Table 1 Demographic, clinical, and service utilisation characteristics of the home care cohort and community support cohort
% (n) | Home care cohort (n = 128,169) | Community support cohort (n = 25,800) | p-value, home care vs community support | Home care patients receiving any personal support services (n = 107,407) | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Age | ||||||
 65 or older | 83.8 (107,359) | 84.2 (21,714) | 0.11 | 86.8 (93,204) | ||
 85 or older | 36.8 (47,157) | 33.5 (8653) | <0.001 | 39.9 (42,874) | ||
Female | 64.9 (83,211) | 66.0 (17,035) | <0.001 | 67.2 (72,216) | ||
Married | 38.0 (48,662) | 28.2 (7284) | <0.001 | 36.4 (39,098) | ||
Living alone | 33.1 (42,453) | 56.0 (14,454) | <0.001 | 33.5 (35,947) | ||
Instrumental Activities of Daily Living Difficulty Scale | Minimal difficulty | 0–1 | 5.2 (6607) | 26.7 (6893) | <0.001 | 2.9 (3090) |
Moderate difficulty | 2–4 | 30.1 (38,603) | 30.0 (7747) | 28.0 (30,054) | ||
Great difficulty | 5–6 | 64.7 (82,959) | 43.3 (11,160) | 69.1 (74,263) | ||
Activities of Daily Living Hierarchy | Independent | 0 | 49.3 (63,240) | 44.3 (11,418) | <0.001 | 44.7 (47,977) |
Mostly independent | 1–2 | 32.3 (41,431) | 16.4 (4219) | 35.4 (38,058) | ||
Extensive assistance | 3–4 | 13.8 (17,700) | 10.4 (2685) | 15.1 (16,178) | ||
Mostly dependent | 5–6 | 4.5 (5798) | 3.7 (945) | 4.8 (5194) | ||
Missing | – | 25.3 (6533) | – | |||
Cognitive Performance Scale | No impairment | 0 | 30.4 (38,969) | 45.7 (11,801) | <0.001 | 26.4 (28,403) |
Mild impairment | 1–2 | 55.3 (70,909) | 43.8 (11,297) | 57.6 (61,835) | ||
Moderate impairment | 3–4 | 9.3 (11,912) | 7.4 (1908) | 10.4 (11,213) | ||
Severe impairment | 5–6 | 5.0 (6379) | 3.1 (794) | 5.6 (5956) | ||
Functional decline in last 90Â days | 51.2 (65,576) | 21.8 (5622) | <0.001 | 52.6 (56,497) | ||
Cognitive decline in last 90Â days | 18.5 (23,665) | 15.8 (4073) | <0.001 | 19.9 (21,417) | ||
Bladder incontinence, at least weekly episode | 53.5 (68,582) | 33.2 (8567) | <0.001 | 58.6 (62,942) | ||
Fall in last 90Â days | 37.5 (48,119) | 24.9 (6426) | <0.001 | 38.3 (41,103) | ||
Unsteady gait | 74.9 (95,936) | 52.6 (13,580) | <0.001 | 78.1 (83,904) | ||
Shortness of breath | 31.3 (40,062) | 32.1 (8290) | 0.006 | 31.6 (33,988) | ||
Conditions or diseases that make cognition, ADL, mood, or behaviour patterns unstable | 49.3 (63,197) | 31.3 (8062) | <0.0001 | 50.8 (54,515) | ||
Poor self-reported health | 23.6 (30,235) | 13.4 (3447) | <0.0001 | 23.8 (25,505) | ||
Diagnosed conditions | Cardiovascular conditions | 42.7 (54,720) | 33.9 (8741) | <0.0001 | 44.6 (47,940) | |
Dementia | 20.4 (26,081) | 20.2 (5223) | 0.70 | 22.3 (23,929) | ||
Psychiatric or mood conditions | 18.5 (23,743) | 28.0 (7216) | <0.0001 | 18.7 (20,072) | ||
Received any personal support services | 83.8 (107,407) | 22.3 (5758) | <0.0001 | 100.0 (107,407) | ||