Integrating Estimates of the Social and Individual Costs of Caregiving into Dementia Treatment Trials

A variety of new treatments for dementia are awaiting or undergoing randomized clinical trails. These trials focus on outcomes such as changes in cognitive function, physical function, or amyloid plaques. What is quite important and is too often missing from these trials are estimates of the impact...

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Autor principal: Phillips, Charles D.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Libertas Academica 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4786098/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26997869
http://dx.doi.org/10.4137/HSI.S39433
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description A variety of new treatments for dementia are awaiting or undergoing randomized clinical trails. These trials focus on outcomes such as changes in cognitive function, physical function, or amyloid plaques. What is quite important and is too often missing from these trials are estimates of the impact of these treatments on the social and individual costs of providing care for those facing dementia. Until outcomes such as family caregiver time and caregiver burden are included in trails of dementia treatments, the picture of how well these treatments work will be distressingly incomplete.
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spelling pubmed-47860982016-03-19 Integrating Estimates of the Social and Individual Costs of Caregiving into Dementia Treatment Trials Phillips, Charles D. Health Serv Insights Editorial A variety of new treatments for dementia are awaiting or undergoing randomized clinical trails. These trials focus on outcomes such as changes in cognitive function, physical function, or amyloid plaques. What is quite important and is too often missing from these trials are estimates of the impact of these treatments on the social and individual costs of providing care for those facing dementia. Until outcomes such as family caregiver time and caregiver burden are included in trails of dementia treatments, the picture of how well these treatments work will be distressingly incomplete. Libertas Academica 2016-03-09 /pmc/articles/PMC4786098/ /pubmed/26997869 http://dx.doi.org/10.4137/HSI.S39433 Text en © 2016 the author(s), publisher and licensee Libertas Academica Ltd. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons CC-BY-NC 3.0 License.
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