Trends in the use and costs of round-the-clock long-term care in the last two years of life among old people between 2002 and 2013 in Finland

Table 1 Unit costs of different types of LTC

	Cost items	€ 2011^b	€ 2013^c	Total costs in € 2013
Health center	Staff, administration, meals, clothes, care supplies, housing, medicines,^a TVs, hygiene products, phones	257	271	271
Residential home	Staff, administration, meals, clothes, care supplies, housing, medicines,^a TVs, hygiene products, phones	185	195	195
Sheltered housing	Staff, meals, care supplies^a	131	138	156
+ housing costs			13.60^d
+ medicine costs			4.00^e

^a[21] The unit costs for the care of old people reported by Kapiainen et al. [20] are mainly based on this report
^bCosts per day in LTC provided by municipality [20]
^cCosts were converted to their 2013 equivalent values according to the price index of public expenditure for health and social services (Statistics Finland)
^d[22]
^eCOCTEL data: medicine costs per day in the last two years of life among those who died in 2013 and were community-dwelling for at least one day

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