|
Time-invariant characteristics
|
|
Female
|
349
|
57.6
|
|
Ethnicity
|
|
Chinese
|
511
|
84.3
|
|
Malay
|
31
|
5.1
|
|
Indian
|
56
|
9.2
|
|
Others
|
8
|
1.3
|
|
Highest education attended
|
|
No formal education
|
207
|
34.2
|
|
Primary school
|
108
|
17.8
|
|
Secondary school
|
217
|
35.8
|
|
Post-secondary school & above
|
74
|
12.2
|
|
Time-variant characteristics
|
|
Age (Mean, SD)
|
70.1
|
7.9
|
|
marital status
|
|
Married
|
355
|
58.6
|
|
Single/divorced/widowed
|
251
|
41.4
|
|
Employment status
|
|
Employed
|
185
|
30.5
|
|
Unemployed
|
142
|
23.4
|
|
Inactive
|
279
|
46.0
|
|
Living alone
|
119
|
19.6
|
|
Self-reported money insufficiency
|
103
|
17.0
|
|
Currently smoking
|
54
|
8.9
|
|
Alcohol misuse
|
69
|
11.4
|
|
Number of chronic conditions (Mean, SD)
|
2.7
|
2.0
|
|
Number of medications
|
|
0
|
171
|
28.2
|
|
1 or 2
|
208
|
34.3
|
|
3 or more
|
227
|
37.5
|
|
Nutritional status: undernutrition
|
80
|
13.2
|
|
Functional independence- MBI score (Mean, SD)
|
97.8
|
9.3
|
|
LSNS-6 Family (range 0–15) (Mean, SD)
|
8.4
|
3.5
|
|
Isolated from relatives (LSNS-6 Family < 6)
|
107
|
17.7
|
|
LSNS-6 Friends (range 0–15) (Mean, SD)
|
6.0
|
4.0
|
|
Isolated from friends (LSNS-6 Friends < 6)
|
287
|
47.4
|
|
Social participation (range 0–100) (Mean, SD)
|
39.4
|
9.4
|
|
Loneliness (range3-9) (Mean, SD)
|
3.4
|
1.0
|
|
Not lonely
|
636
|
93.0
|
|
Lonely (loneliness score ≥ 6)
|
44
|
7.3
|
