Cost of illness due to dementia in Sweden

The Art of Cost of Illness

“…The main findings, that the costs of informal care is the major cost driver and that the costs of institutional long-term care is low in Spain, is not a surprise and has been found in studies from other Mediterranean countries in contrast to Northern Europe where the cost of institutional care is the major cost driver [5,6]. The results indeed confirm the need of a societal viewpoint including costs of informal care.…”

Number of dementia sufferers in Europe between the years 2000 and 2050

“…It has been shown that dementia markedly increases the risk for requiring nursing care [1], and that caring for persons suffering from dementia is very expensive. For the care of one demented person in Sweden annual costs of Q13,700 have been reported [27], while in Germany markedly higher annual costs have been found for Alzheimer's disease (Q43,500 [7]). Furthermore, caring for those suffering from dementia is frequently associated with physical, social and psychological stresses [22,24].…”

Treating the full spectrum of dementia with memantine

“…winblad and v. jelic progression to end-stage disease. This kind of treatment brings significantly reduced burdens not only for individual care-givers but also other types of resource utilisation, since the severely demented patients consume almost 70% of the total cost for all dementias, largely due to the costs of caring for these patients in nursing homes (Wimo et al, 1997). Two studies have been performed to assess memantine in moderately severe to severe dementia (Winblad and Poritis, 1999;Reisberg et al, 2000;Reisberg et al, 2003).…”