title: [Suicidality due to inability to pay for care despite home ownership].
abstract: A 78-year old-widow lives squalidly in her own apartment. The examination of her cognitive functions reveals a moderate dementia. The needed home care service can not be financed by her small income. By increase of her mortgage a life annuity can be acquired to guaranty regular payment of her interests. This decreases her revenue below the threshold for federal additions to social security rent. This enables to improve the financial health of the demented person and makes regular home care services possible.
authors.affiliation: Stadtärztlicher Dienst Zürich. wettstein.albert@zuerich.ch
authors.forename: Albert
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Wettstein
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D000544:Alzheimer Disease / Q000175:diagnosis*; D005260:Female; D005382:Financing, Personal / Q000191:economics; D006699:Home Care Services / Q000191:economics*; D006792:House Calls; D006798:Housing / Q000191:economics*; D006801:Humans; D008609:Mental Status Schedule; D010067:Ownership / Q000191:economics*; D012648:Self Care; D012934:Social Isolation; D012943:Social Security / Q000191:economics; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors; D013405:Suicide / Q000523:psychology; D017805:Widowhood; D000092864:Suicide Prevention