Table 3 Distribution of health-related variables for persons who used a professional home care service (n = 355) and the whole sample of answered questionnaires (n = 1378) of the EPACS study
Used professional home care | Answered questionnaires | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
n | % | n | % | |
Proceeding, incurable, lethal disease | ||||
Yes | 319 | 89.9 | 998 | 72.4 |
No | 30 | 8.5 | 351 | 25.5 |
Missing | 6 | 1.7 | 29 | 2.1 |
Type of diseasea | ||||
Cancer | 112 (175) | 31.6 (49.3) | 334 (537) | 24.2 (39.0) |
Dementia | 35 (99) | 9.9 (27.9) | 122 (310) | 8.9 (22.5) |
Cardiovascular diseases | 18 (114) | 5.1 (32.1) | 115 (424) | 8.4 (30.8) |
Other | 32 (146) | 8.9 (41.1) | 166 (554) | 12.0 (40.2) |
Multimorbidity (e.g. Cancer + Dementia + CVD) | 151 | 42.5 | 504 | 36.6 |
Missing/I don't know | 7 | 2.0 | 137 | 9.9 |
Place of death | ||||
At home | 229 | 64.5 | 526 | 38.2 |
In a hospital | 92 | 25.9 | 541 | 39.3 |
In a palliative care facility | 23 | 6.5 | 103 | 7.5 |
In a nursing home | 11 | 3.1 | 185 | 13.4 |
Elsewhere | 0 | 0.0 | 22 | 1.6 |
Missing | 0 | 0.0 | 1 | 0.1 |
Duration of home care | ||||
No home care | 0 | 0.0 | 574 | 41.7 |
< 1 week | 59 | 16.6 | 59 | 4.3 |
1 - < 2 weeks | 42 | 11.8 | 42 | 3.1 |
2 - < 3 weeks | 30 | 8.5 | 30 | 2.2 |
3 - 4 weeks | 224 | 63.1 | 224 | 16.3 |
Missing/I don't know | 0 | 0.0 | 449 | 32.6 |