Table 1.
Sample Characteristics
| Sample characteristic | Care recipient (N = 52) |
Caregiver (N = 53) |
||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Age | ||||
| Mean (SD) | 69.67 (8.69) | 68.75 (9.80) | ||
| Median (IQR) | 70 (46–84) | 69 (46–85) | ||
| Gender | ||||
| Female (%) | 26 | 50 | 26 | 49.1 |
| Male | 26 | 50 | 27 | 50.9 |
| Education | ||||
| Less than high school | 2 | 3.8 | 3 | 5.7 |
| High school | 12 | 23.1 | 11 | 20.8 |
| More than HS | 38 | 73.1 | 39 | 73.5 |
| Employment | ||||
| Employed | 12 | 23.1 | 15 | 38.3 |
| Homemaker | 6 | 11.3 | 4 | 7.5 |
| Retired | 32 | 60.4 | 32 | 60.4 |
| Unemployed | 2 | 3.8 | 2 | 3.8 |
| Race | ||||
| White | 44 | 83 | 44 | 83 |
| African American | 6 | 11.3 | 6 | 11.3 |
| Other | 2 | 3.8 | 3 | 5.7 |
| Income* | ||||
| <20,000 | 7 | 14 | ||
| 20,000–39,999 | 16 | 32 | ||
| 40,000–59,999 | 8 | 16 | ||
| >60,000 | 19 | 38 | ||
*
Three caregivers refused to report income and one care recipient refused to complete the entire questionnaire.