Table 2.
Global Deterioration Scale (GDS) Cognitive Functioning Level Distributions
| Percentage of Cognitive Functioning Levels |
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|---|---|---|---|---|
| Location | n | High (GDS 1–2) | Medium (GDS 3–4) | Low (GDS 5–6) |
| Adult day program | 5 | 100% | 0% | 0% |
| Adult day program | 5 | 60% | 0% | 40% |
| Nursing home | 4 | 0% | 2.5% | 75% |
| Hospital | 6 | 0% | 0% | 100% |
| Hospital | 6 | 16.7% | 33.3% | 50% |
| Residential care | 4 | 25% | 75% | 0% |
| Residential care | 5 | 0% | 20% | 80% |
| Alzheimer’s unit | 4 | 0% | 0% | 100% |
| Alzheimer’s unit | 6 | 0% | 0% | 100% |
| Alzheimer’s unit | 6 | 0% | 0% | 100% |
| N | Totals in each category (combined locations) | |||
| 51 | 19.6% | 13.7% | 66.7% | |