Data Background

The data set used was obtained through mobile health care services offered in collaboration with
elderly care centres run by local nongovernmental organizations. The health care services were
provided for community-dwelling elderly people living in various districts of Hong Kong for free
during the period from 2008 to 2018.

It contains 2299 cases (observations), and eleven variables (features).

The features are age, body height, body weight, education level, financial support, geriatric
depression scale score, out-of-pocket financial source (being independent or depending on family),
marital status, Mini Nutritional Assessment part A score, Mini Nutritional Assessment part B score.

The mini mental state exam categories are the outcome labels.

'data.frame': 2299 obs. of 11 variables:

$ Age : int 86 92 81 79 86 80 84 85 91 99 ...

$ body_height : num 148 156 146 152 157 ...

$ body_weight : num 61.1 61.5 47 65.3 57.3 51.1 45.8 61.6 59.6 48.3 ...

$ Education_ID : int 1 NA NA NA 1 1 2 NA NA NA ...

$ Financial : int 8 4 2 2 2 2 1 5 1 2 ...

$ GDS : int 5 2 3 3 2 2 2 4 1 1 ...

$ Independent_or_depend_on_family: int 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 0 ...

$ Marital_Status_ID : int 3 2 3 1 3 3 2 2 3 3 ...

$ MNAa_tot : int 12 14 13 14 13 14 12 12 13 10 ...

$ MNAb_tot : num 10.5 15 15 16 13.5 15 13 13.5 NA 8.5 ...

$ MMSE_class_2 : int 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 1 ...

Education_ID education 1 no edu
2 primary school
3 secondary school
4 tertiary
Financial Financial Status 1 Independent or depend on family
2 Comprehensive Social Security Assistance
3 Disability Allowance
4 Old Age Allowance
5 Independent or depend on family with Old Age Allowance
6 Independent or depend on family with Disability Allowance
7 Independent or depend on family with CSSA
Marital Marital Status 1 Single
2 Married
3 Widowed
4 Separate
5 Divorced
6 Married but not live with spouse
GDS https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geriatric_Depression_Scale
MNAa_tot https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/9990575/
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/24866345/

MNAb_tot https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/9990575/
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/24866345/

MMSE_class_ mini mental 0 Negative – indicate no dementia risk

2 state exam
outcome
1 Positive – indicate possible dementia risk