Research Article
Measuring Family Members’ Satisfaction with End-of-Life Care in Long-Term Care: Adaptation of the CANHELP Lite Questionnaire
Table 1
Selected characteristics of residents in LTC facilities in Ontario, Canada (2012-2013).
| | Resident characteristics |
| | Average age | 83 years | | Younger than 65 (%) | 6.6% | | 85 and older (%) | 53% | | Female (%) | 68.0% | | Total dependence in activities of daily living (%) | 12% | | Severe cognitive impairment | 28.6% | | Some indication of health instability (%) | 57.2% |
| | Disease diagnosis |
| | Endocrine/metabolic/nutritional diseases | | | Diabetes mellitus | 26.6% | | Hyperthyroidism | 1.1% | | Hypothyroidism | 18.5% | | Heart/circulation diseases | | | Arteriosclerotic heart disease | 14.3% | | Cardiac dysrhythmia | 7.7% | | Congestive heart failure | 12.8% | | Deep vein thrombosis | 1.5% | | Hypertension | 61.3% | | Hypotension | 1.4% | | Other cardiovascular diseases | 15.0% | | Peripheral vascular disease | 6.1% | | Musculoskeletal diseases | | | Arthritis | 59.9% | | Hip fracture | 42.4% | | Missing limb | 6.5% | | Osteoporosis | 1.1% | | Pathological bone fracture | 29.8% | | Neurological diseases | | | Dementia | 61.1% | | Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) | 0.2% | | Aphasia | 8.1% | | Cerebral palsy | 0.6% | | Cerebrovascular accident (stroke) | 22.1% | | Hemiplegia/hemiparesis | 6.3% | | Huntington’s chorea | 0.3% | | Multiple sclerosis | 1.3% | | Paraplegia | 0.5% | | Parkinson’s disease | 7.0% | | Quadriplegia | 0.3% | | Seizure disorder | 5.5% | | Transient ischemic attack (TIA) | 5.5% | | Traumatic brain injury | 1.0% | | Pulmonary diseases | | | Asthma | 4.1% | | Emphysema/COPD | 15.8% | | Other diseases | | | Allergies | 27.4% | | Anemia | 16.5% | | Cancer | 8.4% | | Gastrointestinal disease | 20.6% | | Liver disease | 1.1% | | Renal failure | 10.2% |
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Source: Canadian Institute for Health Information [9].
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