End-of-life care places greater financial burden on people with dementia
Health care and caregiving costs for people with dementia in the final five years of life are more expensive than people with cancer, heart disease and other illnesses, new research suggests. The study found that costs such as government spending, private insurance and out-of-pocket expenditures for people with dementia were 57 percent greater than those associated with death from other conditions.
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