A Simple Method for Simulating Dementia Onset and Death within an Existing Demographic Model.

Medical Decision Making : an International Journal of the Society for Medical Decision Making
Carolyn M RutterMargaret M Weden

Abstract

Dementia is a common disease that has an impact on both the affected individual and family members who provide caregiving. Simulation models can assist in setting policy that anticipates public health needs by predicting the demand for and availability of care. We developed a relatively simple method for simulating the onset of dementia that can be used in combination with an existing microsimulation model. We started with Socsim, a demographic microsimulation model that simulates a population with family kinship networks. We simulated dementia in the Socsim population by simulating the number of individuals diagnosed with dementia in their lifetime and the ages of onset and death from dementia for each of these dementia cases. We then matched dementia cases to the simulated population based on age at death, so for each individual, we simulate whether they develop dementia and, if so, their age at onset. This approach simulates dementia onset but does not alter the demographic model's simulated age of death. We selected model dementia parameters so that the combined Socsim-Dementia model reproduces published dementia prevalence rates and survival times after diagnosis. Adding simulation of dementia to a kinship network model en...Continue Reading

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