Table 1.
Assisted Living Resident and Family Member Characteristics (N = 283)
| Characteristics | N (%) or M (SD) |
|---|---|
| Resident Demographics | |
| Female | 207 (73.4) |
| White | 271 (95.8) |
| Age | 83.2 (8.5) |
| Resident Functioning (family report) | |
| Cognitive status (MDS-COGS; 0–10) | 5.2 (2.7) |
| Independent functioning (Katz; 0–6) | 3.6 (1.9) |
| Agitation behaviors (CMAI; 16–61) | 26.3 (7.9) |
| Resident Diagnoses & Care | |
| Type of Dementia | |
| Alzheimer’s Disease | 102 (36.0) |
| Vascular Dementia | 10 (3.5) |
| Frontotemporal Dementia | 1 (0.4) |
| Mixed Dementia | 1 (0.4) |
| Not otherwise specified/Other dementia | 167 (59) |
| Psychiatric diagnoses | |
| Any1 | 184 (65.0) |
| Anxiety and related disorders | 93 (32.9) |
| Bipolar and related disorders | 18 (6.4) |
| Depression and related disorders | 132 (46.4) |
| Personality disorder and related disorders | 3 (1.1) |
| Schizophrenia and related disorders | 34 (12.0) |
| Sleep disorder and related disorders | 33 (11.7) |
| Epilepsy | 14 (5.0) |
| Tourette’s Syndrome | 0 (0.0) |
| Parkinson’s Disease | 12 (4.2) |
| Heart disease | 91 (32.2) |
| Cerebrovascular conditions | 29 (10.3) |
| Chronic kidney disease | 21 (7.4) |
| Chronic liver disease | 0 (0.0) |
| Resident had staff provide care for behaviors such as aggression, pacing, or resisting care2 | 228 (80.6) |
| Resident had been given medications for behaviors such as aggression, pacing, or resisting care2 | 238 (85.0) |
| Family Member Demographics | |
| Family member’s relationship to resident | |
| Child or child-in-law | 200 (71.2) |
| Spouse | 32 (11.4) |
| Sibling or sibling-in-law | 18 (6.4) |
| Other | 31 (11.0) |
| Female | 182 (64.3) |
| White | 270 (95.7) |
| Age | 61.4 (10.7) |
Note. Sources = family interview and resident charts. Due to missing data, the sample size ranges from 265 to 283.
1
Excludes dementia.
2
Not mutually exclusive. The total list of behaviors were those included on the Cohen-Mansfield Agitation Inventory (CMAI).
Abbreviations: Minimum Data Set Cognition Scale (MDS-COGS), Patient Health Questionnaire 9-item Observational Version (PHQ-9 OV), Katz Index of Independence in Activities of Daily Living (Katz), and Cohen-Mansfield Agitation Inventory (CMAI).