Financing healthcare systems
Providing services for people with dementia is costly and governments in both NI and ROI are faced with questions about how best to use limited resources in ways that are equitable and cost-effective to finance healthcare systems and support people with dementia and their family carers. Alzheimer associations have been at the forefront of debates on the financing of healthcare systems, and a number of their publications are included below. This section also includes an economic analysis of the cost of care for people with dementia on the boundary between home care and residential care within the HSE & Genio Dementia Programme, and a paper documenting the results of a national survey undertaken by the Dementia Services and Information Development Centre (DSIDC) to gather information on specialist care units for people with dementia.