From: Demand of elderly people for residential care: an exploratory study
Number of subjects selected | 200 |
Number of subjects approached by letter | Â |
   - 3 addresses were removed because they were incomplete | -3 197 |
Number of subjects not available for participation | Â |
   - 2 deceased |  |
   - 19 admitted into homes for the elderly |  |
   - 1 person claimed not to be on a waiting list | -22 175 |
Number of subjects who could not been reached by phone due to administrative problems | Â |
   - 6 phone numbers were out of order |  |
   - 5 addresses seemed to be wrong (selected person unknown) |  |
   - 1 person had moved out and left no forwarding address | -12 163 |
Number of subjects who could not been reached over a lengthy period of time (n = 22) | -22 141 |
Number of subjects who did not want to participate | Â |
   - lack of interest (n = 50) |  |
   - being too sick, confused or disabled (n = 26) | -76 |
Total interviews conducted | 65 |
   - 3 interviews have not been analysed | -3 |
Total interviews analysed (including 67 elderly people: 5 couples and 57 singles) | 62 |