Table 2.

Demographic data of the interview participants.

			Gender		Living Situation
Group	Number of Participants	Age (Range)	Male	Female	Alone	Not Alone
HP	21	21–77	12	9	7	14
PD	12	37–80	8	4	1	11
HD	4	29–59	2	2	1	3
PSS	11	52–82	2	9	2	9
RA	6	40–68	0	6	1	5
IBD	6	22–53	2	4	1	5
total	60	21–82	26	34	12	48

HP: healthy participants; PD: Parkinson's disease; HD: Huntington's disease; PSS: primary Sjögren's syndrome; RA: rheumatoid arthritis; IBD: irritable bowel disease.