title: Not just about costs: the role of health economics in facilitating decision making in aged care.
abstract: This commentary discusses how health economic techniques can usefully be applied to inform clinical and policy decision making in the aged care sector from two perspectives: firstly, in relation to the measurement and valuation of the costs and benefits of new and existing health care technologies and modes of aged care service delivery and secondly, in relation to the facilitation of autonomy and patient choice.
authors.affiliation: Department of Rehabilitation and Aged Care, Flinders University, Adelaide, Australia. julie.ratcliffe@flinders.edu.au <julie.ratcliffe@flinders.edu.au>
authors.forename: Julie
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Ratcliffe
authors.forename: Kate
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Laver
authors.forename: Leah
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Couzner
authors.forename: Ian D
authors.initials: ID
authors.lastname: Cameron
authors.forename: Len
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Gray
authors.forename: Maria
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Crotty
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D003362:Cost-Benefit Analysis / Q000191:economics; D003657:Decision Making; D003695:Delivery of Health Care / Q000191:economics*; D004470:Economics, Medical; D005260:Female; D006291:Health Policy / Q000191:economics; D006299:Health Services for the Aged / Q000191:economics*; D006801:Humans; D011788:Quality of Life