Table 3.

Determinants of participation in community-based senior organizations.

Independent variables	Participation in senior organizations R2 = 0.22. AUC = 0.75 p < 0.00001
	B (SE)	p–value
Age
Male sex
High school education level	1.03 (0.19)	<0.00001
University education level	0.88 (0.21)	<0.0001
Moderate economic status
High economic status
Partially healthy lifestyle
Healthy lifestyle	−0.71 (0.33)	<0.05
Participation in a senior organization	–	–
Living in a city	0.59 (0.17)	<0.001
Living in a relationship	−0.52 (0.15)	<0.001
Former intellectual occupation
Death of a loved person in the recent time	−0.74 (0.15)	0.00001
Serious illness in the recent time	−0.35 (0.18)	<0.05
Serious illness of a loved person in the recent time
End of an important relationship in the recent time
Traffic accident in the recent time
Criminal event in the recent time	1.04 (0.48)	<0.05
Satisfaction with living conditions
The Tilburg Frailty Indicator (TFI)
1. Poor physical health	331 (32.3)
2. Unexplained body mass loss
3. Difficulty in walking
4. Difficulty in maintaining balance	−0.47 (0.18)	<0.01
5. Poor hearing	−0.57 (0.15)	<0.001
6. Poor vision
7. Lack of strength in hands
8. Physical tiredness/fatigue	−0.42 (0.15)	<0.01
9. Problems with memory
10. Feeling down
11. Feeling nervous or anxious
12. Inability to cope with problems
13. Living alone
14. Missing other people	0.41 (0.15)	<0.01
15. Lack of support from other people	−1.07 (0.31)	<0.001
The FRAIL scale
1. Physical tiredness/fatigue	−0.42 (0.15)	<0.01
2. Inability to walk up one flight of stairs
3. Inability to walk 200 m
4. Unexplained body mass loss
5. Number of chronic diseases

Statistically significant coefficients and p-values are marked in bold.