One year of health and social services for adolescents with Down's syndrome. A calculation of costs in a representative area of Denmark.
The costs of the public health and social security system supporting adolescents 14-20 years old with Down's syndrome (DS) over 1 year (1985) were investigated in the county of Aarhus, representing about 10% of the Danish population. Seventy-eight percent of the probands lived in private homes; the rest were institutionalized. No controls lived in an institution. The average yearly price of a DS adolescent living in a private home was Dkr 217,194 (US$ 24,213 or Br.pounds 6,811). If the DS individual was institutionalized, the amount was Dkr 383,271 (US$ 42,728 or Br.pounds 29,665). The average yearly price for a control was: Dkr 33,352 (US$ 3,718 or Br.pounds 2,581).
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D000293:Adolescent; D003156:Community Mental Health Services / Q000191:economics*; D003362:Cost-Benefit Analysis; D003718:Denmark; D004314:Down Syndrome / Q000191:economics* / Q000534:rehabilitation; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D012949:Social Work, Psychiatric / Q000191:economics*