Bishop C E
Health Care Financ Rev. 1986 Spring;7(3):65-73.
Logit regression is used to explain living arrangement choice of elderly single individuals. The propensity to live independently is found to increase with income and decrease with disability; an interaction effect for females suggests that income may lessen the impact of disability on the propensity to seek shared living arrangements. Independent living is less likely for people who are not white, foreign-born males, those with at least one adult child, and those in States with higher living costs; and more likely for the ever-married and those in States with high per capita nursing home use. If home care services are preferentially allocated to disabled elderly who live alone, resources may flow to higher income individuals who have been able to maintain independent households.
逻辑回归用于解释老年单身人士的居住安排选择。研究发现，独立生活的倾向随收入增加而上升，随残疾程度加重而下降；女性的交互效应表明，收入可能会减轻残疾对寻求共享居住安排倾向的影响。非白人、外国出生的男性、至少有一个成年子女的人以及生活成本较高州的居民独立生活的可能性较小；而曾经结婚的人和人均养老院使用率高的州的居民独立生活的可能性较大。如果家庭护理服务优先分配给独居的残疾老年人，资源可能会流向那些有能力维持独立家庭的高收入个人。
