Meeting the home-care needs of disabled older persons living in the community: does integrated services delivery make a difference?

Table 2 Results of the final multilevel model for change in log (1 + unmet needs score)

Fixed Effects		Parameter	Parameter Estimate	P value
Initial status
	Intercept	γ₀₀	0.9526	< 0.001
	Control area	γ₀₁	-0.2989	< 0.001
	Disability^§	γ₀₂	0.0305	< 0.001
	Gender (Female)	γ₀₃	0.1662	< 0.001
	Living alone	γ₀₄	0.1454	< 0.001
	Cognitive functioning^§	γ₀₅	-0.0059	0.008
	Empowerment^§	γ₀₆	-0.0305	< 0.001
Rate of change
	Intercept	γ₁₀	-0.1815	< 0.001
	Control area	γ₁₁	0.1815	< 0.001
	Disability^§	γ₁₂	-0.0026	0.002
Variance components
Level 1:	Within-person	σ² _ε	0.2657	< 0.001
Level 2:	In initial status	σ² ₀	0.1767	< 0.001
	In rate of change	σ² ₁	0.0069	0.043
	Covariance	σ₀₁	-0.0142	0.117
Goodness-of-fit
	Deviance		6789.3
Pseudo R² Statistics
	R²(y. $ŷ$ %)		25.4%

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