Supporting Family Carers of Community-Dwelling Elder with Cognitive Decline: A Randomized Controlled Trial

Table 1

Study population at baseline.

Feature	Intervention group 𝑛 = 32	Control group 𝑛 = 27
Carer age	64.4 (SD 12.9)	62.3 (SD 15.1)
Carer gender	7 male	7 male
	25 female	20 female
Carerpatient relation	17 partners	10 partners
	10 sons or daughters	10 sons or daughters
	5 other family	5 other family
		2 no family
Home care
(i) Home nurse	32	27
(ii) Home assistant	18	12
(iii) Cleaning service	17	7
(iv) Physiotherapist	14	15
(v) Social worker	2	1
(vi) Supervision	8	3
(vii) Meals	4	4
(viii) Personal alarm	5	5
(ix) Day care	3	8
(x) Paid private help	2	0
(xi) Interdisciplinary communication	27 on irregular basis	26 on irregular basis
	1 on regular basis	1 on regular basis
	4 care plan	0 care plan
Health of the carer	22 good health	24 good health
	10 care dependent	1 good but not able to help
		2 care dependent