METHODS USED TO IDENTIFY AND MEASURE RESOURCE USE IN ECONOMIC EVALUATIONS: A SYSTEMATIC REVIEW OF QUESTIONNAIRES FOR OLDER PEOPLE

This paper presents the findings of a systematic review of full or partial economic evaluations that included questions to service users or their carers to elicit information on the types, amounts or costs of community-based formal social care support provided to people 65 years and older. We have found that studies seldom report use of published validated questions for eliciting information from older people in the UK about their use of formal...