Disability, support and long-term social care of an elderly Spanish population, 2008-2009: an epidemiologic analysis

Table 1 Distribution of the positive-screened sample population according to WHODAS-36 global score in different strata, by degree of functional dependency as assessed using the official scale

Assessment status as per official functional dependency scale. Degree, level, and score shown in brackets	Number of persons in WHODAS-2 36 items and proportion [percentages] of screened sample
	Low/no problem 0–4	Mild disability 5–24	Moderate disability 25–49	Severe/extreme disability 50–100	All scoreintervals 0–100
Degree I^a Both levels (25–49)	0	0	5	5	10
Degree II^b Lower level (50–64)	0	3	2	6	11
Degree II^b Higher level (65–74)	0	0	2	4	6
Degree III^c Lower level (75–89)	0	0	5	11	16
Degree III^c Higher level (90–100)	0	0	1	23	24
Assessed with degree assigned	0	3	15	49	67
Assessed without any degree assigned	0	3	1	3	7
All officially assessed	0 [0]	6 [2]	16 [8]	52 [56]	74 [12]
All not officially assessed	19 [100]	312 [98]	179 [92]	41 [44]	551 [88]
All assessed and unassessed	19	318	195	93	625

^aModerate functional dependency: needs personal help for basic ADL and personal autonomy on a limited, intermittent or once-per-day basis
^bSevere functional dependency: needs support for several basic ADL several times per day but not for permanent, extensive personal care
^cExtreme functional dependency: needs personal help or supervision for basic activities several times per day or continuously
Officially, disability levels were denoted as 1 and 2. Here notation changed to Lower and Higher, respectively, to avoid confusion between phonetically similar degrees and levels

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