|
Year
|
1997
|
2004
|
|---|
|
Participating practices
|
N = 11
|
N = 13
|
|
Total number of patients
|
N = 198
|
N = 261
|
| |
n (%)
|
n (%)
|
|
Sex
| | |
|
m
|
56 (28.3)
|
79 (30.3)
|
|
f
|
142 (71.7)
|
182 (69.7)
|
|
Mean age
| | |
|
m/f
|
77.2 (SD 17.5)
|
79.9 (SD 13.7)
|
|
m*
|
72.1 (SD 18.2)
|
76.3 (SD 16.1)
|
|
f*
|
79.2 (SD 16.8)
|
81.4 (SD 12.2)
|
|
Married
|
56 (28.3)
|
76 (29.1)
|
|
Divorced
|
4 (2.0)
|
19 (7.3)
|
|
Widowed
|
110 (55.6)
|
139 (53.3)
|
|
Single
|
28 (14.1)
|
27 (10.3)
|
|
Former occupation
| | |
|
Housewife
|
81 (40.9)
|
96 (36.8)
|
|
Self-employed
|
41 (20.7)
|
46 (17.6)
|
|
Employed
|
62 (31.3)
|
106 (40.6)
|
|
None
|
14 (7.1)
|
13 (5.0)
|
|
Care provided by
|
†N = 197
|
†N = 257
|
|
Relatives
|
169 (85.8%)
|
218 (84.8%)
|
|
Professional health care services
|
28 (14%)
|
83 (38.1%)
|
|
Degrees of the official grading system
|
Number of patients (attached to degree 1–7)
|
| |
n (%)
|
n (%)
|
|
1+2‡
|
43 (24.7)
|
109 (51.9)
|
|
3+4
|
103 (59.2)
|
85 (40.5)
|
|
5+6+7
|
28 (16.1)
|
16 (7.6)
|
| |
†174 (100.0)
|
†210(100.0)
|
- *1997 as well as 2004 there was a significant difference in the age between men and women [p = 0.0093 (1997); p = 0.014 (2004)] in the t-test.
- †Assessment was not available in all cases of the years 1997 and 2004
- ‡Compared with the year 1997 there was a tendency towards more patients in the group of the less severe cases (degree 1+2) in the year 2004 (p < 0.0001) in the official grading system.
