Table 1.

Health index weights.

Variable	Loading	KMO
Difficulty performing household chores	0.3462	0.7839
Difficulty preparing meals	0.3350	0.7685
Difficulty shopping for groceries	0.3216	0.8474
Self-reported health fair or poor	0.3160	0.8783
Difficulty managing money	0.2933	0.8429
High risk of depression	0.2763	0.8614
Troubled with physical pains	0.2681	0.8363
Difficulty taking medications	0.2256	0.8834
Self-reported memory fair or poor	0.2181	0.8569
Ever experience arthritis	0.1957	0.8399
Ever experience heart problems	0.1711	0.8212
Ever experience chronic lung diseases	0.1492	0.6814
Ever experience stomach disease	0.1491	0.8183
Ever experience hypertension	0.1306	0.7471
Ever experience stroke	0.1259	0.8582
Ever experience kidney disease	0.1219	0.8474
Ever experience memory-related disease	0.1179	0.8747
Ever experience asthma	0.1149	0.6285
Ever experience mental disease	0.1068	0.8834
Ever experience dyslipidemia	0.1024	0.7029
Ever experience diabetes	0.0955	0.7288
Ever participate in any social activity during last month	0.0818	0.8256
Ever experience liver disease	0.0785	0.7897
Ever experience cancer	0.0329	0.7796
Overall	—	0.8114

The variables in the table are ordered by the principal component loadings.