Multimorbidity and associated informal care receiving characteristics for US older adults: a latent class analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Older adults with varying patterns of multimorbidity may require distinct types of care and rely on informal caregiving to meet their care needs. This study aims to identify groups of older adults with distinct, empirically-determined multimorbidity patterns and compare characteristics of informal care received among estimated classes.

Methods

Data are from the 2011 National Health and Aging Trends Study (NHATS). Ten chronic conditions were included to estimate multimorbidity patterns among 7532 individuals using latent class analysis. Multinomial logistic regression model was estimated to examine the association between sociodemographic characteristics, health status and lifestyle variables, care-receiving characteristics and latent class membership.

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SUBMITTER: Liu R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11221032 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature