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

Erratum

During production of the original article [1], the line referring to “Informal Care” was omitted from Table 3. It should have been mentioned between “Total social care sector” and “Indirect costs”.

Table 3.

Total societal costs of dementia in Sweden in 2012 (base option)

	Cost (million SEK)a	Per PWD, SEKa	Proportion
Medical care sector (county councils)
Hospital care	276		0.4%
Emergency room visits	264		0.4%
Outpatient care visits (specialists)	57		0.1%
Primary care physician visits	360		0.6%
Other outpatient care (e.g., rehabilitation)	589		0.9%
Drug use	1120		1.8%
Diagnostic work ups	240		0.4%
Total medical care sector	2904	18,382	4.6%
Social care sector (municipalities)
Institutional care (permanent)	38,199		60.7%
Short-term respite care	2364		3.8%
Day Care	989		1.6%
Home services	7372		11.7%
Dementia nurses	338		0.5%
Total social care sector	49,262	311,783	78.3%
Informal care	10,636	67,318	16.9%
Indirect costs	118	744	0.2%
Totalb	62,920	398,226	100.0%

PWD Persons with dementia, SEK Swedish krona

^a1 € corresponds to SEK 8.77 and 1 US$ to SEK 6.96

^bDiscrepancies due to rounding