Economic Implications of Dementia in the United States: Assessing the Relationship Between Direct Medical Spending and Informal Care Costs
Amy Lastuka, Michael Breshock, Joseph L Dieleman · 2025
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Amy Lastuka, Michael Breshock, and Joseph Dieleman measured in 2025 the full societal cost of dementia in the United States. Beyond medical bills, families give huge amounts of unpaid care, which carries its own cost. The team combined prior estimates of medical spending with new estimates of informal care from three large surveys.
They counted unpaid care in two ways: what it would cost to hire help, and the wages carers give up. By the first count, the yearly cost per person with dementia came to roughly sixty thousand dollars. The share due to unpaid care varied a lot by state. Where medical spending was high, unpaid care costs tended to be lower, hinting that the two can stand in for each other.
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| CREATOR | Amy Lastuka, Michael Breshock, Joseph L Dieleman |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2025 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 2 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |