Table 2 Demographic information about participants
N | ||
|---|---|---|
Sex | ||
Male | 113 | |
Female | 80 | |
Age | ||
Mean | 69.9 | |
SD | 9.5 | |
Range | 47–93 | |
Marital status | ||
Single | 10 | |
Married | 149 | |
Cohabiting | 9 | |
Widowed | 11 | |
Divorced/separated | 14 | |
Living arrangements | ||
Lives alone | 27 | |
With spouse/partner | 156 | |
With child(ren) | 18 | |
With parents | 1 | |
With other family members | 8 | |
With others in assisted living accommodation | 2 | |
Other | 2 | |
First language | ||
English | 182 | |
Welsh | 8 | |
Other | 3 | |
Ethnic group | ||
White | 191 | |
Mixed or multiple ethnic groups | 1 | |
Missing data | 1 | |
Education | ||
Primary school | 2 | |
Secondary school | 57 | |
Higher education | 101 | |
Training or apprenticeship | 32 | |
Current occupation | ||
Employed or self employed | 12 | |
Retired | 150 | |
Looking after home/family | 6 | |
Long term sick or disabled | 22 | |
Other | 3 | |
Dementia diagnosis | ||
No specific diagnosis was given | 5 | |
Alzheimer’s Disease (AD) | 82 | |
Vascular dementia (VD) | 20 | |
Mixed (Alzheimer’s disease & vascular) | 29 | |
Lewy body dementia (LBD) | 11 | |
familial Alzheimer’s disease (fAD) | 1 | |
familial Frontotemporal dementia (fFTD) | 2 | |
Frontotemporal dementia (FTD) | 10 | |
Primary progressive aphasia (PPA) | 6 | |
Logopenic aphasia (LPA) | 3 | |
Progressive nonfluent aphasia (PNFA) | 1 | |
Semantic dementia (SD) | 2 | |
Posterior cortical atrophy (PCA) | 11 | |
Other rare dementias (specified by participants) | 10 | |