Characteristics of caregivers and care recipients with dementia according to gender.
Characteristic
Male caregivers ()
Female caregivers ()
value1
Caregivers
Mean age, years (SD)
77.0 (6.2)
78.4 (5.6)
0.071
Education <8 years, %
33.6
22.7
0.029
Charlson comorbidity index, mean (SD)
1.9 (1.9)
1.1 (1.4)
0.001
Zarit burden scale, mean (SD)
31.5 (14.9)
37.5 (14.6)
0.001
GDS, mean (SD)
7.0 (5.2)
8.8 (5.7)
0.0025
Satisfied with life, %
83.1
78.6
0.33
Suffers from loneliness, %
76.8
66.7
0.051
Female care recipients ()
Male care recipients ()
Care recipients
Mean age, years (SD)
76.9 (6.2)
78.4 (5.6)
0.041
MMSE, mean (SD)
14.0 (7.1)
17.7 (6.2)
0.001
CDR score
0.5
4.7
2.9
1
20.3
30.4
0.048
2
50.8
52.5
3
24.2
14.5
Charlson comorbidity index, mean (SD)
1.9 (1.6)
2.3 (1.9)
0.17
Cornell, mean (SD)
5.0 (4.3)
6.0 (5.1)
0.099
NPI, mean (SD)
21.9 (13.8)
22.4 (14.7)
0.97
Home care services
13.3
11.6
0.65
Abbreviations: GDS: geriatric depression scale; MMSE: mini-mental state examination; CDR: clinical dementia rating scale; NPI: neuropsychiatric inventory; SD: standard deviation.
1Males and females were compared with -test for categorical variables and Mann-Whitney test for nonnormally distributed continuous variables.
