Cost of illness due to dementia in Sweden

A Wimo; G Karlsson; P O Sandman; L Corder; B Winblad

doi:10.1002/(sici)1099-1166(199708)12:8<857::aid-gps653>3.0.co;2-5

Cost of illness due to dementia in Sweden

Int J Geriatr Psychiatry. 1997 Aug;12(8):857-61. doi: 10.1002/(sici)1099-1166(199708)12:8<857::aid-gps653>3.0.co;2-5.

Authors

A Wimo¹, G Karlsson, P O Sandman, L Corder, B Winblad

Affiliation

¹ Department of Geriatric Medicine, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden. [email protected]

PMID: 9283931
DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1099-1166(199708)12:8<857::aid-gps653>3.0.co;2-5

Abstract

The gross cost of illness due to dementia was estimated to be SEK30.7 billion in 1991 while the net cost was estimated to be SEK20 billion. The sensitivity analysis showed a variation between SEK20 billion and SEK36 billion in 1991.

MeSH terms

Aged
Cost of Illness*
Dementia / economics*
Dementia / epidemiology
Female
Health Care Costs / statistics & numerical data*
Health Care Costs / trends
Humans
Male
Sweden / epidemiology