Table 1:
Characteristics of residents at 2 long-term care facilities (New Vista Care Home and Delta View) and at long-term care facilities in the Fraser Health Authority, and study residents with falls captured on video
Characteristic | Total residents | Residents with falls captured on video‡ | |||||
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New Vista Care Home*n = 180 | Delta View*n = 191 | Fraser Health Authority†n = 3895 | Total n = 37 | Head impact n = 11 | No head impact n = 19 | Mix of head impact and no head impact n = 7 | |
Demographic | |||||||
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Age, yr, mean ± SD | 80.8 ± 12.4 | 81.6 ± 10.3 | 83.2 ± 11.1 | 78.4 ± 8.2 | 77.7 ± 7.5 | 79.7 ± 6.5 | 75.7 ± 13.1 |
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Female sex, no. (%) | 120 (67) | 116 (61) | 2715 (69.7) | 22 (59) | 11 (100) | 6 (32) | 5 (71) |
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Disease diagnosis, no. (%) | |||||||
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Alzheimer disease | 31 (17) | 72 (38) | 559 (14) | 18 (49) | 5 (45) | 9 (47) | 4 (57) |
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Diabetes | 28 (16) | 37 (19) | 818 (21) | 6 (16) | 1 (9) | 5 (26) | 0 |
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Cardiac arrhythmia | 6 (3) | 13 (7) | 153 (4) | 1 (3) | 0 | 1 (5) | 0 |
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Hypertension | 60 (33) | 87 (46) | 1662 (43) | 12 (32) | 5 (45) | 6 (32) | 1 (14) |
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Hypotension | 1 (1) | 0 | 27 (1) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
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Stroke | 24 (13) | 40 (21) | 844 (22) | 4 (11) | 1 (9) | 3 (16) | 0 |
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Parkinson disease | 4 (2) | 11 (6) | 229 (6) | 1 (3) | 0 | 0 | 1 (14) |
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COPD | 15 (8) | 17 (9) | 407 (10) | 2 (5) | 1 (9) | 1 (5) | 0 |
Note: COPD = chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, SD = standard deviation.
Data summarize characteristics of all residents with electronic medical records during 2010.
Data for 2010 from residents at 35 long-term care facilities owned and operated by the Fraser Health Authority.
Data are from the 37 (of 133) residents with falls captured on video who provided written consent to access their medical records.