Table 1.
Noncomprehensive comparison of demographic characteristics of caregivers and care recipients in different countries and time periods
| Author | Bowers et al., 19877 | Andren et al., 200825 | Warchol‐Biedermann et al., 201420 | de Labra et al., 201511 | Mavandadi et al., 201613 | Sousa et al., 201631 | Dahlrup et al., PhD thesis, study II 2015 43 | Ruiz‐Adame Reina et al., 201728 | Reed et al., 2017. GERAS study46 | Du et al. 201727 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Region | USA | Sweden | Poland | Spain‐Poland‐Denmark | USA | Spain | Brazil | Spain | France | Germany | UK | China | |
| Year | 1987 | 2008 | 2014 | 2015 | 2010‐2014 | 2016 | 2012 | 2010‐2011 | 2017 | ||||
| N | 27 | 130 | 151 | ‐ | 290 | 146 | 128 | 90 | 778 | 418 | 549 | 526 | 766 |
| Caregiver | |||||||||||||
| Age | 38–72 (range) | 61 | 59 | ‐ | 65 (SD 13; range 24–93) | 61 (SD 15) | 59 (SD 14) | Median 66 (Q1‐Q3; 60–79) | 58 (avg) SD 13.18 | 62 (SD 12) | 66 (SD 12) | 68 (SD 12) | 60.5 (SD 12) |
| Sex (% female) | 57 | 63 | 70 | 75 | 77 | 78 | 52 | 77 | 62 | 68 | 62 | 63 | |
| Relationship to care recipient | |||||||||||||
| Spouse (%) | 20 | 55 | Not consanguineous 48 | 29 | 49 | 49 | 29 | 62 | 68 | 68 | 32 | ||
| Child (%) | 67 | 43 | Consanguineous 52 | 51 | 56 | 61 | 63 | ||||||
| Other (%) | 13 | 3 | ‐ | 10 | 5 | ||||||||
| Living in the same household (%) | 30 | 21 | 82 | ‐ | 67 | 75 | 74 | 30 | |||||
| Care recipient | |||||||||||||
| Sex (female %) | ‐ | 70 | ‐ | ‐ | 78 | 77 | 53 | ‐ | 62 | 50 | 54 | 56 | |
| Age | 62–97 (range) | 85 (avg) | 72 (avg) | ‐ | 78 (SD 7) | 77 (SD 7) | Median 86 (Q1‐Q3; 81–90) | ‐ | 79 (SD 7) | 75 (SD 8) | 79 (SD 8) | 80.9 (SD 8) | |
Year corresponds to conduction of study; if not available, year of publication is given. Age presented in means and/or range as given, rounded to full years
N, number; %, percentage; SD, standard deviation.