Perceived availability of future care and depressive symptoms among older adults in China: evidence from CHARLS

BMC Geriatrics

Table 10 Coefficients for interactions between perceived availability future care (PAFC) and resource/deficit variables

Interaction terms	Interactions predicting depressive symptoms
	Lagged depression not controlled		Lagged depression controlled
	(n = 13,855)		(n = 10,458)
	b	se	b	se
No care support & rural residence (PAFC interacted by rural/urban residence)	.483**	0.246	0.031	0.251
No care support &worse living standard (PAFC interacted by financial strain)	.731**	0.312	0.722**	0.29
No care support & with ADL (PAFC interacted by limitation in activities of daily living)	1.497**	0.596	1.255**	0.618

Itemization of control variable groups is found in Table 1, and the full estimated model results are in Appendix 2.1 and 2.2; Each of the interaction terms was controlled separately into the final model. PAFC = 1 if no care support. Data source: CHARLS 2013 with imputed family support data, weights are used. Lagged depression from 2011
PAFC Perceived availability of future care, b estimated coefficient, se standard error
* p < .10; *** p < .05; ***p < .01

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