Patterns of home care and community support preferences among older adults with disabilities in China: a latent class analysis

Table 3 Patterns of home care for older adults with disabilities in China measured by latent class analysis: Selected results of the 3-class LCA

Observed Variables	Conditional Probability by Class
Observed Variables	Class 1 (n = 1745, 46.85%)	Class 2 (n = 1636, 43.92%)	Class 3 (n = 344, 9.24%)
Care Duration
Half a year	0.278	0.258	0.294
Half a year ~ Five years	0.569	0.528	0.506
≥ 5 years	0.153	0.214	0.201
Degree of Disability
Mild disability	0.991	0.000	0.279
Moderate disability	0.009	0.430	0.201
Severe disability	0.000	0.570	0.520
Care Performance
Willing	0.958	0.968	0.093
Impatient/unwilling	0.006	0.001	0.180
Incompetent	0.011	0.011	0.552
Unaware	0.025	0.021	0.174
Demand satisfaction
Fully Satisfied	0.606	0.469	0.000
Basically Satisfied	0.394	0.531	0.773
Dissatisfied	0.000	0.000	0.227
Living status
Lives alone	0.124	0.042	0.105
Two people live together	0.275	0.303	0.270
At least three people live together	0.601	0.655	0.625

n: number of subjects by class
Item-response probabilities > .5 are presented in bold to facilitate interpretation