Differences and commonalities of home-based care arrangements for persons living with dementia in Germany – a theory-driven development of types using multiple correspondence analysis and hierarchical cluster analysis

Table 7 Distribution of the passive variables in relation to the types

Variable	Categories	Whole sample	Type I: spouse-centred earlier	Type II: spouse-centred later	Type III: child-centred earlier	Type IV: child-centred later
care situation from the perspective of the iC at t0	caring at home does not work anymore	10.00	0.00**	10.78	10.13	19.40**
	the care situation is well organised, but in case of progression of the dementia, more help is needed	58.44	50.00	60.78	65.82	55.22
	the care situation is well organised; even if the dementia progresses more help is not needed	28.44	45.83**	23.53	21.52	25.37
	missing	3.13	4.17	4.90	2.53	0.00
quality of life of the PwD at t0		28,52^a (SD 5.21) [16-48]	32.49*** (SD 4.88) [21-48]	26.77** (SD 4.57) [16-41]	29.28 (SD 4.70) [20-39]	26.02** (SD 4.26) [17-35]
living situation of the PwD at t1	private home	64.38	80.56**	62.75	53.17*	62.69
	PwD moved to an institutional form of living	15.94	5.56**	15.69	24.05*	17.91
	PwD died	9.06	2.78*	10.78	7.60	14.93
	missing	10.63	11.11	10.78	15.19	4.48

All numbers indicate relative frequencies given in percent except for the values of quality of life of the PwD, which are displayed as the arithmetic mean; numbers in square brackets = range
SD Standard deviation, iC Informal carer, PwD Person with dementia
^a n = 4 missing values; *indicate significant categories for corresponding types (*p < 0.05, **p < 0.01, ***p < 0.00001)

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