Informal caregivers of persons with dementia, their use of and needs for specific professional support: a survey of the National Dementia Programme

Table 2 Use of professional support related to informal caregivers' needs for additional professional support (Number (%)).

Use of professional support and extent of informal caregivers' needs	Living at home n = 631	Living in a nursing home or home for the elderly n = 299	Total^b N = 984
Use of professional support
No use of professional support	63 (10.0)	0 (0.0)	73 (7.4) ^b
Use of professional support	568 (90.0)	299 (100.0)	911 (92.6)
Total	631 (100.0)	299 (100.0)	984 (100.0)
Needs for additional professional support
No needs for additional professional support	169 (26.8)	132 (44.1)	321 (32.6)
One or more needs for additional professional support	462 (73.2)	167 (55.9)	663 (67.4)
Total	631 (100.0)	299 (100.0)	984 (100.0)

b. The total number of each subgroup does not add up to the total: under "total" we added the answers of caregivers who completed the questionnaire, but could not be classified because of the missing of information about the caregiving situation.
Note: N = 984 Informal caregiver mean number of additional professional support needs 4.9, SD was 6.6. and the range was 0-55.

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