There are numerous methods available for assessing patients with Alzheimer's disease (AD) or other forms of dementia … when assessing the impact of disease and intervention in dementia. The subjective nature of quality of life provides … and instruments that claim to measure quality of life in dementia. Literature for this review was identified by a thorough …

-sectional analyses of the Medicare Current Beneficiary Survey (MCBS) were performed. A nationally representative sample of Medicare … nature of these relationships has not been investigated solely in patients with dementia. The data from this study suggest a … strong relationship between functional impairment and healthcare costs, specifically in patients with dementia. Even IADL …

The prevalence of dementia, and in particular Alzheimer's disease, is expected to increase dramatically in the elderly … to slow down or even prevent progress of the disease, early detection of dementia is of the utmost importance. The … screening of patients at risk is the first step in the detection of dementia and should be undertaken at the primary healthcare …

Care for older people with dementia living in the community involves not only a physician and the patient, but also a … to the physician. Optimal patient care depends, in part, on inclusion of such caregivers in the dementia management team … management. Further research is required to assess the effect of efforts to include family caregivers as part of the dementia …

Background: The positive results of a randomised clinical trial of rivastigmine in patients with dementia associated … 3-12 mg/day in patients in whom mild to moderate dementia developed at least 2 years after they received a clinical …

fee paid by Medicare. First, we show that on pure efficiency grounds the optimal Medicare fee under balance billing is … zero. An active Medicare policy thus can only be justified when distributional concerns are accounted for. Extending the … lower if balance billing is prohibited. In particular, this is the case if the administrative costs of Medicare are large …

introduction of prescription drug coverage for older individuals via Medicare Part D. For policy makers who design such a market … Medicare Part D. We first analyze how well the hypothetical choice data predict willingness to pay and market shares at the …

We study the Medicare Part D prescription drug insurance program as a bellwether for designs of private, non … of administrative data on medical claims in Medicare Part D suggests that fewer than 25% of individuals enroll in plans … that are ex ante as good as the least cost plan specified by the Plan Finder tool made available to seniors by the Medicare …