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Cost-of-illness study in a retrospective cohort of patients with dementia in Lima, Peru : Custo de doença em um estudo coorte retrospectivo de pacientes com demência em Lima, Peru
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Autores:
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Custodio, Nilton ;
Lira, David ;
Herrera-Perez, Eder ;
Del Prado, Liza Nunez ;
Parodi, Jose ;
Guevara-Silva, Erik ;
Castro-Suarez, Sheila ;
Montesinos, Rosa
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Associação Neurologia Cognitiva e do Comportamento, 2019-02-06T14:52:18Z
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info:eu-repo/semantics/restrictedAccess
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/deed.es
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Dementia is a major cause of dependency and disability among older persons, and imposes huge economic burdens. Only a few cost-of-illness studies for dementia have been carried out in middle and low-income countries. Objective: The aim of this study was to analyze costs of dementia in demented patients of a private clinic in Lima, Peru. Methods: We performed a retrospective, cohort, 3-month study by extracting information from medical records of demented patients to assess the use of both healthcare and non-healthcare resources. The total costs of the disease were broken down into direct (medical and social care costs) and indirect costs (informal care costs). Results: In 136 outpatients, we observed that while half of non-demented patients had total care costs of less than US$ 23 over three months, demented patients had costs of US$ 1500 or over (and more than US$ 1860 for frontotemporal dementia). In our study, the monthly cost of a demented patient (US$ 570) was 2.5 times higher than the minimum wage (legal minimum monthly wage in Peru for 2011: US$ 222.22). Conclusion: Dementia constitutes a socioeconomic problem even in developing countries, since patients involve high healthcare and non-healthcare costs, with the costs being especially high for the patient's family.
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En línea:
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http://doi.org/10.1590/S1980-57642015DN91000006
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