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Percent of Medicare Beneficiaries Age 65+ with Alzheimer’s Disease and Other Dementias Who Had Specified Coexisting Medical Conditions (1999)
Bynum J, Rabins P, Weller W, Niefeld M, et al. The Relationship Between a Dementia Diagnosis, Chronic Illness, Medicare Expenditures, and Hospital Use. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society. 2004; 52: 187-194. http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/links/doi/10.1111/j.1532-5415.2004.52054.x/abs/