Melanie Luppa

TL;DR: Findings suggested that predictors of NHP are mainly based on underlying cognitive and/or functional impairment, and associated lack of support and assistance in daily living, and the methodical quality of studies needs improvement.

TL;DR: It is evident that latest life depression is common, particularly focusing on age- and gender-specific rates across the latest-life age groups, and sampling strategies for the old age study populations should be addressed more thoroughly in future research.

TL;DR: This systematic literature review identified and summarized 35 studies that investigated the relationship between multiple chronic conditions (MCCs) and health care utilization outcomes (i.e. physician use, hospital use, medication use) andhealth care cost outcomes (medication costs, out-of-pocket costs, total health care costs) for elderly general populations.

TL;DR: Depression is associated with a high economic burden and conducting COI-studies of depression along the line noted in the review could help provide the opportunity to expose differences in costs associated with different approaches to disease management.

TL;DR: The overview of research activities in this area showed a lack of methodological strength in a large part of identified studies, Nevertheless, a lot of well-examined and less highlighted predictors could be identified.