Table 2.

Descriptive Characteristics of Community-dwelling Care Recipients

Characteristic	Weighted Mean (SE) or %
Total sample, weighted na	7,635,000
Age	78.3 (0.2)
Female	67.5
White	82.1
Self-reported health fair or poor	54.1
Number of comorbidities	4.6 (0.0)
Health conditions
Cancer	27.2
Stroke	20.4
Lung disease	22.9
Heart attack	20.9
Depressive symptoms, score of ≥3 on PHQ-2b (n=1165)	30.3
Anxiety symptoms, score of ≥3 on GAD-2c (n=1165)	26.6
Dementia/disability status
No dementia or substantial disability	54.1
No dementia but substantial disability	17.6
Dementia but not substantial disability	14.2
Dementia and substantial disability	14.1

Note. Data weighted using NHATS analytic weights. All variables without a sample size reported have no missing data.

^aBased on an unweighted sample of 1171 care recipients in NHATS who were living in the community and received assistance from a caregiver in the NSOC.

^bA score of ≥3 on the PHQ-2 is the suggested threshold for distinguishing normal ranges from probable cases of depression.

^cA score of ≥3 on the GAD-2 is the suggested threshold for distinguishing normal ranges from probably cases of anxiety.