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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2022 Jun 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Am Geriatr Soc. 2021 Mar 18;69(6):1670–1682. doi: 10.1111/jgs.17078

Table 2.

Participant Characteristics

Citation Age % Female Race/Ethnicity % Living Alone
Alegría, 201937 Mean NR
I: 5.9% 60–64, 45.8% 65–74, 48.4% 75+
C: 7.8% 60–64, 40.9% 65–74, 51.3% 75+
80.8% 44.9% Hispanic
33.7% Asian
10.2% White
7.9% Black
3.0% Other
0.3% American Indian
NR
Dye, 201838 Mean NR
I: range 61–96
C: range 61–91
58.8%
(13.2% NR)
80.9% White
13.2% NR
2.9% Black
2.9% Hispanic
NR
Geffen, 201939 Mean 69 (sd NR) 75% NR 7%
Lawn, 201740 Mean NR
Range 66–97
100% NR 50%
Li, 201941 N/Aa N/Aa N/Aa N/Aa
Panagioti, 201842 I: 75.4 ± 6.8
C: 74.2 ± 6.4
54.4% 97.6% White
1.8% Non-white
36.5%
Russell, 201743,b 80.5 ± 7.7 73.5% 50.0% Black
26.5% Other/ Unknown
11.8% White
11.8% Hispanic
79.4%
Walters, 201744 I: 80.4 ± 6.9
C: 79.7 ± 6.4
58.8% 88.2% White British
7.8% Other White
2.0% African
2.0% Other Asian
51%
Wang, 201345 I: 70.0 ± 8.8
C: 72.6 ± 6.7
54.8% NR 35.5%

Abbreviations: C, control; I, intervention; NR, not reported.

a

Age, sex, race/ethnicity and living alone are reported for older adult study participants only (not reported for non-older adult interviewees in qualitative studies).

b

Only 1 of the 2 described interventions in this article met criteria for this systematic review.