Table 2.

The relative importance of gender, marital status and parental status for the likelihood of receiving home help services, institutional care and hospital care the 5 years preceding death

	Home help services		Institutional care		Hospital care		Hospital care		Hospital care
					>1–5 years		0–1 yeard		0–0.25 yeard
	OR	P value	OR	P value	OR	P value	OR	P value2	OR	P value
Gender (ref = women)
Model 1a	0.53	0.010	0.56	0.022	0.99	ns	1.17	ns	1.70	0.020
Model 2	0.84	ns	0.66	ns	0.91	ns	1.02	ns	1.49	ns
Marital status (ref = unmarried)
Model 1b	0.30	<0.001	0.49	0.025	1.18	ns	1.41	ns	1.62	ns
Model 2	0.38	0.008	0.59	ns	1.25	ns	1.38	ns	1.18	ns
Children (ref = no children)
Model 1c	0.52	0.001	0.94	ns	0.97	ns	1.11	ns	1.45	0.047
Model 2	0.60	0.014	1.08	ns	0.95	ns	1.06	ns	1.33	ns

ns, p≥0.05. Results with p < 0.05 are in bold.

Note: All models were controlled for age, time to death, level of education, institutional care (except when it was the outcome). In Model 1 either gender (a), marital status (b), or having children (c) was included. In Model 2 all variables were included simultaneously. (d) Overlapping time periods