Table 3.

Biopsychosocial Characteristics Among Community-Dwelling NHATS Participants, by Food Insecurity Status

Characteristics	Analytic sample	Food insecure	Food secure
n	7,070	308	6,762
Estimate	38,834,686	1,672,947	40,015,557
Frailty status***
Robust	36.4%	8.1%	37.7%
Prefrail	47.0%	47.2%	47.0%
Frail	16.6%	44.7%	15.3%
Being homebound***
Nonhomebound	83.3%	46.1%	84.9%
Semi-homebound	12.4%	41.8%	11.1%
Homebound	4.3%	12.1%	4.0%
Community disability***
Community disability	28.6%	71.9%	26.6%
Social isolation**
Severely socially isolated	5.0%	8.7%	4.8%
Socially isolated	24.9%	31.0%	24.7%
Socially integrated	70.1%	60.3%	70.5%

Note: NHATS = National Health and Aging Trends Study.

*p < 0.05; **p < .01; ***p < .001.