Those patients involved in the study were mainly men (58-59%) and generally those either married or cohabiting (53-57%). The age of respondents ranged from 32 to 92 years with a mean age of 74.0 (95%CI 72.37-75.63) at 2 ± 1 weeks after discharge. The Barthel Index scores ranged from 15 to 100 with means of between 88.7 and 91.7. Between 15% and 19% of the group were clinically depressed during the time frame of the study. The Barthel Index, measuring functional independence in terms of need for assistance with personal activities of daily living (P-ADL), was consistently associated with PSD.