Table 2.

Hazard Ratios for Entry Into Nursing Home, Health and Retirement Study 1998–2012 (Men only: N = 9,558)

	Model 1	Model 2	Model 3	Model 4	Model 5
	HR	HR	HR	HR	HR
Union status
Continuously married (ref)
Remarried	1.06	1.00	1.02	1.06	1.03
Partnered	1.00	1.17	0.88	1.13	1.17
Divorced/separated	2.26***	2.15***	1.47**	2.01***	1.47**
Widowed	1.83***	1.65***	1.46***	1.61***	1.29**
Never married	2.54***	2.50***	1.74**	2.26***	1.68**
Sociodemographics
Birth year	1.09***	1.07***	1.09***	1.07***	1.07***
Race/ethnicity
Non-Hispanic White (ref)
Non-Hispanic Black	1.00	0.85	0.73**	0.98	0.88
Hispanic	0.74*	0.61***	0.43***	0.74*	0.63**
Other	0.80	0.55*	0.50**	0.79	0.53*
Educational attainment
Less than high school (ref)
High school	0.91	1.15	1.10	1.12	1.22*
Some college or associate’s degree	0.94	1.34**	1.17	1.28*	1.47***
Bachelor’s degree or more	0.77**	1.21*	1.00	1.08	1.29*
Health and disability
Number of chronic conditions		1.17***			1.14***
ADL difficulties		1.43***			1.32***
IADL difficulties		1.30***			1.15***
Economic resources
Medicaid			2.22***		1.44***
Nonhousing net worth quartiles
First (ref)
Second			0.74**		1.07
Third			0.66***		1.03
Fourth			0.67***		1.13
Own house			0.58***		0.69***
Social ties
Number in household				0.85***	0.82***
Number of living children				0.98	0.97
No future help available or don’t know (ref)
Future help available				0.88	0.95
Already using help				7.44***	2.92***
Any living siblings				0.92	0.94
Monthly contact with neighbors				1.00	1.01*
Log likelihood	−7,690.73	−7,063.07	−7,532.51	−7,077.78	−6,859.88

Notes: ADL = activities of daily living; HR = hazard ratio; IADL = instrumental activities of daily living.

*p < .05. **p < .01. ***p < .001.