That is correct, and I think the difference was about $3,500 in the third year after the start of the study. There was really a natural experiment in British Columbia, where there was a policy of no longer providing housekeeping services to people who were at the lower level of care. A few of the health units, as we called them at the time, took that very seriously and reduced their rosters. Others did not, and so we had a natural experiment where we could look at two health regions where the cuts were made and not made.
When we broke down the data in that study, we found that on average, if you looked at the two groupings, the major increasing costs related to admissions to long-term care facilities—on a proportional basis, more people were admitted to a facility, thus increasing the costs—and the use of hospital services. So the people who no longer got those services basically found they might run into some problems, for whatever reasons, because of the lack of those services. The result was that they went to hospital more often and were more likely to be institutionalized in a long-term care facility.