Economic and caregiver impact of Alzheimer's disease across the disease spectrum: a cohort study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Alzheimer's disease (AD) substantially increases health-related costs. This study investigates direct medical costs and characterizes the caregiver burden across AD stages.

Methods

This study analyzed data from the French Primary Health Insurance Fund claims database and reflected this public payer perspective. Outpatients (N = 1998) visiting a memory clinic at Lyon University Hospital in France between 2014 and 2019 were included. Real healthcare costs (ie, ambulatory medicine, paramedical care, pharmaceutical treatment, public and private hospital stays, and medical transportation) were collected for patients 1 year prior to the date of the first memory visit and 2 years following the first visit (reference year: 2019). Patients were grouped based on a clinical

SUBMITTER: Dauphinot V 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8841058 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature