Dates: 1 March 2014 - 30 September 2018
Funder: ESRC and NIHR Improving Dementia Care Initiative
Project description
As the UK population continues to age, the number of people with dementia will grow considerably over the coming decades. Continuing with today’s treatment, care and support arrangements is widely seen as unsustainable and unaffordable. A major challenge is how to provide high-quality treatment and support to these individuals at a cost seen as affordable.
The MODEM project is exploring how changes in arrangements for the future treatment and care of people living with dementia, and support for family and other unpaid carers, could result in better outcomes and more efficient use of resources.
Methods
The project started with a systematic mapping of the literature on effective and (potentially) cost-effective interventions in dementia care. Those findings, as well as data from a cohort, are being used to model the quality of life and cost impacts of making these evidence-based interventions more widely available in England over the period from now to 2040.
Modelling is using a suite of models, combining microsimulation and macrosimulation methods, modelling the costs and outcomes of care, both for an individual over the life-course from the point of dementia diagnosis, and for individuals and England as a whole in a particular year.
Outputs
The project has produced an online Dementia Evidence Toolkit, a searchable database with information on over 1433 research studies on interventions for people living with dementia and their carers, and summaries of the research findings for some of the main care and treatment interventions.
The project will produce a Legacy Model, which will enable local commissioners of services to apply the model to their own populations.
For further outputs visit MODEM the project website.
Key Publications
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MODEM: a comprehensive approach to modelling outcome and costs impacts of interventions for dementia. paper
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The case for investment in technology to manage the global costs of dementia
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Socio-economic position and subjective health and well-being among older people in Europe: a systematic narrative review
Further project information
Principal Investigator: Professor Martin Knapp
CPEC Research team: Adelina Comas-Herrera (Project Manager), Raphael Wittenberg, Margaret Dangoor (Public Involvement Manager), Josie Dixon, Bo Hu, Dr Derek King, Klara Lorenz, David McDaid, Amritpal Rehill
Collaborators: Professor Carol Jagger (lead), Newcastle University, Professor Sube Banerjee (lead) University of Sussex, Sally-Marie Bamford (lead)
Region: UK
Countries: England
Keywords: dementia, costs, outcomes, carers, people living with dementia
Contact
Adelina Comas-Herrera
a.comas@lse.ac.uk