Demographic and clinical characteristics
| Community Occupational Therapy in Dementia Programme | Control | |||||
| Analysed (n=54) | Dropouts (n=17) | Total (n=71) | Analysed (n=50) | Dropouts (n=20) | Total (n=70) | |
| Age, years (SD) | 78.0 (7.1) | 77.2 (8.5) | 77.8 (7.4) | 78.7 (6.0) | 78.3 (7.1) | 78.5 (6.3) |
| Sex, female | 29 (54%) | 12 (71%) | 41 (58%) | 30 (60%) | 10 (50%) | 40 (57%) |
| Mini-Mental State Examination (SD) | 20.4 (3.1) | 19.0 (3.3) | 20.2 (3.2) | 20.7 (2.7) | 20.3 (2.9) | 20.7 (2.7) |
| Geriatric Depression Scale (SD) | 6.9 (3.0) | 5.6 (2.9) | 6.5 (3.0) | 5.2 (2.8) | 6.1 (2.6) | 5.5 (2.8) |
| Education | ||||||
| No school graduation | 2 (4%) | 1 (6%) | 3 (4%) | 1 (2%) | 0 (0%) | 1 (1%) |
| Middle school graduation (9 or 10 years) | 41 (76%) | 13 (76%) | 54 (76%) | 37 (74%) | 15 (75%) | 52 (74%) |
| High school graduation (12 or 13 years) | 11 (20%) | 3 (18%) | 14 (20%) | 12 (24%) | 5 (25%) | 17 (24%) |
| Financial situation as perceived by the carer | ||||||
| No limitation | 40 (74%) | 14 (82%) | 54 (76%) | 38 (76%) | 13 (65%) | 51 (73%) |
| Minor limitation | 12 (22%) | 1 (6%) | 13 (18%) | 3 (6%) | 3 (15%) | 6 (9%) |
| Moderate or severe limitation | 1 (2%) | 2 (12%) | 3 (4%) | 7 (14%) | 4 (20%) | 11 (16%) |
| No data | 1 (2%) | 0 (0.0%) | 1 (1%) | 2 (4%) | 0 (0%) | 2 (3%) |
| Primary carer | ||||||
| Age, years (SD) | 65.4 (16.3) | 63.1 (14.0) | 64.9 (15.7) | 65.9 (13.0) | 61.4 (17.4) | 64.5 (14.4) |
| Sex, female | 38 (70%) | 9 (53%) | 47 (66%) | 35 (70%) | 18 (90%) | 53 (76%) |
| Spouse | 32 (59%) | 8 (47%) | 40 (56%) | 31 (62%) | 9 (45%) | 40 (57%) |
| Daughter or son (in law) | 20 (37%) | 7 (41%) | 27 (38%) | 16 (32%) | 9 (45%) | 25 (36%) |
| Others | 2 (4%) | 2 (12%) | 4 (6%) | 3 (6%) | 2 (10%) | 5 (7%) |
| Living together (%) | 41 (76%) | 11 (65%) | 52 (73%) | 33 (66%) | 14 (70%) | 47 (67%) |