Blog post - economic costs of dementia

A new blog post describes an NIA-funded study on the economic costs of caring for people with dementia, and research opportunities on this topic. The NIA program officer for the grant writes about why the new study drew so much attention. He details the dataset used, a resource that is also available to other scientists for secondary analyses. He also points to an open funding opportunity on estimating dementia care costs that might be of interest to researchers seeking funding.

Read the full blog post: Estimating economic costs of dementia

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