Belgium | Finland | Italy | The Netherlands | Poland | England | |||||||
N=291 | N=269 | N=200 | N=222 | N=311 | N=91 | |||||||
n | % | n | % | n | % | n | % | n | % | n | % | |
Type of LTC facility | ||||||||||||
LTC onsite day and night physicians and nurses | na | na | 0 | 0 | 48 | 25.4 | 117 | 55.5 | 184 | 59.2 | 0 | 0 |
LTC onsite nurses offsite GPs | 276 | 100 | 267 | 100 | 141 | 74.6 | 94 | 44.6 | 127 | 40.8 | 49 | 53.9 |
LTC offsite nurses and GPs | na | na | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 42 | 46.2 |
Not available | 15 | 2 | 11 | 11 | 0 | 0 | ||||||
Age at death (years) | ||||||||||||
35–80 | 41 | 15 | 57 | 21.4 | 46 | 23 | 41 | 20.4 | 117 | 38 | 14 | 17.7 |
81–89 | 121 | 44.2 | 127 | 47.6 | 91 | 45.5 | 83 | 41.3 | 126 | 40.9 | 30 | 38 |
90–112 | 112 | 40.9 | 83 | 31.1 | 63 | 31.5 | 77 | 38.3 | 65 | 21.1 | 35 | 44.3 |
Not available | 17 | 2 | 0 | 21 | 3 | 12 | ||||||
Sex | ||||||||||||
Male | 98 | 36 | 94 | 35.7 | 63 | 31.7 | 68 | 33 | 112 | 36.5 | 22 | 25 |
Female | 174 | 64 | 169 | 64.3 | 136 | 68.3 | 138 | 67 | 195 | 63.5 | 66 | 75 |
Not available | 19 | 6.5 | 6 | 1 | 16 | 4 | 3 | |||||
Married or civil partnership, or in a long-term relationship | 64 | 22.0 | 62 | 23.0 | 50 | 25.0 | 54 | 24.3 | 44 | 14.1 | 19 | 20.9 |
Divorced | 4 | 1.4 | 7 | 2.6 | 8 | 4.0 | 3 | 1.4 | 25 | 8.0 | 5 | 5.5 |
Widowed | 182 | 62.5 | 135 | 50.2 | 106 | 53.0 | 112 | 50.5 | 163 | 52.4 | 50 | 54.9 |
Never married | 20 | 6.9 | 33 | 12.3 | 31 | 15.5 | 18 | 8.1 | 40 | 12.9 | 9 | 9.9 |
Unknown or not answered | 21 | 7.2 | 32 | 11.9 | 5 | 2.5 | 35 | 15.8 | 39 | 12.5 | 8 | 8.8 |
The resident’s capacity of expressing his or her wishes at the time of admission* | ||||||||||||
Yes or partly | 223 | 78 | 198 | 75 | 91 | 45.7 | 181 | 82.3 | 167 | 54.9 | 73 | 81.1 |
No | 63 | 22 | 66 | 25 | 108 | 54.3 | 39 | 17.7 | 137 | 45.1 | 17 | 18.9 |
Not available | 5 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 7 | 1 |
*Judgement of the staff members.
†
GPs, general practitioners; LTC, long-term care; na, not answered.