Reports Summarize Dementia Study Results from Osaka University (Dementia Prevention: The Cost-effectiveness of Prevention Services in Japanese Long-term Care System): Neurodegenerative Diseases and Conditions – Dementia

2024 JAN 04 (NewsRx) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Hospital & Nursing Home Daily -- New study results on dementia have been published. According to news reporting from Osaka, Japan, by NewsRx journalists, research stated, “To analyze the cost-effectiveness of prevention services (Named “Support” in Japanese official documents) in Japanese Long-Term Care Insurance system, which draws data from a large volume of 10-year database in Osaka Prefecture.”

Our news reporters obtained a quote from the research from Osaka University: “We design an approach to estimate cost-effective prices using aggregate data including costs of dementia in 10 years, time of dementia first diagnosed, changes of care levels, and quality of life. Measurements: The outcomes were average annual expenditure per unit of services. In higher risk groups of dementia, prevention services delaying cognitive decline and enhancing quality of life were cost effective at $206 per individual. However, this cost-effectiveness will wear off as symptoms worsen and the care levels increase.”

According to the news editors, the research concluded: “Prevention services from Long-Term Care Insurance system are possibly to be cost-effective, but this cost benefit is not long-term .”

For more information on this research see: Dementia Prevention: The Cost-effectiveness of Prevention Services in Japanese Long-term Care System. Innovation in Aging, 2023,7(Supplement_1). (Innovation in Aging - https://academic.oup.com/innovateage). The publisher for Innovation in Aging is Oxford University Press (OUP).

A free version of this journal article is available at https://doi.org/10.1093/geroni/igad104.3263.

Our news journalists report that more information may be obtained by contacting Xujing Hu, Osaka University, Suita, Osaka, Japan. Additional authors for this research include Yunfan Wu, Miyae Yamakawa, Reiko Kanaya.

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