With an increasingly elderly population in the UK, the issues and pressures surrounding adult social care are continuing to mount. Family carers need greater support, but those taking on the role of carer must be increasingly monitored. Older people choosing to stay independent and in their own ...
Live-in care could be more affordable compared to some hourly care or fees charged by some care homes. Quality home care support at a sensible cost. The average cost of an hour of care support in a person's home ranges between £15 and £25 per hour, which may be higher in rural...
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some argue that the QALY does not capture all the relevant benefits from therapy, such as external benefits to others including carers, the value of scientific spill-overs leading to other innovations, effects on the broader economy in terms of production, or other social values such as any des...
A recent comparison of low-risk women choosing to give birth in a freestanding birth centre with a hospital obstetric unit in the United Kingdom (UK) estimated a saving of approximately £850 per woman [12]. Huynh et al. (2013) conducted a review of the cost of pregnancy in the United...
Dying, death and bereavement: a qualitative study of the views of carers of people with heart failure in the UK p pBackground/p pThis paper explores carers views of dying, death and bereavement for family members who had recently died with heart failure adding to a g... N Small,S ...
Dementia UK: The Second Edition, prepared by King's College London and the London School of Economics for the Alzheimer's Society, finds that the cost of dementia to the UK has hit £26 billion a year and that people with dementia, their carers and fam
Mental health systems are increasingly organised around a new guiding principle of recovery, no longer prioritising the idea or goal of the person “being cured” but instead focussing on the goal of supporting people to live well in inclusive communities.4 Placing increased importance on personal ...
The aim of this study was to measure the one-year total cost of strokes and to investigate the value of stroke care, defined as cost per QALY. The study population included 892 patients with first-ever acute strokes, hemorrhagic strokes, and ischemic str
Moreover, out-of-pocket costs contribute to the economic burden of cancer patients, regardless of the country they live in. Although healthcare insurance coverage differs across jurisdictions, the literature suggests that medical debt is not just a problem in low- and middle-income countries (...