Research Article
Supporting Family Carers of Community-Dwelling Elder with Cognitive Decline: A Randomized Controlled Trial
Table 1
Study population at baseline.
| Feature | Intervention group = 32 | Control group = 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 communicationâ | 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 |
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