Enabling social participation for older people: The content of reablement by age, gender, and level of functioning in occupational therapists’ interventions

Figures & data

Table 1. Focus of the intervention, number of contacts and duration in relation to age, gender and level of functional limitation.

	≤80 n = 694	≥81 n = 697	Women n = 859	Men n = 532	No home care n = 359	Minor functional limitation^a n = 230	Major functional limitation^a n = 803
Focus	p = 0.814		p = 0.781		p ≤ 0.001
Basic need	93.1	93.4	92.9	93.8	90.5	89.1	95.6
Social participation	6.9	6.6	7.1	6.2	9.5	10.9	4.4
No. of contacts	p = 0.124		p = 0.112		p ≤ 0.001
1–2	56.5	58.1	56.8	57.9	65.7	61.7	52.2
3–5	32.1	33.9	34.9	29.9	28.1	30.0	36.0
6–9	7.5	6.0	6.2	7.9	3.6	6.1	8.5
≥10	3.9	2.0	2.1	4.3	2.5	2.2	3.4
Duration (weeks)	p = 0.443		p = 0.195		p = 0.265
≤1	26.9	28.4	26.7	29.2	30.6	32.6	24.9
1–3	31.8	33.9	33.3	32.4	34.0	30.4	33.2
4–6	19.9	18.2	20.1	17.3	18.4	17.8	19.7
7–9	7.9	8.8	9.3	6.8	7.2	7.4	9.1
≥10	13.4	10.6	10.6	14.3	9.7	11.7	13.1

Note: all numbers are in percentages (%).

^aMinor functional limitation includes home help limited to safety alarms and or help with domestic tasks. Major functional limitation includes home help for PADL.

Table 2. Focus for the intervention (n = 1392).

Number of foci for the intervention
Focus for the assessment, goalsetting and/or intervention^a	Number of cases (%)
1	638 (45.8)
2	485 (34.8)
3	167 (12.0)
4	69 (5.0)
5	22 (1.6)
6	7 (0.5)
7	4 (0.3)
Walking indoors	876 (62.9)
Self-care	779 (56.0)
Walking outdoors	331 (23.8)
Body function	188 (13.5)
Domestic life	295 (21.2)
Social contacts	69 (5.0)
Communication	31 (2.2)
Leisure	1 (0.1)
Other foci^b	8 (0.6)

^aMore than one answer could be reported.

^bOpen-ended question including, for example, palliative care, fall prevention, safety alarm, assessment dementia, information about technical aids.