Informal Care Costs According to Age and Proximity to Death to Support Cost-Effectiveness Analyses.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Costs of informal care are ignored in many cost-effectiveness analyses (CEAs) conducted from a societal perspective; however, these costs are relevant for lifesaving interventions targeted at the older population. In this study, we estimated informal care costs by age and proximity to death across European regions and showed how these estimates can be included in CEAs.

Methods

We estimated informal care costs by age and proximity to death using generalised linear mixed-effects models. For this, we selected deceased singles from the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement, which we grouped by four European regions. We combined the estimates of informal care costs with life tables to illustrate the impact of including informal care costs on the incremental cost-effe

SUBMITTER: de Groot S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10450016 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature