Planning for Serious Illness amongst Community-Dwelling Older Adults

Table 1

Demographic and health characteristics of the sample (by age group and overall).

	55–64 years (𝑁=171) %	≥65 years (𝑛=112) %	Overall (𝑁=283) %
Sex
Male	45.6	47.3	47.3
Female	55.4	52.7	52.7
Education
<or completed high school	20.1	14.4	17.9
Some post-secondary	52.1	55.0	53.2
Completed post-secondary	27.8	30.6	28.9
Annual personal income
<$60,000	23.4^†	42.0^†	30.7
$60,000 or more	49.7^†	28.6^†	41.3
Refused	26.9	29.5	21.8
Residence
Large Urban	43.3	41.1	41.4
Other	56.7	58.9	58.6
Number of health conditions
None	27.5^†	10.7^†	20.8
1–3 conditions	58.5	55.4	57.2
4 or more conditions	14.0^∧	33.9^∧	21.9

^†𝑃<0.05 using the chi-square test for proportions with a Bonferonni correction.
^∧𝑃<0.001 using the chi-square test for proportions with a Bonferonni correction.