - 1178-6329

DOI - 10.4137/hsi.s39433

Subject(s) - dementia , randomized controlled trial , clinical trial , gerontology , cognition , medicine , caregiver burden , variety (cybernetics) , psychology , psychiatry , disease , computer science , surgery , pathology , artificial intelligence

A variety of new treatments for dementia are awaiting or undergoing randomized clinical trails. These trials focus on outcomes such as changes in cognitive function, physical function, or amyloid plaques. What is quite important and is too often missing from these trials are estimates of the impact of these treatments on the social and individual costs of providing care for those facing dementia. Until outcomes such as family caregiver time and caregiver burden are included in trails of dementia treatments, the picture of how well these treatments work will be distressingly incomplete.

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