Health and social care service utilisation and associated expenditure among community-dwelling older adults with depressive symptoms.

ABSTRACT:

Aims

Late-life depression has substantial impacts on individuals, families and society. Knowledge gaps remain in estimating the economic impacts associated with late-life depression by symptom severity, which has implications for resource prioritisation and research design (such as in modelling). This study examined the incremental health and social care expenditure of depressive symptoms by severity.

Methods

We analysed data collected from 2707 older adults aged 60 years and over in Hong Kong. The Patient Health Questionnaire-9 (PHQ-9) and the Client Service Receipt Inventory were used, respectively, to measure depressive symptoms and service utilisation as a basis for calculating care expenditure. Two-part models were used to estimate the incremental expenditure associated

SUBMITTER: Lu S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8057460 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature