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Medicare Expenditures Associated With Hospital and Emergency Department Use Among Beneficiaries With Dementia.
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18 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
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- Association of Dementia Severity at Diagnosis With Health Care Utilization and Costs Around the Time of Incident Diagnosis.Innovation in aging · 2025Article
- Racial and Ethnic Disparities in the Monetary Value of Informal Caregiving for Non-Institutionalized People Living With Dementia.Journal of aging and health · 2024Article
- Cost of care pathways before and after appropriate and inappropriate transfers to the emergency department among nursing home residents: results from the FINE study.BMC geriatrics · 2024Observational
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- Public spending on acute and long-term care for Alzheimer's disease and related dementias.Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association · 2023Article
- The costs of treating all-cause dementia among American Indians and Alaska native adults who access services through the Indian Health Service and Tribal health programs.Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association · 2022Article
- Adapting Emergency Care for Persons Living With Dementia: Results of the Geriatric Emergency Care Applied Research Network Scoping Review and Consensus Conference.Journal of the American Medical Directors Association · 2022Article
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- Health Care Costs of Alzheimer's and Related Dementias Within a Medicare Managed Care Provider.Medical care · 2020Article
- Acute Healthcare Utilization of a Multidisciplinary Neurocognitive Dementia Patient Cohort.Journal of clinical neurology (Seoul, Korea) · 2020Article
- 30-Day Emergency Department Revisit Rates among Older Adults with Documented Dementia.Journal of the American Geriatrics Society · 2019Observational
- High-Intensity Telemedicine Reduces Emergency Department Use by Older Adults With Dementia in Senior Living Communities.Journal of the American Medical Directors Association · 2019Article
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Abstract
Understanding expenditure patterns for hospital and emergency department (ED) use among individuals with dementia is crucial to controlling Medicare spending. We analyzed Health and Retirement Study data and Medicare claims, stratified by beneficiaries' residence and proximity to death, to estimate Medicare expenditures for all-cause and potentially avoidable hospitalizations and ED visits. Analysis was limited to the Medicare fee-for-service population age 65 and older. Compared with people without dementia, community residents with dementia had higher average expenditures for hospital and ED services; nursing home residents with dementia had lower average expenditures for all-cause hospitalizations. Decedents with dementia had lower expenditures than those without dementia in the last year of life. Medicare expenditures for individuals with and without dementia vary by residential setting and proximity to death. Results highlight the importance of addressing the needs specific to the population with dementia. There are many initiatives to reduce hospital admissions, but few focus on people with dementia.
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