Research Briefs
Date of this Version
4-29-2019
Abstract
About 5.5 million older adults are living with dementia, a chronic, progressive disease characterized by severe cognitive decline. This number will likely grow significantly as the U.S. population ages, which has cost implications for the Medicare program. A full accounting of these additional expenses will help policymakers plan for them in their Medicare budgets. In this study, Norma Coe and colleagues examined survival and Medicare expenditures in older adults with and without dementia to estimate dementia’s incremental costs to Medicare in the five years after diagnosis.
Document Type
Brief
Number
53
See Original Study
License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-No Derivative Works 4.0 License.
Keywords
dementia, Medicare
View On LDI Website
https://ldi.upenn.edu/brief/five-year-cost-dementia-medicare
Date Posted: 05 June 2019