NIH-funded study examines medical, care costs in last five years of life
Bethesda, Maryland–(ENEWSPF)–October 27, 2015. In the last five years of life, total health care spending for people with dementia was more than a quarter-million dollars per person, some 57 percent greater than costs associated with death from other diseases, including cancer and heart disease. The new analysis, appearing in the Oct. 27, 2015, online issue of the Annals of Internal Medicine, estimates that…
