The article discusses a report titled "Dementia Care in Hospitals: Costs and Strategies" from the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare which found that people with dementia stay longer in new South Wales hospitals and have higher ...
The Dementia Care Ecosystem (DCE) is a CMS funded program in three states (CA, NE, and IA) to provide supportive dementia care and reduce Medicare costs. Medicare savings will depend on careful comparisons of the DCE sample and larger dementia population. We compare Medicare costs one year be...
The high costs of treating American Indian and Alaska Native adults with dementia in the hospital suggest that much could be done to prevent some of those hospitalizations and to improve their quality of life. Our study also found that American Indian and Alaska Native adults with dementia had h...
Antonio Ligsay 6 , Jeryl Ritzi Yu 1 ,Stephen Aichele 7 and Thien Kieu Thi Phung 81 Institute for Neurosciences, St. Luke’s Medical Center, Quezon City, Philippines, 2 Institute for Dementia Care Asia
Due to its ageing population, the Netherlands is seeing an explosive growth in the number of dementia patients. This is expected to increase from 250,000 in 2013 to 500,000 in 2050. Cost cutting in the healthcare sector, together with a worsening shortag
Although overall estimates of the cost of dementia in Taiwan have been published, the relative cost of home care versus nursing home care for these patients is unclear. This study estimated the costs of home care and nursing home care for families of patients with either Alzheimer's disease or...
Memory care can take place in apartment-like facilities, within a wing of an assisted living facility, or in smaller residential care homes. The goal of memory care is to provide an engaging, safe, and therapeutic environment for seniors with dementia to support their well-being and improve ...
A tertiary hospital special care unit for dementia is cost-effective and improves outcomesNieh, C MYap, PNg, C J
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BackgroundInterhospital transfer patients are known to have higher lengths ofstay, costs, and mortality thandirect admissions after adjusting for severity of illness and otherdemographic factors. What isnot well-studied is the difference in costs between patientstransferred from an outside facility'seme...