• DOI:10.1017/S1041610206003784
Corpus ID: 41247271

Economic impact of dementia in developing countries: an evaluation of costs of Alzheimer-type dementia in Argentina.

@article{Allegri2007EconomicIO,
  title={Economic impact of dementia in developing countries: an evaluation of costs of Alzheimer-type dementia in Argentina.},
  author={Ricardo Francisco Allegri and Judith Butman and Ra{\'u}l Luciano Arizaga and Gerardo Machnicki and Cecilia M. Serrano and Fernando Emilio Taragano and Diego Sarasola and Leandro Lo{\~n}},
  journal={International psychogeriatrics},
  year={2007},
  volume={19 4},
  pages={
          705-18
        }
}

Ricardo Francisco Allegri, Judith Butman, +5 authors Leandro Loñ

Published 2007

Medicine

International psychogeriatrics

BACKGROUND There is no previous information about economic costs of Alzheimer's disease (AD) in South America. The objective of this study was to evaluate the costs of AD in Argentina. METHODS Eighty community-dwelling patients, 20 institutionalized AD patients and their respective primary caregivers, and 25 healthy elderly subjects participated in this study. The cognitive and neuropsychiatric impairments and severity of dementia were assessed with the Mini-mental State Examination… CONTINUE READING

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