Personal wealth is associated with health care costs in people with Alzheimer’s disease
Finland has a strong public health care system; nevertheless, personal wealth is associated with the costs of hospital care and medication in people with Alzheimer’s disease. Higher levels of wealth were associated with greater costs of hospital care before the diagnosis, a new study from the University of Eastern Finland shows. The study included 70,531 persons diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease between 2005 and 2011, whose medication costs and costs of hospital care were compiled from Finland’s national registers. The researchers examined the costs over a seven-year period, which