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Bray, Jennifer 
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1315-7643, Brooker, Dawn ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8636-5147, Latham, Isabelle ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1096-778X and Baines, D.
(2021)
Modelling the comparative costs of Namaste Care: Results from the Namaste Care Intervention UK study.
Working with Older People.
ISSN Print: 1366-3666 Online:2042-8790
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Abstract
To populate a theoretical cost model with real-world data, calculating staffing, resource and consumable costs of delivering NCI-UK sessions versus ‘usual care’ for care home residents with advanced dementia.
Data from five care homes delivering NCI-UK sessions populated the cost model to generate session- and resident-level costs. Comparator usual care costs were calculated based on expert opinion and observational data. Outcome data for residents assessed the impact of NCI-UK sessions and aligned with the resident-level costs of NCI-UK.
NCI-UK had a positive impact on residents’ physical, social and emotional well-being. An average NCI-UK group session cost £220.53, 22% more than usual care, and ran for 1.5-2 hours per day for 4-9 residents. No additional staff were employed to deliver NCI-UK, but staff-resident ratios were higher during Namaste Care. Usual care costs were calculated for the same time period when no group activity was organised. The average cost per resident, per NCI-UK session was £38.01, £7.24 more than usual care. In reality, costs were offset by consumables and resources being available from stock within a home.
Activity costs are rarely calculated as the focus tends to be on impact and outcomes. This article shows that, although not cost neutral as previously thought, NCI-UK is a low-cost way of improving the lives of people living with advanced dementia in care homes.
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| Additional Information: | The full-text of the published article cannot be supplied for this item. Please check availability with your local library or Interlibrary Requests Service. Bray, J., Brooker, D., Latham, I. and Baines, D. (2021), "Modelling the comparative costs of Namaste Care: results from the namaste care intervention UK study", Working with Older People, Vol. ahead-of-print No. ahead-of-print. https://doi.org/10.1108/WWOP-11-2020-0056 |
| Uncontrolled Discrete Keywords: | Namaste Care, advanced dementia, cost model, care homes, dementia, older people |
| Subjects: | H Social Sciences > H Social Sciences (General) |
| Divisions: | College of Health, Life and Environmental Sciences > School of Allied Health and Community |
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| Copyright Info: | Creative Commons Attribution Non-commercial International Licence 4.0 (CC BY-NC 4.0). |
| Depositing User: | Jennifer Bray |
| Date Deposited: | 04 Feb 2021 08:44 |
| Last Modified: | 03 Mar 2021 10:06 |
| URI: | https://eprints.worc.ac.uk/id/eprint/10165 |
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