Research Article

Living on the Edge: Social Exclusion and the Receipt of Informal Care in Older People

Table 2

Associations between care-receipt and social exclusion dimensions, risk factors of social exclusion, and formal care receipt ().

Care-receivers
()
Assurance-receivers ()Nonreceivers with
need ()
Nonreceivers without need
()
Test statistics, significance

Social Exclusion Variables
Income comfort: M (SD)
(high score = low comfort)
2.72 (0.80)2.63 (0.87)2.93 (1.00)2.53 (0.81),
Family contact: M (SD)1.87 (1.08)1.86 (1.18)1.13 (1.13)1.67 (1.17),
Nonfamily contact: (%)
 None78 (29.3)93 (31.4)27 (39.7)180 (30.3) = 9.34,
 Friends or neighbours105 (39.5)107 (36.1)30 (44.1)247 (41.5)
 Friends and neighbours83 (31.2)96 (32.4)11 (16.2)168 (28.2)
Caregiving: (%)34 (12.7)30 (10.1)5 (7.4)81 (13.6) = 3.82,
Social Loneliness: M (SD)1.69 (1.58)1.38 (1.58)2.79 (2.04)1.26 (1.50),
Emotional Loneliness: M (SD)1.95 (1.91)1.86 (2.00)2.85 (2.29)1.23 (1.68),
Perceived Community Trust: M (SD)10.9 (2.17)11.7 (1.59)10.4 (2.36)11.6 (1.71),
Perceived Community Integration: M (SD) 15.4 (2.56)15.8 (2.20)14.3 (3.18)15.8 (2.22),
Perceived Community Security: M (SD)8.08 (3.79)9.79 (2.75)7.88 (3.69)10.2 (2.94),
Social, Cultural and Leisure Engagement: M (SD)18.0 (16.7)25.7 (17.0)15.9 (14.5)31.6 (18.3) ,
Sport and Outdoor Engagement: M (SD)5.19 (8.35)11.4 (12.2)7.36 (9.00)16.9 (13.8) ,

Risk Factors for Social Exclusion
Age: M (SD)77.6 (7.98)76.9 (7.32)77.4 (7.67)74.1 (6.47),
Female gender: (%)184 (68.4) 206 (69.4) 41 (60.3) 334 (55.8) = 21.5,
Living alone: (%)138 (51.3)206 (69.6)53 (77.9)231 (38.6) = 97.3,
Low education level: (%)238 (88.5)224 (75.4)54 (79.4)399 (66.6) = 47.9,
Living in urban area: (%)174 (64.7)149 (50.2)47 (69.1)247 (41.2) = 51.6,
Duration of local residence: M (SD) 63.0 (21.7)55.3 (26.4)65.9 (17.3)55.5 (22.3),
Self-reported health: M (SD)
(high score = poor health)
3.74 (0.83)3.16 (0.84)3.45 (0.84)2.83 (0.83),
Well-being: M (SD)
(high score = high well-being)
12.0 (6.55)13.5 (6.39)12.7 (6.77)16.0 (5.86),
Medical care-receipt: (%)202 (75.1)185 (62.3)53 (77.9)312 (52.1) = 50.9,
Formal care-receipt:
Personal care-receipt: (%)54 (20.2)31 (10.5)6 (8.82)34 (5.68) = 42.9,
Practical support-receipt: (%)44 (16.4)28 (9.5)3 (4.41)4 (0.66) = 82.5,

Note. Due to missing data on individual variables, will vary across bivariate analyses.