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