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Predicting different types of service use by the elderly — the strength of the behavioral model and the value of interaction terms
Author(s)	Robert J Calsyn, Joel P Winter
Journal title	Journal of Applied Gerontology, vol 19, no 3, September 2000
Pages	pp 284-303
Keywords	Services ; Domiciliary services ; Usage [services] ; Variance analysis ; United States of America.
Annotation	A representative sample of 4,000+ older people was interviewed to provide comparisons on the ability of logistic regression models (with and without interaction terms) to predict four measures of service use: in-home, financial, community, and any service use. The study's policy and practice implications were that the behavioural model predicted any service use and in-home use moderately well; and that need variables explained about half the variance, with predisposing and enabling variables explaining the remainder. The behavioural model did not explain much of the variance of the use of financial assistance or community services. Although most of the interaction hypotheses in the study were not supported, interactions involving activities of daily living (ADLs) or instrumental activities of daily living (IADLs) needs with living situation and income helped to explain which older people were most likely to use services. (RH).
Accession Number	CPA-001108210 A
Classmark	I: N: QLD: 3YA: 7T
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