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Table 6 Other one-way sensitivity analyses

From: The societal costs of dementia in Sweden 2012 – relevance and methodological challenges in valuing informal care

Varied entity Value Costa (billion SEK) Cost per PWD Source [reference]
Prevalence (number of PWD) 158,000 62.9 398,000 Base case
Prevalence 113,000 54.1 478,000 EBC [24]
Prevalence 117,000 54.8 469,000 Matthews et al. [8]
Prevalence 123,000 56.0 455,000 Lobo et al. [25]
Prevalence 128,000 56.6 453,000 SNAC-K [9]
Prevalence 148,000 60.9 412,000 EURODEM [26]
Prevalence 151,000 61.5 408,000 ALCOVE [27]
Prevalence 168,000 64.9 386,000 EuroCoDe [28]
Prevalence 169,000 65.1 385,000 ADI [3]
Home care: per executed hour 558 63.8 404,000  
Home care: median hourly cost 420 61.6 390,000 [42]
Home care: 25th percentile per hour 378 60.9 385,000 [42]
Home care: 75th percentile per hour 473 62.5 395,000 [42]
Institutional care: 25th percentile (low staffed and high staffed) 363,920 and 565,811 59.1 374,000 [42]
Institutional care: 75th percentile (low staffed and high staffed) 534,142 and 639,828 65.6 416,000  
Institutional care: proportion PWD 50% in low-staffed, 80% in high-staffed 64.2 406,000  
Institutional care: proportion PWD 40% in low-staffed, 50% in high-staffed 59.1 374,000  
  1. PWD Persons with dementia, SEK Swedish krona
  2. a1 € corresponds to SEK 8.77 and 1 US$ to SEK 6.96
  3. EBC European Brain Council
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