Which factors increase informal care hours and societal costs among caregivers of people with dementia? A systematic review of Resource Utilization in Dementia (RUD)

Table 1 Review inclusion criteria

	Inclusion	Exclusion
Setting	Community-dwelling, nursing home
Age	Participants ≥65 years
Study outcome	RUD in terms of hours per month, days per month, and cost as primary or secondary outcome	Informal care hours not based on RUD. Research papers with a nursing home setting which did not assess informal care
RUD versions	Original RUD, RUD-FOCA, RUD Lite
Type of analyses	RCT design, observational analyses, economic evaluations	Descriptive
Type of paper	Research papers with the following design: longitudinal, cross-sectional, cross-country, economic evaluations	Review, editorial, conference papers
Geography	OECD countries
Year	2000–2020

ISSN: 2191-1991