Dementia Care Mapping and Patient-Centred Care in Australian residential homes: An economic evaluation of the CARE Study, CHERE Working Paper 2008/4



Table 3: The Cost Per Site of PCC and DCM relative to UC

Cost

Unit cost (per hour
unless stated, $Aus)

Units required per
site

Total

PCC Trainer

60(Bradford

University, UK)

9 (i.e. 45 / 5 sites)

540^

Post-training support

60(Bradford

University, UK)

6 (i.e. 30 / 5 sites)

360^

PCC Staff Replacement

27 (Commonwealth
Government Aged
Care Nurses’
Award)

2 x 25 hours

1,350

PCC Total

2,250

DCM Trainer

950 per staff
member(Bradford
University, UK)

2^

1,900

Post-training support

100(Bradford

University, UK)

16 (i.e. 80 / 5 sites)

1,600

PCC Staff Replacement

27(Commonwealth
Government Aged
Care Nurses’
Award)

2 x 25 hours

1,350

Mapping time over year

27(Commonwealth
Government Aged
Care Nurses’
Award)

8 hours x 2
residents per month

5,184

DCM Total

10,034

Using the average number of residents per site and the results of the CMAI, the total
number of behaviours averted per site under each of the intervention arms was
estimated. This information was then used to estimate the incremental costs and
incremental outcomes (Table 4).



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