Table 3 Residential Aged Care Service Characteristics and Frailty Levels
From: The Frailty In Residential Sector over Time (FIRST) study: methods and baseline cohort description
Characteristic | Total n | Vulnerable/Fraila n (%) | Most-Fraila n (%) | P-value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Service Size | ||||
 60–80 beds | 39 | 32 (82.1) | 7 (17.9) | 0.139 |
 81–100 beds | 271 | 203 (74.9) | 68 (25.1) | |
  ≥101 beds | 243 | 168 (69.1) | 75 (30.9) | |
Service Rurality | ||||
 Metropolitan Area | 371 | 267 (72.0) | 104 (28.0) | 0.116 |
 Outer Metropolitan | 76 | 51 (67.1) | 25 (32.9) | |
 Regional | 106 | 85 (80.2) | 21 (19.8) | |