Health Economics of Dementia [Hardcover]

Drugs are being developed to alleviate the symptoms of dementia and different models of care are being tried. This book is a reference work in the subject. It gives a basis of the disease, its epidemiology, care implications, development and use of drugs. It discusses the challenges of obtaining reliable data and reviews the tools used to assess the costs of dementia to date. It also deals with the pharmacoeconomics of dementia.GENERAL ASPECTS.

Classification and Diagnostics (L. Fratiglioni).

Epidemiology (L. Fratiglioni).

Symptomatology: Functional Capacity and Behaviour (H. Brodaty D. Lie).

Care Options and Service Innovations in Dementia Care (L. Johansson).

Different Ways of Organizing and Financing Health Care (S. H嫡nsson).

Cultural Concepts of Care for the Demented (B. Ineichen).

Interaction with People Suffering Severe Dementia (A. Norberg).

Distress and Burden for Family Caregivers (C. Whitlatch).

HEALTH ECONOMICS APPROACHES TO DEMENTIA.

Principles of Pharmacoeconomics (M. Drummond).

Methodological Issues in Health Economic Studies of Dementia (G. Karlsson, et al.).

Modeling Disease Progression with Markov Models (F. Sonnenberg E. Leventhal).

Cost of Illness of Dementia (W. Max).

Costs of Dementia in the Netherlands (M. Koopmanschap, et al.).

Cost of Treatment and Care of Alzheimer's Disease in Germany (J.-M. Schulenburg, et al.).

Costing Community Care of People with Dementia (M. Knapp R. Wigglesworth).

Indirect Costs and Costing Informal Care (M. Koopmanschap W. Brouwer).

The Resident Assessment Instrument (RAI) and Resource Use in Dementia Care (G. Ljunggren J. lã)