OBJECTIVES: @entity303 draws on a variety of public and private resources. There is increasing pressure to define the cost components in this area to improve resource allocation and accountability. The aim of this study was to characterize frailty in a group of @entity73 community-dwelling elders and evaluate its relationship with cost and resource utilization. METHODS: We assessed a cross-sectional, convenient sample of 115 @entity73 @entity1 of age >55   years who attended the National Memory Clinic in St James' University Hospital, a Trinity College-affiliated hospital in Dublin, Ireland. @entity1 had a clinical diagnosis of possible @entity195 or mild @entity73 . Frailty was measured using the biological syndrome model. Formal health and social care costs and daily informal caregiving costs were collected and the total costs of care estimated by applying the appropriate unit cost estimate for each resource activity. Stepwise regression models were constructed to establish the factors associated with increased care costs. RESULTS: @entity1 @entity734 , frailty and number of co-morbid illnesses explained 43.3% of the variance in observed daily informal care costs in @entity303 and @entity73 @entity1 . @entity734 was the sole factor retained in an optimal model explaining 19% of the variance in formal health and social care costs. CONCLUSION: Frailty retained a strong association with daily informal care costs even in the context of other known risk factors for increasing care costs. Interventions that reduce frailty as well as @entity1 @entity734 on others may be associated with cost savings. Copyright    2015 John Wiley _ Sons, Ltd.

Frailty: a costly phenomenon in caring for elders with XXXX .

@entity1 :: ('9606', 'Species') :: ['patients', 'patient', 'Participants', 'Patient'] @entity303 :: ('MESH:D003704', 'Disease') :: ['Dementia', 'dementia'] @entity73 :: ('MESH:D003072', 'Disease') :: ['cognitively impaired', 'cognitive impairment'] @entity195 :: ('MESH:D000544', 'Disease') :: ["Alzheimer's disease"] @entity734 :: ('MESH:D019966', 'Disease') :: ['dependence', 'Dependence']
@entity73 :: (MESH:D003072,Disease) :: ['cognitive impairment']
