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

Table 3

Logistic regression analysis of demographics and health indicators for participation in OAA nutrition program compared to nonparticipation.

Variable	Parameter	OR (95% CI)
Gender	Male	0.83 (0.62, 1.11)	.203
	Female (reference)	1.00	—
Age (years)		2.23 (2.08, 1.17)	<.001
Poverty level	Index < 1.0	2.09 (1.18, 3.72)	.013
	(reference)	1.00
Race/ethnicity	—	—	.245
	Mexican American	0.96 (0.44, 2.10)	.911
	Other Hispanics	0.52 (0.22, 1.23)	.131
	Non-Hispanic Blacks	1.34 (0.71, 2.54)	.359
	Non-Hispanic Asians	0.61 (0.26, 1.43)	.247
	Non-Hispanic Whites (reference)	1.00	—
Marital status	Married/partnered	0.52 (0.32, 0.86)	.013
	Other (single, widowed, or divorced; reference)	1.00	—
Current smoker	Yes	0.93 (0.59, 1.45)	.733
	No (reference)	1.00	—
BMI category	—	—	.506
	<25 (under/normal wt.)	1.50 (0.70, 3.20)	.286
	25–29.9 (overweight)	1.55 (0.72, 3.34)	.249
	30–34.5 (Obesity I)	1.39 (0.64, 2.98)	.391
	35–39.9 (Obesity II)	1.02 (0.43, 2.46)	.957
	≥40 (Obesity III, reference)	1.00	—
Food insecurity (fear of running out of food)	Yes	1.12 (0.75, 1.69)	.559
	No (reference)	1.00
Self-rated health	Good to excellent	0.52 (0.36, 0.77)	.002
	Fair to poor (reference)	1.00	—
Stroke	Yes	1.33 (0.84, 2.10)	.213
	No (reference)	1.00	—
Emphysema	Yes	2.02 (1.05, 3.89)	.035
	No (reference)	1.00	—
Memory problems	Yes	1.25 (0.96, 1.64)	.095
	No (reference)	1.00
Need equipment walking	Yes	0.97 (0.71, 1.32)	.830
	No (reference)	1.00	—
Limited in amount of work can do	Yes	0.92 (0.65, 1.30)	.634
	No (reference)	1.00	—

Note. Dependent variable: participation in congregate meals and/or government delivered meals. Nutrition program = home-delivered meals, congregate meals, or both. BMI: body mass index; wt.: body weight; OAA: Older Americans Act. Model fit was considered at with correct classification of cases ≥ 75%.