Table 2.

Characteristics of the included economic burden studies

Study	Region	Study design	Research perspective	Sample size	Dementia type	Mean age (SD)	Mean disease duration (SD)	Women (%)	Dementia severity classification criteria	Cost category (Mean)
Wang et al., 2008 [21]	Shanghai	Cross-sectional study	/	66	AD	74.0 (8.6)	2.7 (2.0)	65.2	MMSE	Direct medical costs (5,640 RMB) Direct non-medical costs (2,792 RMB) Indirect costs (10,568 RMB)
Liu et al., 2009 [22]	Shanghai	Cross-sectional study	/	63	AD VD Other	78.5 (6.7)	4.3 (2.9)	82.5	CDR	Medical care costs (8,545.2 RMB) Caregiver economic loss (5,360.4 RMB)
Wang et al., 2012 [23]	Taiyuan	Cross-sectional study	societal	168	AD	/	/	52.4	CDR	Direct medical costs (7,708 RMB) Direct non-medical costs (1,525 RMB) Indirect costs (6,516 RMB)
Deng et al., 2016 [24]	Guangzhou	Cross-sectional study	/	77	AD VD Other	77.3 (9.9)	5.1 (3.2)	63.6	/	Medical costs (9,902.4 RMB) Total nursing costs (10,766.4 RMB) Bed and meal costs (11,217.6 RMB) Transportation and lost work time costs (2,481.6 RMB)
Ku et al., 2016 [25]	Taiwan	Cross-sectional study	societal	231	AD VD DLB Uncertain	80.0 (6.9)	/	59.7	CDR or MMSE	Medical costs (82,489 NT$) Social care costs (93,552 NT$) Informal care costs (116,285 NT$)
Yan et al., 2019 [26]	Multi-center	Cross-sectional study	/	3046	AD	75.27 (9.40)	/	54.2	MMSE	Direct medical costs (/) Direct non-medical costs (/) Indirect costs (/) intangible costs (/)
Huang et al., 2020 [27]	Jiangxi	Cross-sectional study	/	76	AD	78.0 (5.0)	/	40.8	MMSE	Direct medical costs (11,920 RMB) Direct non-medical costs (4,121 RMB) Indirect costs (25,047 RMB)
Wu et al., 2020 [28]	Guangzhou	Cross-sectional study	health economics	157	AD VD MD FTD DLB Uncertain	76.8 (10.0)	/	59.2	CDR	Formal care costs (20,383 RMB) Informal care costs (45,402 RMB)

AD Alzheimer's disease, VD vascular dementia, DLB dementia with Lewy bodies, FTD frontotemporal lobe dementia, MD mixed dementia, SD standard deviation, CDR Clinical Dementia Rating scale, MMSE Mini-Mental State Examination