Is a syndrome, and it is common to speak both of types of dementia and causes of dementia. Type and cause both represent disease or diagnosis. The most common type of dementia is the Alzheimer’s disease (AD). Lewy body dementia (LBD) is also quite frequently occurring, as is vascular dementia. Vascular dementia in turn is classified based on the underlying vascular disease, so there is a further differentiation, e.g. between post-stroke dementia, multi-infarct dementia and subcortical vascular dementia.
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Elderly Care Cost Control using Observation, Assessment, and Decision-Making
Patrik Eklund (Umeå University, Sweden)
Copyright: © 2013
|Pages: 10
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-3986-7.ch016
Abstract
Municipal and regional best practices for strategic planning and management of ageing is achieved by developing accurate socio-economic modelling tools based on rigorous design of information and processes. Demographic models enable analysis and prediction of demographic change, and socio-economic modelling, based on ageing information and process design, is sensitive and specific in particular concerning variables related to demographic change. Service forms based on observation, assessment, and decision-making are typically used in home care, adult day care centres, residential care, nursing homes, and/or wards. The suggested approach to socio-economic modelling-based strategic planning is both customer-centric with respect to information and process design as well as care-centric with respect to care management.