Rao & Bharat (2013) conducted a study examining the cost of dementia care in India. The authors found that the annual household cost of dementia care ranged from INR 45,600 to INR 2,02,450 in urban areas and INR 20,300 and INR 66,025 in rural areas, with disease severity significantly influencing these costs. Medication, consultation, and hospitalisation were combined as medical costs and transportation, paid residential care or day care included as care, and remaining costs (informal caregiving and productivity loss of the person with dementia) were summarised under informal costs (Rao & Bharat, 2013). More than half of the total cost is attributed towards informal care, as per the study. Of the total costs, around two-third (60.3%) is spent on informal care, one-fourth (26.1%) on care related costs and the rest 13.6% is spent on medical costs (Rao & Bharat, 2013). The authors identified that with respect to disease severity, the greater the severity of the disease, the lower is the expenditure on medical costs and the greater is the expenditure on care related costs (Rao & Bharat, 2013).

References:

Rao, G., & Bharath, S. (2013). Cost of dementia care in India: Delusion or reality? Indian Journal of Public Health, 57(2), 71. https://doi.org/10.4103/0019-557X.114986