Table 2.

Residents’ Select Personal and Health Characteristics at Baseline (N = 50)

Resident characteristic	Range	Mean/median
Age (years)	57–96	82/85
	N	%
Gender
Female	29	58
Male	21	42
Marital statusa
Married	7	14
Widowed	29	58
Divorced/separated	11	22
Never married	3	6
Race
White	34	68
Black	15	30
Asian	1	2
Educationa
Less than high school	2	4
High school diploma	20	40
Some college	9	18
College	7	6
Post graduate	11	22
Care needs
Needs help with three or more ADLs	28	56
Needs help with three or more IADLs	38	76
Needs help with medications	41	81
Use of wheelchair	17	34
Health conditions
High blood pressure	34	68
Dementiab	29	58
Heart disease	18	36
Depression	14	28
Osteoarthritis	18	36
Diabetes	9	18
Emphysema, chronic bronchitis, COPD	5	10
Cancer	7	14
Stroke	8	16
Other conditions	47	94
Total number of comorbidities among residents	Min–max	Mean per resident
283	1–10	5.66

Notes: ADL = activities of daily living; COPD = chronic obstructive pulmonary disease; IADL = instrumental activities of daily living.

^aOne missing case.

^bDementia diagnoses were as follows: unspecified dementia (n = 20); Alzheimer’s disease (n = 2); Lewy body dementia (n = 3); Parkinson’s-related (n = 1); Vascular (n = 2); Behavior variant frontotemporal dementia (n = 1).