Table 3 Distribution (%) of demographic characteristics and the frailty index across the six frailty profiles
From: The frail older person does not exist: development of frailty profiles with latent class analysis
|  | Total (n = 43,704) | Relatively healthy (n = 17,580) | Mild physically frail (n = 6336) | Psychologically frail (n = 10,411) | Severe physically frail (n = 4522) | Medically frail (n = 3339) | Multi-frail (n = 1516) | Nagelkerke’s R squarea |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Gender: Female - % | 59.6 | 50.6 | 68.9 | 59.8 | 70.3 | 71.4 | 63.9 | 0.03 |
Living situation: Independently - % | 89.6 | 97.6 | 82.9 | 96.1 | 66.7 | 84.6 | 52.8 | 0.12 |
Marital status: Married/cohabiting - % | 49.8 | 60.9 | 37.2 | 49.5 | 34.8 | 39.6 | 41.2 | 0.04 |
Educational level: - % | Â | Â | Â | Â | Â | Â | Â | 0.03 |
Primary school or less | 22.7 | 15.8 | 27.4 | 21.7 | 32.0 | 31.1 | 34.0 | |
Practical/secondary vocational training | 60.2 | 62.3 | 58.5 | 61.6 | 56.0 | 57.9 | 55.4 | |
Some college/university degree | 17.1 | 21.9 | 14.1 | 16.7 | 11.9 | 11.1 | 10.7 | |
Ethnicity: Dutch native - % | 90.4 | 91.2 | 90.6 | 89.4 | 90.6 | 88.7 | 89.4 | 0.00 |
Age: Mean (SD) | 78.74 (7.13) | 76.90 (6.19) | 81.40 (7.14) | 77.83 (6.61) | 82.24 (7.97) | 80.28 (6.99) | 81.51 (9.24) | 0.09 |