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. 2020 May 4;20:158. doi: 10.1186/s12877-020-01529-4

Table 2.

Attender participants’ characteristics (n = 23)

Characteristics Number
Age 65–69 2
70–74 1
75–79 4
80–84 6
85–89 5
90–94 3
≥95 1
Not given 1
Sex, gender identity and sexual orientation Male 5
Female 18
Gender same as birth 23
Heterosexual 23
Marital status Widowed/ surviving partner 15
Separated/ divorced 5
Never married 1
Married 2
Living arrangements Alone 15
With adult children/other family 6
With spouse 2
Accommodation Owner-occupied 7
Rented - privately 2
Rented - LA/housing association 14
Means-tested financial help Pension Credit & Housing Benefit 9
Pension Credit 2
No means-tested financial help 10
Does not know 2
Education Secondary & further education 6
Completed secondary school 15
Did not complete secondary 2
Ethnicity White British /English 16
White - any other 1
Black Caribbean 5
Asian - any other 1
Religion Christian 17
Judaism 1
Atheism/no religion or belief 5
Health conditions or disabilities Have a health condition or disability 23
General learning disability 2
Mental health condition 2
Blind/partially sighted - uncorrected by glasses 3
Other (e.g. hip replacements, stroke, thrombosis) 5
Deafness or serious hearing impairment 8
A physical disability or mobility difficulties 17
A long-standing illness or health condition 17
Edmonton Frail Scale (EFS) Severe frailty (11–17) 5
Moderate frailty (9–10) 3
Mild frailty (7–8) 4
Apparently vulnerable (5–6) 9
No frailty (0–4) 2
Practitioner Assessment of Network Type (PANT) Locally integrated 8
Locally self-contained 8
Local family-dependent 3
Private-restricted 3
Borderline family-dependent & locally self-contained 1
Wider community-focussed 0
Short Warwick-Edinburgh Mental Wellbeing Scale (SWEMWBS) (n = 22)

Raw score range: 18–35 (mean 27.18)

Metric score range: 17.43–35 (mean 24.78)

Good wellbeing (> 1 SD above mean) 4
Average wellbeing (±1 SD of mean) 13
Poor wellbeing (< 1 SD below mean) 5