title: MODEM: A comprehensive approach to modelling outcome and costs impacts of interventions for dementia. Protocol paper.
abstract: The MODEM project (A comprehensive approach to MODelling outcome and costs impacts of interventions for DEMentia) explores how changes in arrangements for the future treatment and care of people living with dementia, and support for family and other unpaid carers, could result in better outcomes and more efficient use of resources.
  
  
  
  MODEM starts with a systematic mapping of the literature on effective and (potentially) cost-effective interventions in dementia care. Those findings, as well as data from a cohort, will then be used to model the quality of life and cost impacts of making these evidence-based interventions more widely available in England over the period from now to 2040. Modelling will use a suite of models, combining microsimulation and macrosimulation methods, modelling the costs and outcomes of care, both for an individual over the life-course from the point of dementia diagnosis, and for individuals and England as a whole in a particular year. Project outputs will include an online Dementia Evidence Toolkit, making evidence summaries and a literature database available free to anyone, papers in academic journals and other written outputs, and a MODEM Legacy Model, which will enable local commissioners of services to apply the model to their own populations.
  
  
  
  Modelling the effects of evidence-based cost-effective interventions and making this information widely available has the potential to improve the health and quality of life both of people with dementia and their carers, while ensuring that resources are used efficiently.
authors.affiliation: Personal Social Services Research Unit, London School of Economics and Political Science, London, UK. a.comas@lse.ac.uk.
authors.forename: Adelina
authors.identifier: 0000-0002-9860-9062
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Comas-Herrera
authors.affiliation: Personal Social Services Research Unit, London School of Economics and Political Science, London, UK.
authors.forename: Martin
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Knapp
authors.affiliation: Personal Social Services Research Unit, London School of Economics and Political Science, London, UK.
authors.forename: Raphael
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Wittenberg
authors.affiliation: Centre for Dementia Studies at the Brighton and Sussex Medical School, University of Sussex, Falmer, Brighton, UK.
authors.forename: Sube
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Banerjee
authors.affiliation: Faculty of Health Sciences at the University of Southampton, Southampton, UK.
authors.forename: Ann
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Bowling
authors.affiliation: Department of Social Policy at the London School of Economics and Social Science, London, UK.
authors.forename: Emily
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Grundy
authors.affiliation: Institute for Ageing and Health, Newcastle University, Newcastle, UK.
authors.forename: Carol
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Jagger
authors.affiliation: Centre for Dementia Studies at the Brighton and Sussex Medical School, University of Sussex, Falmer, Brighton, UK.
authors.forename: Nicolas
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Farina
authors.affiliation: Personal Social Services Research Unit, London School of Economics and Political Science, London, UK.
authors.forename: Daniel
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Lombard
authors.affiliation: Personal Social Services Research Unit, London School of Economics and Political Science, London, UK.
authors.forename: Klara
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Lorenz
authors.affiliation: Personal Social Services Research Unit, London School of Economics and Political Science, London, UK.
authors.forename: David
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: McDaid
mesh_terms: D017028:Caregivers / Q000191:economics / Q000523:psychology; D003362:Cost-Benefit Analysis; D003704:Dementia / Q000191:economics* / Q000628:therapy; D004739:England; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D018803:Models, Economic; D011788:Quality of Life
keywords: Carers; Cost-effectiveness; Costs; Dementia; Economics; Microsimulation model; Outcomes; Social care; Treatments