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

BMC Geriatrics

Table 3 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 expected care & rural residence	.487*	0.245	0.032	0.251
(PAFC interacted by rural/urban residence)
No expected care & worse living standard (PAFC interacted by financial strain)	.732**	0.311	0.679	0.462
No expected care & ADL (PAFC interacted by limitation in activities of daily living)	1.503**	0.597	1.255**	0.618

Itemization of control variable groups is found in Table 1, and the full estimated model results are in Tables 6 and 7 in Appendix 2; Each of the interaction terms was controlled separately into the final model. PAFC is coded as “1” if care was not expected for future need
Data source: CHARLS 2013, weights are used. Lagged depression is 2011 data
PAFC Perceived availability of future care, b estimated coefficient, se standard error, ADL Limitation in daily living activities
* p < .10; *** p < .05; ***p < .01

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