Table 5.

Active engagement with community life among women and men aged 60 years and over in seven cities in Latin America and the Caribbean

	Not adjusted for depression			Adjusted for depression*
Condition	OR†	95% CI	p-value	OR†	95% CI	p-value
Women
Any disease‡	0.79	0.67–0.94	0.01	0.86	0.72–1.02	0.08
Co-morbidity	0.85	0.73–0.97	0.02	0.91	0.78–1.05	0.21
ADL§	0.52	0.44–0.61	<0.001	0.58	0.49–0.69	<0.001
Men
Any disease‡	0.70	0.56–0.87	0.001	0.78	0.62–0.99	0.04
Co-morbidity‡	0.69	0.58–0.83	<0.001	0.78	0.65–0.94	0.01
ADL§	0.40	0.30–0.53	<0.001	0.50	0.38–0.67	<0.001
All
Any disease‡	0.74	0.65–0.86	<0.001	0.82	0.71–0.94	0.01
Co-morbidity‡	0.79	0.71–0.87	<0.001	0.86	0.77–0.96	0.01
ADL§	0.48	0.41–0.56	<0.001	0.55	0.47–0.65	<0.001

*Models additionally adjusted for depression as a continuous variable, using the 15-point Geriatric Depression Scale. Note that depression alone (pre-adjusted for age, sex, and city) statistically significantly reduces active engagement: OR = 0.92 (95% CI 0.90–0.93); p < 0.001. For definition of active engagement see text (or footnote to Table 4).

^†Models adjusted for age in the five age-groups (60–64, 65–69, 70–74, 75–79, 80+ years), by sex, and by city.

^‡ "Any disease" defined as presence of at least one of seven diseases or conditions (heart problems, cancer, stroke, hypertension, diabetes, arthritis, chronic lung disease; for prevalence of each individual disease see Appendix). "Co-morbidity" defined as at least two of the seven diseases/conditions.