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P3‐340: Incidence of Alzheimer's disease and changes of diet
Author(s) -
Gu Yian,
Nieves Jeri,
Luchsinger Jose,
Stern Yaakov,
Scarmeas Nikolaos
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
alzheimer's and dementia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 6.713
H-Index - 118
eISSN - 1552-5279
pISSN - 1552-5260
DOI - 10.1016/j.jalz.2011.05.1783
Subject(s) - gee , medicine , incidence (geometry) , cohort , demography , food group , food consumption , consumption (sociology) , gerontology , zoology , generalized estimating equation , environmental health , mathematics , biology , social science , statistics , geometry , sociology , agricultural economics , economics
giver questionnaires. Formal care activity was grouped into three broad categories: community support services; primary care services; and secondary care services. In respect of informal care provision, the opportunity cost method was adopted for the costing of reported caregiver time input. A vector of Irish unit cost data (Euro (V,:) 2008 prices) was applied to value resource activity and the total formal and informal care costs calculated for each dependence category. Results: The average cost of formal care, when individual resource components were valued and combined, was V,:1,043 for the low dependence group, V,:1,509 for the moderate dependence group, and V,:3,271 for the high dependence group. In regard to informal care, the respective average costs were V,:13, V,:53, and V,:91 per day and V,:2,373, V,:9,673, and V,:16,608 over 6 months. Conclusions: The preliminary results indicate that the costs of formal and informal care services both increased in linewith increasing dependence.While the results obtained were estimated for a small opportunistic sample and are not readily general sable, they do provide a broad sense of the relationship between resource use, cost and dependence for people with dementia and will serve to inform the design of further research in this area in the future.