Research Article
Healthy Aging from the Perspectives of 683 Older People with Multiple Sclerosis
Table 1
Participant characteristics by age group.
| | | 55–64 | 65–74 | 75+ | value |
| | 377 | 255 | 51 | — | | Age (mean, SD) | 60 (2.51) | 69 (2.71) | 79 (3.57) | — | | Gender (female, male) | 302, 75 | 190, 65 | 39, 12 | 0.274 | | Years of education (mean, SD) | 13.62 (2.38) | 13.38 (2.76) | 13.25 (2.91) | 0.397 | | Years with symptoms (mean, SD) | 30.68 (7.5) | 34.76 (10.06) | 40 (13.25) | 0.0001 | | Mental health status (HADS, range 0–42) | 12.11 (6.6) | 11.62 (6.1) | 11.32 (5.87) | 0.517 | | Level of disability (Barthel Index, range 0–100) | 78.47 (24.04) | 75.33 (24.39) | 70.49 (24.36) | 0.460 | | Living with spouse/partner (%) | 70.3% | 73.3% | 58.8% | 0.114 | | Living in own home (%) | 97.3% | 94.9% | 94.1% | 0.209 |
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Significant at <0.05.
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