title: [Financing Regional Dementia Networks in Germany: Determinants of Sustainable Healthcare Networks].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  Analysis of practice-based financing concepts in German dementia networks (DN); Provision of sustainable financing structures and their determinants in DN.
  
  
  METHODS
  Qualitative expert interviews with leaders of 13 DN were conducted. A semi-structured interview guide was used to analyse four main topics: Finance-related organization, cost, sources of funding and financial sustainability.
  
  
  RESULTS
  DN were primarily financed by membership fees, earnings of services provided, public funds and payments by municipalities or health care providers. 63% of the DN reported a financial sustainability. Funds to support the interpersonal expanding, a mix of internal and external financing sources and investments of the municipality were determinants of a sustainable financing. Overall, DN in rural areas seemed to be disadvantaged due to a lack of potential linkable service providers.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  DN in urban regions are more likely able to gather sustainable funding resources. A minimum funding of 50.000 €/year for human resources coordinating the DN, seems to be a threshold for a sustainable DN.
authors.affiliation: Deutsches Zentrum für Neurodegenerative Erkrankungen e. V. (DZNE) Standort Rostock/Greifswald, AG Translationale Versorgungsforschung, Greifswald.
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Michalowsky
authors.affiliation: Deutsches Zentrum für Neurodegenerative Erkrankungen e. V. (DZNE) Standort Rostock/Greifswald, AG Interventionelle Versorgungsforschung, Greifswald.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Wübbeler
authors.affiliation: Deutsches Zentrum für Neurodegenerative Erkrankungen e. V. (DZNE) Standort Rostock/Greifswald, AG Interventionelle Versorgungsforschung, Greifswald.
authors.forename: J R
authors.initials: JR
authors.lastname: Thyrian
authors.affiliation: Deutsches Zentrum für Neurodegenerative Erkrankungen e. V. (DZNE) Standort Witten, AG Versorgungsstrukturen, Witten.
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Holle
authors.affiliation: Universität Bremen, Institut für Public Health und Pflegeforschung, Abteilung 7: Pflegewissenschaftliche Versorgungsforschung, Bremen.
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Gräske
authors.affiliation: Institut für angewandte Sozialwissenschaften (IfaS), Duale Hochschule Baden-Württemberg Stuttgart, Stuttgart.
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Schäfer-Walkmann
authors.affiliation: Ernst-Moritz-Arndt-Universität Greifswald, Lehrstuhl für Allgemeine Betriebswirtschaftslehre und Gesundheitsmanagement, Greifswald.
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Fleßa
authors.affiliation: Deutsches Zentrum für Neurodegenerative Erkrankungen e. V. (DZNE) Standort Rostock/Greifswald, AG Translationale Versorgungsforschung, Greifswald.|Institut für Community Medicine, Abt. Versorgungsepidemiologie und Community Health, Greifswald.
authors.forename: W
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Hoffmann
mesh_terms: D003695:Delivery of Health Care; D003704:Dementia; D005249:Fees and Charges; D005380:Financing, Government; D005858:Germany; D017048:Health Care Costs; D005102:Health Expenditures; D006801:Humans