Table 1.

Patient (n = 14, female = 6) and caregiver (n = 14, female = 10) characteristics before and after transition to institutional care.

	Mean ± SD	Min	Max
PD Patients
Age (years)	79.1 ± 5.8	72	88
Disease duration (years)	15.4 ± 9	5	34
Hoehn and Yahr stage before	4.1 ± 0.5	3	5
Hoehn and Yahr stage after	4.5 ± 0.6	3	5
Burden because of therapies	4.4 ± 2.5	1	8
Depression before	45 ± 20.3	0	70
Depression after	40.9 ± 27.5	10	100
Barthel Index before	37.5 ± 20.1	10	100
Barthel Index after	27.5 ± 9.7	10	40
	Mean ± SD	Min	Max
Caregivers
Age (years)	73.2 ± 9	48	86
Caregiving hours before (h/w)	53.3 ± 49.8	0	168
Caregiving hours after (h/w)	10.1 ± 15.8	0	56
Time together before (h/w)	128.5 ± 7.1	7	168
Time together after (h/w)	17.3 ± 20.7	0	70
Burden because of therapies	4.9 ± 3.2	0	10
PDCB before (%)	76.4 ± 21.2	30	100
PDCB after (%)	28.3 ± 26.1	0	100
Depression before	47.1 ± 28.9	0	100
Depression after	34.2 ± 25.6	0	100
Fear of the future before (%)	42.9 ± 22.2	0	80
Fear of the future after (%)	29.1 ± 26.9	0	100

PwP disease duration was measured at time of participation in the study t1. Abbreviations: h/w, hours per week; PD, Parkinson’s disease; PDCB, Parkinson’s disease caregiver burden questionnaire; SD, standard deviation.