Health care costs of older persons with cognitive impairments.
The 1981-1982 National Long-Term Care Channeling Demonstration Project data revealed that the mean annual cost per capita for home and institutional care for cognitively impaired persons was +18,500. The equivalent figure for cognitively intact persons was +16,650. Cognitively impaired persons used nursing homes at twice the rate of cognitively intact persons. Use differences for other health services were slight. A pre- and post-nursing home admission analysis indicated that for the cognitively impaired the annual cost of community care was +11,700, whereas the cost of nursing home care was +22,300.
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D000368:Aged; D003072:Cognition Disorders / Q000191:economics*; D003365:Costs and Cost Analysis; D006299:Health Services for the Aged / Q000191:economics* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D006801:Humans; D008134:Long-Term Care / Q000191:economics; D009735:Nursing Homes / Q000191:economics; D011569:Psychiatric Status Rating Scales; D014481:United States