Health Indicators of US Older Adults Who Received or Did Not Receive Meals Funded by the Older Americans Act

Table 1

Demographics and health issues of the combined sample receiving/not receiving OAA meals.

Variable	Parameter	Percent (95% CI)
Received funded meals	Yes	10.1 (8.0, 12.7)
	No	89.9 (87.3, 92.0)
Sex	Male	44.0 (42.2, 45.9)
	Female	56.0 (54.1, 57.8)
Race/ethnicity	Mexican American	3.4 (2.1, 5.6)
	Other Hispanics	3.8 (2.6, 5.6)
	Non-Hispanic Blacks	8.6 (6.6, 11.3)
	Non-Hispanic Asians	4.1 (3.1, 5.5)
	Non-Hispanic Whites	80.0 (75.3, 83.6)
Marital status	Married/partnered	60.7 (57.6, 63.7)
	Single, widowed, or divorced	39.3 (36.3, 42.4)
Smoking status	Current smoker	8.3 (7.1, 9.7)
	Not smoking	91.7 (90.3, 93.9)
Body mass index category	Underweight/normal weight	29.0 (26.4, 31.7)
	Overweight	36.5 (34.4, 39.7)
	Mild obesity	21.2 (18.7, 23.9)
	Moderate obesity	9.1 (7.8, 10.5)
	High obesity	4.3 (3.2, 5.5)
Fear of running out of food	Yes	10.2 (8.9, 11.8)
	No	89.8 (88.2, 91.1)
Poverty	Yes	11.1 (9.4, 13.2)
	No	88.9 (86.8, 90.6)
Self-rated health	Poor to fair	23.2 (20.8, 25.9)
	Good to excellent	76.8 (74.1, 79.2)
Stroke	Yes	9.0 (8.1, 10.0)
	No	91.0 (90.0, 91.9)
Emphysema	Yes	5.3 (4.3, 6.6)
	No	94.7 (93.4, 95.7)
Memory problems	Yes	13.0 (11.5, 14.5)
	No	87.0 (85.5, 88.5)
Need equipment for walking	Yes	19.6 (17.4, 22.1)
	No	80.4 (77.9, 82.6)
Limited in amount of work can do	Yes	31.2 (27.9, 34.8)
	No	68.8 (65.2, 72.1)

Notes. Data presented as percent (95% confidence intervals). Parameters were from each other for all variables, based on the adjusted , a variant of the second-order Rao-Scott adjusted chi-square statistic and its degrees of freedom. Poverty was considered at <1.00 poverty index. Complex analysis for the population frequencies was based on the unweighted sample, = 2,392. Significance was considered at . OAA: Older Americans Act.