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Table 1 Unit costs and total mean monthly costs per capita

From: Factors associated with costs of care in community-dwelling persons with dementia from a third party payer and societal perspective: a cross-sectional study

Resource

Unit

Unit cost (€)

(3rd PP*/pt co-payment**)

Total mean monthly cost per capita

(3rd PP*/pt co-payment**)

Total mean monthly cost

Range

User (%)f

Residential healthcare resources

 Hospitalization

Per 24 h

€ 690 (663/27)

€ 330 (317/13)

€ 0–11,851

74 (21%)

 Emergency room consults

Per 24 h

€ 41 (21/20)

€ 0.8 (0.4/0.4)

€ 0–21

34 (9.6%)

Community based healthcare resources

 Outpatient visits

  General practitioner

Per visit

€ 25 (21/4)

€ 25 (21/4)

€ 0–127

241 (67.9%)

  Geriatrician

Per visit

€ 40 (28/12)

€ 3 (2/1)

€ 0–40

24 (6.8%)

  Neurologist

Per visit

€ 58 (46/12)

€ 17 (14/4)

€ 0–232

101 (28.5%)

  Psychiatrist

Per visit

€ 48 (36/12)

€ 2 (2/1)

€ 0–191

9 (2.5%)

  Physiotherapist

Per visit

€ 22 (16/6)

€ 54 (40/14)

€ 0–1336

84 (23.7%)

  Occupational therapist

Per visit

€ 50 (38/13)

€ 8 (6/2)

€ 0–804

19 (5.4%)

  Psychologist

Per visit

€ 51 (0/51)

€ 4 (0/4)

€ 0–202

21 (5.9%)

  Other outpatient visits

Per visit

€ 38 (27/10)

€ 10 (0/10)

€ 0–451

50 (14.1%)

 Home help services

  Nurse visits

Per service

€ 9 (7/2)

€ 160 (120/40)

€ 0–1138

158 (44.5%)

  Home help visits

Per hour

€ 39 (33/6)

€ 296 (250/46)

€ 0–9346

87 (24.5%)

  Day sitting service

Per hour

€ 5 (3/2)

€ 48 (33/15)

€ 0–3460

46 (13%)

  Night-time care

Per hour

€ 5 (3/2)

€ 2 (2/1)

€ 0–144

12 (3.4%)

  In-home respite care

Per 24 h

€ 450 (c/65)

€ 1 (0/1)

€ 0–525

1 (0.3%)

 Accommodation

  Day care

Per visit/day

€ 64 (50/13)

€ 179 (141/38)

€ 0–1592

99 (27.9%)

  Host family respite care

Per 24 h

€ 95 (61/34)

€ 0.4 (0/0)

€ 0–142

1 (0.3%)

  Short-stay

Per 24 h

€ 87 (56/31)

€ 33 (21/12)

€ 0–1314

28 (7.9%)

Informal healthcare resources

 ADL tasks

  Employable caregiversa

Per hour

€ 21

€ 154d

€ 0–3034

80 (22.54%)

  Non-employable caregiversb

Per hour

€ 7

€ 90d

€ 0–1564

131 (36.90%)

 IADL tasks

  Employable caregiversa

Per hour

€ 21

€ 464d

€ 0–5601

137 (38.59%)

  Non-employable caregiversb

Per hour

€ 7

€ 338.d

€ 0–2291

214 (60.28%)

 Supervisione

Per hour

€ 0

€ 1566d

€ 0–10,270

222 (62.5%)

Non-healthcare resources

  Social worker visits

Per hour

€ 14

€ 1d

€ 0-42

12 (3.4%)

  Cleaning service

Per hour

€ 13

€ 102d

€ 0–704

187 (52.7%)

  Home repair service

Per hour

€ 12

€ 4d

€ 0–462

17 (4.8%)

  Meal delivery service

Per visit

€ 6

€ 9d

€ 0–169

33 (9.3%)

  Transportation service

Per service

€ 4

€ 3d

€ 0–214

25 (7%)

Total mean monthly costs 3rd party payer perspective

Per capita

 

€ 968

€ 0–11,773

 

Total mean monthly costs societal perspective

Per capita

 

€ 2339

€ 66–12,938

 
  1. aLess than 65 years, b 65 years and older, c sponsored by private charity, d not subsidized by a third party payer, esupervision was set at €0 cost to avoid overestimation, f user = percentage of total sample who used a certain service, *3rd PP = third party payer, **pt co-payment = patient co-payment