PSSRU
Provider
category
Cost per
resident per
week
Cost per
resident per
day
Cost saving per week
for 100 cases by
1week delay in transfer
Less cost of 1 week of Social Care Package
Critical care package costs £363 per person per week
Private sector
nursing homes
for older people
£736 £105.14 £73,600 Less cost of Critical care - saves £37,300 per 100 cases per week
Private sector
residential care
for older people
£522 £74.57 £52,200 Less cost of Critical care - saves £15,900 per 100 cases per week
Local authority
residential care
for older people
£1,007 £143.86 £100,700 Less cost of Critical care - saves £64,400 per 100 cases per week
Extra care housing
for older people
£428 £61.14 £42,800 Less cost of Critical care - saves £6,500 per 100 cases per week
Costing for early interventions
Voluntary adult
befriending
£87 for 12 hrs
per week
This could support development of 'black and minority ethnic dementia navigator'
Targeted black and
minority ethnic
health promotion
campaign
Unknown as depends on
the scale of health
promotion campaign
This could be partly directly invested in black and minority ethnic community groups. It is anticipated that economic benefits would be comparable with those
found by Knapp et al in reviewing the benefits of mental health promotion
Table 2: An ‘invest to save’ illustration for using cost saving benefits of delayed transfer to residential home to fund community support services.
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