Health Care Utilization and Cost Outcomes of a Comprehensive Dementia Care Program for Medicare Beneficiaries

Importance

An estimated 4 to 5 million Americans have Alzheimer disease or another dementia.

Objective

To determine the health care utilization and cost outcomes of a comprehensive dementia care program for Medicare fee-for-service beneficiaries.

Design, Setting, and Participants

In this case-control study, we used a quasiexperimental design to compare health care utilization and costs for 1083 Medicare fee-for-service...