Table 4.
Factors detracting from QOL by age-group (identified by >20% respondents)
| Age | Vision impaired n = 13 |
n | % | Sighted n = 155 |
n | % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 65–74 | Impaired vision* | 10 | 77 | Poor health | 53 | 34 |
| Independence* | 4 | 31 | Finances | 41 | 26 | |
| Mobility | 4 | 31 | ||||
| n = 59 | n = 113 | |||||
| 75–84 | Impaired vision* | 47 | 80 | Poor health | 40 | 35 |
| Inability to drive* | 18 | 30 | ||||
| Poor health | 15 | 25 | ||||
| n = 43 | n = 26 | |||||
| 85+ | Impaired vision* | 36 | 84 | Poor health* | 11 | 42 |
| Impaired hearing* | 13 | 30 | Mobility | 6 | 23 | |
| Poor vision | 6 | 23 |
* Proportionally greater than reported by other impairment group using Standard Error of Proportions (SEP) significant at 0.05