Table 2.
Summary of the 25 topics. The words in each topic are ranked in decreasing order based on their estimated probabilities in the topic.
| Group and topic | Top words | Expected topic proportion | |||
| Daily caring issues | |||||
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#12: Balanced living | take, home, day, work, will, time, hous, need, come, get | 0.056 | ||
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#13: Sleeping | night, day, sleep, bed, idn’t, walk, get, last, pain, hour | 0.039 | ||
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#18: Showering | use, clean, get, bathroom, shower, put, cloth, room, floor, wear | 0.032 | ||
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#11: Financial issues | pay, money, phone, bill, check, get, insur, idn’t, call, can | 0.028 | ||
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#1: Transportation | car, door, walk, open, hous, store, idn’t, drive, light, key | 0.028 | ||
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#14: Traveling | dog, get, morn, hope, one, cat, ill, good, today, got | 0.022 | ||
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#9: Diets | eat, food, drink, dinner, meal, feed, cook, water, weight, mouth | 0.021 | ||
| Disease related | |||||
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#20: Loss of expression | say, tri, thing, get, tell, talk, ask, someth, time, always | 0.053 | ||
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#16: Disease diagnosis | year, ago, month, now, stage, last, sinc, diagnos, past, week | 0.053 | ||
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#15: Loss of memory | memori, seem, chang, can, becom, time, often, word, still, even | 0.043 | ||
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#24: Nursing home | care, home, facil, nurs, place, move, visit, assist, memori, staff | 0.042 | ||
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#21: Medication | doctor, med, take, medic, hospit, day, agit, also, help, week | 0.040 | ||
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#10: Last wishes | need, will, care, medic, make, health, issu, doctor, decis, state | 0.035 | ||
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#25: Dementia | test, dementia, alzheim, diseas, brain, diagnosi, symptom, neurologist, cognit, result | 0.030 | ||
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#17: COVID19 | idn’t, death, patient, program, covid, case, famili, provid, may, state | 0.026 | ||
| Emotion | |||||
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#7: Feelings | feel, husband, life, never, diseas, like, hard, ever, know, cri | 0.044 | ||
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#2: Gratitude | love, day, time, friend, wife, happi, miss, watch, one, daughter | 0.043 | ||
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#3: Blessings | god, will, love, lord, peac, bless, pray, give, can, jesus | 0.038 | ||
| Relationship | |||||
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#8: Relatives | mother, live, father, famili, sister, caregiv, parent, help, dementia, care | 0.028 | ||
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#6: Relatives | mom, dad, shes, brother, sister, visit, also, move, want, help | 0.020 | ||
| Others | |||||
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#4: Common verbs | just, know, dont, want, think, cant, realli, like, can, doesn’t | 0.082 | ||
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#5: Common questions | thank, help, post, read, caregiv, can, anyon, find, mani, support | 0.065 | ||
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#19: Common words | one, good, well, look, like, thing, lot, thought, way, new | 0.050 | ||
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#22: Common verbs | said, call, told, got, idn’t, ask, went, today, back, took | 0.050 | ||
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#23: Timing | start, back, get, happen, stop, around, turn, head, just, hand | 0.032 | ||