Table 4. Physical indicators of health and diagnoses of home care clients in Ontario based on the presence of hearing and vision sensory and/or cognitive impairments.

Variables	No Impairment	Vision impairment (VI)	Hearing impairment (HI)	Dual sensory impairment (DSI)	Cognitive impairment (CI)	Cognitive + Sensory Impairment
						CI + Vision impairment	CI + Hearing impairment	CI + DSI
	N = 59,360	N = 11,829	N = 26,495	N = 10,868	N = 54,029	N = 21,903	N = 57,888	N = 49,452
%
Bladder incontinence
Continent	70.5	60.8	61.0	52.7	41.7	31.4	35.8	26.1
Any degree of incontinence	29.5	39.2	39.0	47.3	58.3	68.6	64.2	73.9
Diagnoses
Hypertension	59.7	65.1	64.2	67.5	59.4	63.1	62.8	65.4
Diabetes	26.8	33.4	25.7	28.0	24.4	29.4	23.9	26.7
Coronary artery disease	23.6	27.6	29.6	31.2	22.8	24.7	28.8	29.6
Congestive heart failure	11.3	15.8	16.3	19.2	10.2	12.3	15.0	16.7
Stroke	9.6	14.2	11.4	15.0	19.6	26.1	20.1	24.3
Parkinsonism	2.1	2.8	2.1	2.3	6.0	8.5	5.0	6.3
Alzheimer’s dementia	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	20.1	15.5	15.0	11.8
Dementia other than Alzheimer’s dementia	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	37.1	34.1	35.7	33.5
Arthritis	49.2	55.2	58.2	63.7	44.9	48.5	54.0	56.6
Cataracts	10.9	23.1	13.2	22.4	9.3	19.0	10.9	20.0
Glaucoma	5.0	14.2	6.7	14.9	5.2	12.7	6.1	13.7
Any psychiatric diagnosis a	9.0	10.6	8.7	8.7	19.0	18.8	16.6	16.5
Cancer	26.8	19.0	22.1	16.8	11.5	10.7	12.5	11.7
Activities of Daily Living (ADL) Self-performance Hierarchy Scale
Independent/minor supervision (0–1)	83.1	76.7	81.1	74.3	57.3	45.5	55.3	42.5
Impairment (2–6)	16.9	23.3	18.9	25.7	42.7	54.5	44.7	57.5
Instrumental Activities of Daily Living (IADL) Involvement Scale
None/minor difficulty (0–13)	83.1	72.4	78.2	65.2	28.7	21.1	26.2	18.0
Moderate/major difficulty (14–21)	16.9	27.6	21.8	34.8	71.3	78.9	73.8	82.0

^a Presence of any type of psychiatric diagnosis (e.g., depression, anxiety disorder, schizophrenia, paranoia)