Table 10.

The extended model tested the assumption that the needs brought about by ageing and freedom of choice would impact quality of life.

	Estimate	Std. error	t value	Pr(>|t|)
(Intercept)	–0.105	0.085	–1.2343	0.217
Would you like to influence the services you receive?	–0.017	0.015	–1.1724	0.241
Have been able to choose the care worker	0.017	0.019	0.9012	0.368
Have been able to choose the day of the care worker’s visit	0.029	0.015	1.9973	0.046*
Have been able to choose the day for house cleaning	0.033	0.014	2.4273	0.015*
Have been able to choose the desired meal	0.045	0.016	2.7606	0.006**
Age	0.002	0.001	2.0104	0.045*
Tertiary education	–0.037	0.017	–2.1516	0.032*
Rental housing for older persons	0.031	0.021	1.4638	0.144
Yes, children	–0.039	0.019	–2.0828	0.038*
Live with someone	–0.02	0.016	–1.2419	0.215
Receive sufficient information about home care services	0.004	0.016	0.2677	0.789
Help by friends or relatives impacts coping at home, slightly or not at all	0.023	0.014	1.6862	0.092
Can cope when aided by the services received	0.048	0.017	2.7873	0.005**
Mobility, extreme problems	–0.023	0.02	–1.1556	0.248
Self-care, some problems	0.051	0.016	3.2358	0.001**
Self-care, extreme problems	0.12	0.029	4.1715	0.000***
Usual activities, some problems or extreme problems	0.026	0.017	1.5689	0.117
Home service, under 12 months	0.04	0.02	2.0128	0.044*
Home service, over 12 months	0.075	0.017	4.5185	0.000***
Meal service, 4 months or over	0.052	0.014	3.6432	0.000***
Multiple R-squared: 0.1916	Adjusted R-squared: 0.1735

Signif. codes. p < 0.1, *p < 0.05, **p < 0.01, ***p < 0.001.