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The societal costs of dementia in Sweden 2012 – relevance and methodological challenges in valuing informal care

Overview of attention for article published in Alzheimer's Research & Therapy, November 2016
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Title
The societal costs of dementia in Sweden 2012 – relevance and methodological challenges in valuing informal care
Published in
Alzheimer's Research & Therapy, November 2016
DOI 10.1186/s13195-016-0215-9
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Authors

Anders Wimo, Linus Jönsson, Laura Fratiglioni, Per Olof Sandman, Anders Gustavsson, Anders Sköldunger, Lennarth Johansson

Abstract

In this study, we sought to estimate the societal cost of illness in dementia in Sweden in 2012 using different costing approaches to highlight methodological issues. We conducted a prevalence-based cost-of-illness study with a societal perspective. The societal costs of dementia in Sweden in 2012 were SEK 62.9 billion (approximately €7.2 billion, approximately US$9.0 billion) or SEK 398,000 per person with dementia (approximately €45,000, approximately US$57,000). By far the most important cost item is the cost of institutional care: about 60% of the costs. In the sensitivity analysis, different quantification and costing approaches for informal care resulted in a great variation in the total societal cost, ranging from SEK 60 billion (€6.8 billion, US$8.6 billion) to SEK 124 billion (€14.1 billion, US$17.8 billion). The societal costs of dementia are very high. The cost per person with dementia has decreased somewhat, mainly because of de-institutionalisation. The majority of the costs occur in the social care sector, but the costing of informal care is crucial for the cost estimates.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Unknown 52 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 10 19%
Researcher 8 15%
Student > Ph. D. Student 7 13%
Student > Bachelor 5 10%
Student > Postgraduate 3 6%
Other 10 19%
Unknown 9 17%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 11 21%
Economics, Econometrics and Finance 4 8%
Psychology 4 8%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 3 6%
Nursing and Health Professions 3 6%
Other 13 25%
Unknown 14 27%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 3. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 02 September 2021.
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#7,521,897
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#1,060
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#137,823
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Outputs of similar age from Alzheimer's Research & Therapy
#16
of 17 outputs
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