Can I read Costs and resource use of community-dwelling patients with Alzheimer’s disease in Japan: 18-month results from the GERAS-J study on EtoBox?

Costs and resource use of community-dwelling patients with Alzheimer’s disease in Japan: 18-month results from the GERAS-J study by Miharu Nakanishi; Ataru Igarashi; Kaname Ueda; Alan J. M. Brnabic; Taka Matsumura; Kenichi Meguro; Masahito Yamada; Masaru Mimura; Heii Arai; Tamas Treuer is a Medicine article available to read on EtoBox.

What is Costs and resource use of community-dwelling patients with Alzheimer’s disease in Japan: 18-month results from the GERAS-J study about?

## Objective: To determine the longitudinal societal costs and burden of community-dwelling patients with alzheimer's disease (ad) and their caregivers in japan. ## Methods: Geras-j was an 18-month, prospective, longitudinal, observational study. using the mini-mental state examination (mmse), patients routinely visiting memory clinics were stratified into groups based on ad severity at baseline (mild, moderate, and moderately severe/severe [ms/s]). healthcare resource utilization and caregiver burden were assessed using the resource utilization in dementia and zarit "caregiver" burden interview questionnaires, respectively. total monthly societal costs were estimated using japan-specific unit costs of services and products (patient direct healthcare use, patient social care use, and informal caregiving time). ## Results: Overall, 553 patients (156 mild; 209 moderate; 188 ms/s) were enrolled. mmse scores declined (1.73, 1.38, and 0.95 points for the mild, moderate, and ms/s ad groups, respectively) and caregiver burden and resource utilization increased over 18 months in each of the ad severity groups. cumulative total societal costs per patient over 18 months were 3.1, 3.8, and 5.

Who reads Costs and resource use of community-dwelling patients with Alzheimer’s disease in Japan: 18-month results from the GERAS-J study?

Author

Miharu Nakanishi; Ataru Igarashi; Kaname Ueda; Alan J. M. Brnabic; Taka Matsumura; Kenichi Meguro; Masahito Yamada; Masaru Mimura; Heii Arai; Tamas Treuer

Publisher

Informa UK Limited

Published

2021

Language

EN

Field

Medicine (Health Sciences)