There were 265 in-home caregivers whose care recipients (referred to hereafter as patients) died in the course of the study. Of those caregivers, 43 (16.2 percent) were excluded, because they dropped out of the study after the death of the patient and before the next scheduled follow-up appointment. An additional five caregivers were excluded from the analysis because the date of the patient's death was missing. The characteristics of the remaining 217 caregivers included in our analysis were similar to those of the 48 caregivers who were excluded, in regard to demographic variables, clinical measures, and scores on the Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale (CES-D) obtained before the patient's death. The proportion of caregivers who characterized their race as white was higher among those who were included in our study than among those who were excluded (65.9 percent vs. 50.0 percent, P=0.05).