Characterizing financial risk from out‐of‐pocket expenditures across dementia stages
Out-of-pocket health care costs increase with dementia severity. Twenty-one percent of people with severe dementia spend at least 40% of their income on health care. The risk of impoverishment from health care costs increases in severe dementia. Care needs, poor health, and nursing home residence may contribute to financial risk.
Authors
- Patricia G. Synnott (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3824-4380)
- Yingying Zhu (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4068-872X)
- Pei‐Jung Lin (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6707-4619)
- Angie Mae Rodday (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8671-3401)
Institutions
- Tufts Medical Center (US)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Alzheimer s & Dementia
- Published
- 2025-09-01
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1002/alz.70666
- Primary Topic
- Global Health Care Issues
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00
Funders
- U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
- National Institutes of Health
- National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences