Private costs almost equal health care costs when intervening in mild Alzheimer's: a cohort study alongside the DAISY trial

Table 1 Item costs used for estimating the costs of a support programme for mild Alzheimer's disease.

Resource	Cost	Source
Time costs of formal care
Counsellor (specially trained nurse)	25.93	Local Government Denmark [KL]
Load-factor for counsellor's time [weight]¹	1.56	Local Government Denmark [KL]/estimate
Course teacher, nurse [per course]	131.69	Market prices (tariff of trial management)
Course teacher, academic [per course]	219.48	Market prices (tariff of trial management)
Volunteers assisting course personnel	17.73	National average net salary for 50-year olds
Capital costs	20%	Local Government Denmark [KL]
Time costs of informal time (examples)²
Male, 50-54 years, gross	32.50	Statistics Denmark
Male, 50-54 years, net	19.76	Statistics Denmark
Female, 50-54, gross	23.40	Statistics Denmark
Female, 50-54, net	15.70	Statistics Denmark
Transportation cost professionals [EUR/km]	0.25	Danish Government
Transportation cost participant [EUR/km]	0.47	Danish Government

¹A load factor was applied to account for non-productive time of a counsellor due to pauses, walking distance between locations, private time, vacation and other absence from work etc. ²A complete set of age- and gender-specific national average salaries was used (complete data are publicly available from StatBank Denmark at http://statistikbanken.dk).
All costs are in 2008 EUR per hour unless otherwise stated.

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