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Table 1 Demographic and clinical characteristics of newly-admitted older nursing home residents (2014–2016)

From: Physical frailty and cognitive impairment in older nursing home residents: a latent class analysis

 

All

(n = 871,801)

Percentage

Age (years)

 65 - < 75

21.4

 75- < 85

34.3

 ≥ 85

44.3

Female

65.3

Racial/ethnic minority

18.8

Nursing home location

 Rural

23.5

 Urban

76.5

Admission source

 Community

17.8

 Acute hospital

63.8

 Othera

18.4

Physical frailty

 Robust

9.6

 Pre-frail

25.0

 Frail

65.4

Cognitive impairment

 None/Mild

33.6

 Moderate

30.1

 Severe

36.4

Active diagnosis

 Cancer

6.8

 Heart failure

18.9

 Hypertension

76.3

 Diabetes mellitus

31.3

 Alzheimer’s disease

12.0

 Cerebrovascular accident/Transient ischemic attack/Stroke

13.9

 Non-Alzheimer’s/other dementiab

39.2

 Multiple sclerosis

0.5

 Parkinson’s disease

5.8

 Seizure disorder/Epilepsy

5.8

 Arthritis

26.1

 Osteoporosis

11.7

 Hip fracture

5.4

 Other fracture

8.2

 Asthma/Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease/Chronic lung disease

19.6

 Anxiety disorder

21.8

 Depression

36.3

Any presence of pain

40.9

In past 7 days or since admission, receipt of …

 Antipsychotics

19.2

 Antianxiety medications

18.4

 Antidepressant

43.9

  1. aIncluded another nursing home/swing bed, psychiatric hospital, inpatient rehabilitation facility, ID/DD facility, long-term care hospitals, hospice, and other unspecified admission sources
  2. bIncluded non-Alzheimer’s dementia (e.g. vascular or multi-infarct dementia), mixed dementia; frontotemporal dementia (e.g. Pick’s disease), and dementia related to stroke, Parkinson’s or Creutzfeldt-Jakob diseases