Putting a Dollar Value on Informal Care Time Provided to People Living With Dementia: A Discrete Choice Experiment.
Value Health
; 27(9): 1251-1260, 2024 Sep.
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ABSTRACT
OBJECTIVES:
Informal care represents a significant cost driver in dementia but monetizing informal care hours to inform cost-of-illness or economic evaluation studies remains a challenge. This study aimed to use a discrete choice experiment to estimate the value of informal care time provided to people with dementia in Australia accounting for positive and negative impacts of caregiving.METHODS:
Attributes and levels were derived from a literature review, interviews with carers, and advice received from an advisory group. Attributes included 4 positive and negative caregiving experiences, in addition to "hours of care provided" and the "monetary compensation from the government." A D-efficient design was constructed with 2 generic alternatives that represented hypothetical informal caregiving situations. The discrete choice experiment survey was administered online to a representative sample of the Australian general population and a group of informal carers of people with dementia. The willingness to accept estimates were calculated for the 2 samples separately using the mixed logit model in the willingness to pay space.RESULTS:
Based on 700 respondents included in the analysis (n = 488 general public, n = 212 informal carers), the mean willingness to accept for an additional hour of informal care, corrected for the positive and negative impacts of informal care, was $21 (95% CI 18-23) for the general public and $20 (95% CI 16-25) for the informal carers sample.CONCLUSION:
The estimates generated in this study can be used to inform future cost-of-illness studies and economic evaluations, ensuring that informal care time is considered in future policy and funding decisions.Palabras clave
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01-internacional
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MEDLINE
Asunto principal:
Cuidadores
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Demencia
Límite:
Adult
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Aged
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Aged80
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Female
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Humans
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Male
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Middle aged
País/Región como asunto:
Oceania
Idioma:
En
Revista:
Value Health
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Value health
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Value in health
Asunto de la revista:
FARMACOLOGIA
Año:
2024
Tipo del documento:
Article