Table 1 Demographic and medical data about the patients
Demographic and medical data | N | % | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
Median Age years | Range years | 100% | ||
All | 84 | 51-105 | 260 | |
Women | 85 | 51-105 | 173 | 67% |
Men | 79 | 60-100 | 87 | 33% |
Living alone in a private home | 107 | 41% | ||
Living with a spouse or a child | 13 | 5% | ||
Living in a nursing home | 68 | 26% | ||
Homeless | 1 | |||
No information about actual living condition | 71 | 27% | ||
The cause for the need of a custodian as ticked by the doctor | ||||
Disease | 231 | 89% | ||
Weakened health | 70 | 27% | ||
Mental disorder | 25 | 10% | ||
Similar conditions | 14 | 5% | ||
Diagnosis according to the narrative text | ||||
Dementia | 149 | 57% | ||
Unspecific cognitive impairment or memory problems | 98 | 38% | ||
Stroke | 31 | 12% | ||
Other memory-related diagnosis | 14 | 5% | ||
Duration of memory impairment | ||||
no information about duration | 146 | 56% | ||
at least three years | 50 | 19% | ||
Between one and three years | 42 | 16% | ||
less than a year | 22 | 8% | ||
Additional diagnoses mentioned | 181 | 71% | ||
Additional diagnoses actively denied | 4 | 1.5% | ||