Multimorbidity Patterns and the Disablement Process among Public Long-Term Care Insurance Claimants in the City of Yiwu (Zhejiang Province, China).

ABSTRACT: This study aimed to identify multimorbidity patterns and explore the disablement process by utilizing the model raised by Verbrugge and Jette as a theoretical framework. This cross-sectional study used public Long-term Care Insurance (LTCI) claimants' assessment data of Yiwu city in Zhejiang Province, China, for 2604 individuals aged 60 years and older, from September through December 2018. Latent Class Analysis (LCA) was conducted using 10 common chronic conditions. Structural Equation Modeling was used to examine the disablement process. The latent classes of multimorbidity patterns were the "coronary atherosclerotic heart disease" class (19.0%), the "lower limb fractures" class (26.4%), and the "other diseases" class (54.6%). The structural model results show that coronary atherosclerot

SUBMITTER: Liu C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8775810 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature