Table 2.

Characteristics^a of Women With Dementia in Long-term Care Who Transition From Home Care to Residential Care in a Canadian Context (N = 759; 2008–2011)^b

	Start of home care		Start of residential care		p Valuec
Characteristics	N/mean	Percentage/(CI)	N/mean	Percentage/CI
Demographicd
Age	83.2	(82.8, 83.7)	84.4	(83.9, 84.8)	<.001
% 85 or older	335	44.1%	376	49.5%	<.001
Married	234	30.9%	208	27.5%	<.001
High school or higher	341	46.4%	—	—	—
Low income (supplement)	351	46.6%	—	—	—
Living alone	300	39.5%	177	24.0%	<.001
Location of residence
Rural	122	16.1%	—	—	—
Suburban	257	33.9%	—	—	—
Urban	380	50.1%	—	—	—
Health
Falls risk					<.001
Low	404	53.2%	595	78.4%
Medium	182	24.0%	133	17.5%
High	173	22.8%	31	4.1%
ADL	1.1	(1.0, 1.2)	2.5	(2.3, 2.6)	<.001
CPS	2.3	(2.2, 2.4)	3.0	(2.9, 3.1)	<.001
Depression	1.9	(1.7, 2.1)	1.3	(1.2, 1.5)	<.001
Medical frailty (CHESS score)	1.4	(1.3, 1.5)	0.7	(0.6, 0.7)	<.001
PAIN	1.0	(0.9, 1.0)	0.6	(0.5, 0.6)	<.001
Number of chronic conditions	2.7	(2.6, 2.8)	2.5	(2.4, 2.6)	<.001
Incontinence	262	34.6%	353	46.5%	<.001
Aggression	142	18.7%	322	42.4%	<.001
Died within study period			223	29.4%
Age at death			86.4	(85.4, 87.3)
Service use
Days in HC/RC	402.7	(377.7, 427.6)	545.0	(518.0, 572.0)
Hospitalizations in HC/RC	1.2	(1.1, 1.3)	0.4	(0.4, 0.5)	<.001
Hospital days in HC/RC	31.2	(28.1, 34.2)	3.5	(2.6, 4.4)	<.001

Note: CI = confidence interval; HC = home care; LTC = long-term care.

^aBased on demographic and RAI assessment values closest to the start of HC/RC.

^bOnly includes women with at least one valid home care and residential care assessment (n = 759).

^cSignificance testing (p value) compares differences between clients at start of HC and start of RC using paired t test.

^dSee Table 1 for further notes on specific variable definitions.

^eVariable was not measured on RAI assessments and only captured once (time invariant).