Leveraging Community Support Services to Support an Integrated Health and Social System Response to COVID-19: A Mixed Methods Study

Table 3

Characteristics of community support services clients screened with the interRAI CVS.

Variable	Frequency (%) (N = 594)
Age ^a
<65	56 (9.4)
65–84	318 (53.5)
≥85	185 (31.1)
Gender
Female	406 (68.4)
Male	188 (31.6)
Living accommodation
Own home	566 (95.3)
Congregate setting	28 (4.7)
Living arrangement
With relatives	293 (49.3)
Alone	287 (48.3)
With nonrelatives	14 (2.4)
COVID-19 symptom count
0	527 (88.7)
1	48 (8.1)
2	13 (2.2)
3+	6 (1.0)
COVID-19 emergency care flagged	21 (3.5)
Major comorbidity count
Low risk	313 (52.7)
Elevated risk	269 (45.3)
High risk	12 (2.0)
Assessment urgency algorithm
Lowest urgency (1-2)	366 (61.6)
Medium urgency (3-4)	139 (23.4)
Highest urgency (5-6)	89 (15.0)
Function
Impaired self-reliance	144 (24.2)
1 or more impaired ADLs	101 (17.0)
Cannot obtain both medications and groceries	47 (7.9)
Psychosocial status
Fair or poor self-rated health	140 (23.6)
Loneliness	203 (34.2)
Overwhelmed caregiver	25 (4.2)
Financial trade-offs
Before COVID-19 pandemic	29 (4.9)
During COVID-19 pandemic	35 (5.9)
Health service use over past 90 days
Inpatient hospital	34 (5.7)
Emergency room visit	63 (10.6)
Visit with a physician or nurse practitioner	238 (40.1)

Note. ADL = activities of daily living. ^aData missing for n = 35.