Economic Evaluation in Dementia Research

Rhiannon Tudor Edwards is Professor of Health Economics and the Founding Director of Health Economics Research at Bangor University, UK. Martin Knapp is Professor of Social Policy and Director of the Personal Social Services Research Unit at the London School of Economics, UK. Anders Wimo is Adjunct Professor in Geriatric General Medicine in the Department of Neurobiology, Care Science and Society, Karolinska Insitute, Sweden. Bengt Winblad is Professor and Co-Director of the Aging Research Center, Karolinska Institute, Sweden. Linus Jonsson is a Lecturer in the Department of Neurobiology, Care Science and Society, Karolinska Insitute, Sweden.

Foreword 1. Introduction 2. Measuring Costs in Economic Evaluation of Interventions Relating to Dementia Care 3. Measuring Outcomes in Economic Evaluation of Interventions Relating to Dementia Care 4. Bringing Large Datasets Together 5. Modelling the Economic Consequences of Dementia 6. Case Study: Economic Evaluation of a Pharmacological Intervention for People with Dementia 7. Case Study: Economic Evaluation of a Psychosocial Intervention for People with Dementia and their Carers 8. Case Study: Economic Evaluation of an Intervention to Support Family Carers 9. Case Study: Economic Evaluation of an Intervention to Support Care Home Staff Looking After People with Dementia 10. Thinking Wider: Economic Evaluation and International Comparisons of Dementia Care 11. Thinking Wider: The Use of Qualitative Methods as Part of Economic Evaluation of Interventions Related to Dementia Care 12. Future Research Agenda for Health Economics Applied to Dementia Care