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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 Jan 9.
Published in final edited form as: Ageing Soc. 2009 Jan;29(1):71–91. doi: 10.1017/S0144686X08007666

Table 4. Multinomial logistic regressions of patterns of care received from outside the household.

Variables and categories Patterns of care received from outside the household
Informal only1
Formal only1
Formal and informal1
OR 95% CI OR 95% CI OR 95% CI
France2
Care from household member (RC ‘no’)
 Yes 0.68 0.20–2.40 1.54 0.62–3.83 0.56 0.19–1.63
Age group (RC ‘ 75–79’)
 80–84 1.23 0.72–2.09 1.12 0.66–1.92 2.68** 1.44–4.97
 85 + 1.38 0.64–2.97 2.01* 1.01–4.01 3.52** 1.63–7.58
Gender (RC ‘men’)
 Women 1.66 0.93–2.96 1.09 0.65–1.83 1.22 0.65–2.26
Income (RC ‘high’)
 Low 2.13* 1.08–4.21 1.16 0.62–2.18 2.14* 1.02–4.51
 Medium 1.33 0.69–2.57 0.71 0.40–1.28 0.93 0.44–1.97
Spouse (RC ‘ yes ’)
 No 3.05*** 1.63–5.72 1.26 0.71–2.22 3.02** 1.46–6.26
ADL limitations (RC ‘none’)
 One 1.77 0.77–4.10 1.75 0.79–3.87 3.12* 1.42–6.83
 Two or more 2.91* 1.14–7.47 2.70* 1.14–6.43 3.03** 1.25–7.39
IADL limitations (RC ‘none’)
 One 1.42 0.65–3.h 2.48* 1.22–5.07 4.97*** 2.25–11.0
 Two or more 1.47 0.64–3.36 2.37* 1.11–5.05 9.24*** 4.31–19.8
Israel3
Care from household member (RC ‘no’)
 Yes 0.95 0.27–3.26 1.66 0.58–4.76 0.38 0.11–1.32
Age group (RC ‘ 75–79’)
 80–84 1.53 0.81–2.92 0.93 0.42–2.05 1.57 0.68–3.62
 85 + 1.98 0.85–4.60 1.50 0.57–3.91 1.01 0.34–3.05
Gender (RC ‘men’)
 Women 1.22 0.66–2.26 1.30 0.63–2.69 1.51 0.68–3.38
Income (RC ‘high’)
 Low 1.59 0.73–3.43 1.57 0.62–3.94 0.86 0.31–2.34
 Medium 1.86 0.87–3.97 2.49* 0.94–4.47 1.83 0.71–4.74
Spouse (RC ‘yes’)
 No 3.67*** 1.91–7.06 2.05 0.94–4.47 3.96** 1.65–9.51
ADL limitations (RC ‘none’)
 One 0.72 0.24–2.14 0.80 0.22–2.96 2.40 0.68–8.48
 Two or more 0.25* 0.08–0.80 1.46 0.49–4.33 3.77* 1.16–12.3
IADL limitations (RC ‘none’)
 One 2.42* 1.09–5.38 2.60 0.89–7.60 6.12** 1.65–22.8
 Two or more 7.04*** 2.89–17.2 8.54*** 3.07–23.8 19.14*** 5.20–70.4

Notes: ADL: Activities of Daily Living. CI: confidence interval. IADL: Instrumental ADL. OR: odds ratio. RC: reference category.

1

The reference category for the pattern of care received is ‘none’.

2

Nagelkerke pseudo R2 = 0.38.

3

Nagelkerke pseudo R2 = 0.45.

Significance levels:

*

p < 0.05,

**

p <0.01,

***

p <0.001.