Table 2.
Characteristics of US nursing home residents with Alzheimer’s disease or related dementia (2016)
| Admission Assessments | Annual Assessments | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pain Self-Reported | Pain Staff-Assessed | Pain Self-Reported | Pain Staff-Assessed | |
| (N=121,534) | (N=25,160) | (N=225,758) | (N=68,946) | |
| Characteristic | Percentages | |||
| Age group (years) 40 to 64 | 5.4 | 6.0 | 6.5 | 5.7 |
| 65 to 74 | 13.5 | 13.6 | 13.2 | 11.8 |
| 75 to 84 | 34.2 | 34.2 | 28.3 | 29.5 |
| ≥85 | 46.9 | 46.2 | 52.0 | 53.1 |
| Women | 62.5 | 64.5 | 70.2 | 76.9 |
| Race/ethnicity Hispanic -any race(s) | 6.2 | 6.7 | 5.8 | 6.5 |
| Non-Hispanic White | 79.9 | 76.7 | 77.6 | 76.3 |
| Non-Hispanic Black | 11.5 | 12.9 | 14.2 | 14.2 |
| Non-Hispanic Asian | 1.7 | 2.8 | 1.7 | 2.3 |
| Non-Hispanic Other | 0.7 | 0.8 | 0.6 | 0.8 |
| Cognitive Impairment Intact/Mild | 49.7 | 13.6 | 44.9 | 6.4 |
| Moderate | 46.2 | 47.7 | 49.0 | 35.2 |
| Severe | 4.1 | 38.7 | 6.0 | 58.4 |
| Limited Life Expectancy | 4.1 | 12.6 | 2.0 | 6.1 |
| Any pain documented, Past 5 days | 58.3 | 57.3 | 55.5 | 53.9 |
| Pain Intensity, Past 5 days among those with self-assessed pain only | ||||
| None or Managed | 67.3 | 82.1 | ||
| Mild | 12.8 | 8.4 | ||
| Moderate | 14.7 | 7.3 | ||
| Severe | 5.1 | 2.3 | ||