Table 3.

Use and costs of services for clients receiving services during the week preceding the interview

Services	Number of clients	Mean number of visits	Range	Unit cost per visit (€)	Weekly costs (€) mean	Percentage
Health-care services
Home nursing visitsa	409	1.67	0–14	40.30	67.30	9.07
Visits to physicana	258	0.14	0.03–2.80	75.70	10.60	1.43
Visits to physiotherapistsa	76	0.59	0.03–1.4	33.10	19.53	2.63
Physiotherapist’s home visitsa	29	1.45	0–4	101.90	147.76	19.92
Visits to laboratorya	322	0.18	0.03–4.2	5.10	0.92	0.12
Visits to outpatient clinica	109	0.11	0.04–0.54	147.20	16.19	2.18
Visits to emergencya	67	0.10	0.03–0.43	243.30	24.33	3.28
Visits to nursea	42	0.30	0.3–0.73	22.50	6.75	0.91
Total costs					293.37	39.54
Social-care services
Home help visitsa	464	7.53	0–42	29.60	222.89	30.04
Meals-on-wheelsa	262	4.80	1–7	7.40	35.52	4.79
Transfer servicesb	113	1.37	1–5	16.90	23.15	3.12
Bathing servicesb	223	1.09	0–7	42.40	46.22	6.23
Cleaning servicesa	200	1.02	0–3	22.30	22.75	3.06
Security telephone serviceb	23	1.87	1–14	51.05	95.46	12.87
Visits to social workera	14	0.07	0.04–0.17	36.60	2.56	0.35
Total costs					448.55	60.46
Weekly costs total (mean)					741.92	100.00

^aThe unit costs based on Hujanen’s study (2003)

^bThe unit costs based on annual reports of municipalities