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Cost of community care for older people
- Authors:
- LIVINGSTON Gill, MANELA Monica, KATONA Cornelius
- Journal article citation:
- British Journal of Psychiatry, 171, July 1997, pp.56-59.
- Publisher:
- Cambridge University Press
Describes the financial cost of formal community services for elderly people with dementia, depression, anxiety disorders of physical disability. Results found that dementia was the most expensive disorder per sufferer in terms of formal services. Those with depression were also high users of health services. The highest service cost for the population as a whole was for the physically disabled. Concludes that failure to detect and treat depression and the anxiety disorders in older people, despite their presentation to medical services, may have major economic consequences as well as contributing to individual suffering.