Table 3.
Factors contributing to QOL by age group (identified by >20% respondents)
| Age | Vision impaired n = 14 |
n | % | Sighted n = 218 |
n | % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 65–74 | Family | 4 | 29 | Family | 88 | 40 |
| Friends | 4 | 29 | Good health | 92 | 42 | |
| Partner/spouse | 4 | 29 | Spouse | 61 | 28 | |
| Good health | 4 | 29 | Friends | 43 | 20 | |
| n = 61 | n = 136 | |||||
| 75–84 | Family | 31 | 51 | Good health* | 52 | 38 |
| Friends* | 21 | 34 | Family | 45 | 33 | |
| Friends | 33 | 24 | ||||
| n = 44 | n = 27 | |||||
| 85+ | Family | 16 | 36 | Family | 13 | 48 |
| Good health | 9 | 20 | Good health | 11 | 41 |
* Proportionally greater than reported by other impairment-group using Standard Error of Proportions (SEP) significant at 0.05