Table 2.

Characteristics of the studied group

Variable		Males		Females		In total
		n	%	n	%	N	%
Sex		103	100.0	363	100.0	466	100.0
Age	65–69	41	40.2	50	14.0	91	19.8
	70–74	15	14.7	46	12.9	61	13.3
	75–79	22	21.6	74	20.7	96	20.9
	80–84	15	14.7	96	26.9	111	24.2
	85 and older	9	8.8	91	25.5	100	21.8
Marital status	Single Male/single female	15	14.6	43	11.8	58	12.4
	Married	10	9.7	9	2.5	19	4.1
	Widower/widow	45	43.7	268	73.9	313	67.2
	Divorced	33	32.0	43	11.8	76	16.3
Education	Elementary	42	40.8	200	55.1	242	51.9
	Vocational	18	17.5	19	5.2	37	7.9
	Secondary	34	33.0	119	32.8	153	32.9
	University	9	8.7	25	6.9	34	7.3
Work done in the past	Manual worker	84	81.6	239	65.8	323	69.3
	Desk-bound worker	19	18.4	124	34.2	143	30.7
Number of people in the household	One	91	88.4	334	92.0	425	91.2
	More than one	12	11.6	29	8.0	41	8.8
Sufficient income	Yes	7	6.8	25	6.9	32	6.9
	No	96	93.2	338	93.1	434	93.1
Health disorders	Headaches	71	68.9	312	85.9	383	82.2
	Pain in the spine and joints	34	33.0	252	69.4	286	61.4
	Pain in the chest	49	47.6	199	54.8	248	53.2
	Shortness of breath	63	61.2	215	59.2	278	59.7
	Heart palpitations	29	28.2	156	42.9	185	39.7
	Unstable blood pressure	51	49.5	189	52.1	240	51.5
	Tiredness	69	66.9	275	75.8	344	73.8
Participation in family gatherings	Every week	0	0.0	2	0.6	2	0.4
	Every month	2	1.9	9	2.5	11	2.4
	A few times a year	29	28.2	191	52.5	220	47.2
	Once a year	1	1.0	1	0.3	2	0.4
	Never	71	68.9	160	44.1	231	49.6
Self-rated quality of life	Good and very good	16	15.5	64	17.6	80	17.2
	Neither good nor bad	61	59.2	200	55.1	261	56.0
	Bad and very bad	26	25.3	99	27.3	125	26.8
Activity of daily living (ADL)	Fitness	70	67.9	229	63.2	299	64.2
	Moderate disability	27	26.2	98	26.9	125	26.8
	Disability	6	5.9	36	9.9	42	18.6
Geriatric scale of Depression (GSOD)	No depression	8	7.8	70	19.3	78	16.7
	Diagnosed/not diagnosed depression	31	30.1	88	24.2	119	25.5
	Possible depression	64	62.1	205	56.5	269	57.7

Source: the authors’ own calculations.