Despite the broad acceptance of the project a limited guideline-conformity as well as the diagnostic uncertainty suggests that the implemented training is only a first step towards GP guided dementia care. To extend GPs guided dementia care and to improve the quality of GPs dementia diagnostics and therapy sensitization of more GPs for active dementia care as well as supervised practical training will be necessary.

The redistribution of expenses from inpatient to outpatient care including integrated health care approaches would result in more cost-effective mental health care.

If we consider the systematics of hospital bed financing, the reduction of individual treatment costs does not imply reduction of AOK total payments for clinical treatment of mentally ill on a short-term basis. Hence, maintenance of this kind of outpatient treatment is strongly recommended.