Table 1.

Basic characteristics of the disabled elderly.

Characteristics	Participants (n = 559)		Characteristics	Participants (n = 559)
	n/mean	%/SD		n/mean	%/SD
Gender			Source of income
Male	313	56.0	Pension or Annuity	485	86.8
Female	246	44.0	Government or social relief	50	8.9
Age (year) 1	70.2	8.3	Family support	24	4.3
Age group			Basic medical insurance type
60~69	337	60.3	for urban workers	305	54.6
70~79	121	21.6	for residents	254	45.4
≥80	101	18.1	BMI (Kg/m2) 1	23.4	3.8
Household registration			BMI group
Rural	95	17.0	<18.5	48	8.6
Urban	464	83.0	18.5~23.9	280	50.1
Marital Status			24~27.5	171	30.6
Married	385	68.9	≥27.5	60	10.7
Unmarried	84	15.0	Disability type
Divorced or widowed	90	16.1	Visual	64	11.4
Education			Hearing and Speech	51	9.1
Primary School or below	174	31.1	Physical	327	58.5
Middle School	220	39.4	Intellectual	76	13.6
High School or Technical Secondary School	117	20.9	Mental	30	5.4
			Multiple	11	2.0
Junior College or above	48	8.6	Disability severity
Occupational Status			Level 1	130	23.3
On the job	55	9.8	Level 2	241	43.1
Retirement	463	82.8	Level 3	105	18.8
Unemployed	41	7.4	Level 4	83	14.8
Monthly household income ($)			Disability duration (year) 1	29.4	23.5
<150	15	2.7	Type of care
150~449	163	29.1	Self-care	193	34.5
450~749	329	58.9	Family-care	139	24.9
≥750	52	9.3	Family-care & Public-care	227	40.6

¹ The data in this marked part are presented as mean (SD), and the others as frequencies (%).