| Living arrangement | ||||||||||
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With spouse only | Living alone | With child and his/her spouse | With child without his/her spouse | With other family/person | P-value a | ||||||
Total | n = 744 | n = 165 | n = 749 | n = 612 | n = 357 |  | |||||
Age (years) | |||||||||||
 65–69 | 266 | (35.8%) | 26 | (15.8%) | 197 | (26.3%) | 218 | (35.6%) | 129 | (36.1%) | <  0.001 |
 70–74 | 273 | (36.7%) | 57 | (34.5%) | 243 | (32.4%) | 207 | (33.8%) | 114 | (31.9%) |  |
 75–79 | 141 | (19.0%) | 49 | (29.7%) | 201 | (26.8%) | 116 | (19.0%) | 80 | (22.4%) |  |
 80–84 | 53 | (7.1%) | 26 | (15.8%) | 85 | (11.3%) | 52 | (8.5%) | 27 | (7.6%) |  |
 ≥ 85 | 11 | (1.5%) | 7 | (4.2%) | 23 | (3.1%) | 19 | (3.1%) | 7 | (2.0%) |  |
 (Mean ± standard deviation years) | (72.0 | ±4.9) | (74.8 | ±5.3) | (73.5 | ±5.4) | (72.4 | ±5.4) | (72.2 | ±5.3) |  |
Educational attainment (years) | |||||||||||
 ≥ 10 | 493 | (66.3%) | 104 | (63.0%) | 416 | (55.5%) | 333 | (54.4%) | 184 | (51.5%) | <  0.001 |
 < 10 | 251 | (33.7%) | 61 | (37.0%) | 333 | (44.5%) | 279 | (45.6%) | 173 | (48.5%) |  |
Current drinking | |||||||||||
 No | 433 | (58.2%) | 119 | (72.1%) | 461 | (61.5%) | 389 | (63.6%) | 217 | (60.8%) | 0.014 |
 Yes | 311 | (41.8%) | 46 | (27.9%) | 288 | (38.5%) | 223 | (36.4%) | 140 | (39.2%) |  |
Current smoking | |||||||||||
 No | 692 | (93.0%) | 153 | (92.7%) | 699 | (93.3%) | 556 | (90.8%) | 326 | (91.3%) | 0.408 |
 Yes | 52 | (7.0%) | 12 | (7.3%) | 50 | (6.7%) | 56 | (9.2%) | 31 | (8.7%) |  |
History of major diseasesb | |||||||||||
 No | 588 | (79.0%) | 135 | (81.8%) | 590 | (78.8%) | 488 | (79.7%) | 292 | (81.8%) | 0.731 |
 Yes | 156 | (21.0%) | 30 | (18.2%) | 159 | (21.2%) | 124 | (20.3%) | 65 | (18.2%) |  |
Depressive symptoms (GDS5) | |||||||||||
 Normal (< 2 points) | 656 | (88.2%) | 134 | (81.2%) | 666 | (88.9%) | 537 | (87.7%) | 310 | (86.8%) | 0.097 |
 Have depressive symptoms (≥2 points) | 88 | (11.8%) | 31 | (18.8%) | 83 | (11.1%) | 75 | (12.3%) | 47 | (13.2%) |  |
Housework | |||||||||||
 Mainly do | 449 | (60.3%) | 156 | (94.5%) | 311 | (41.5%) | 356 | (58.2%) | 191 | (53.5%) | <  0.001 |
 Not mainly do | 295 | (39.7%) | 9 | (5.5%) | 438 | (58.5%) | 256 | (41.8%) | 166 | (46.5%) |  |
Social participation | |||||||||||
 Yes | 667 | (89.7%) | 127 | (77.0%) | 670 | (89.5%) | 545 | (89.1%) | 322 | (90.2%) | <  0.001 |
 No | 77 | (10.3%) | 38 | (23.0%) | 79 | (10.5%) | 67 | (10.9%) | 35 | (9.8%) |  |
Relationship with neighbors | |||||||||||
 Frequent | 710 | (95.4%) | 148 | (89.7%) | 735 | (98.1%) | 593 | (96.9%) | 345 | (96.6%) | <  0.001 |
 Not frequent | 34 | (4.6%) | 17 | (10.3%) | 14 | (1.9%) | 19 | (3.1%) | 12 | (3.4%) |  |
Men | n = 370 | n = 41 | n = 349 | n = 279 | n = 160 |  | |||||
Age (years) | |||||||||||
 65–69 | 106 | (28.6%) | 8 | (19.5%) | 82 | (23.5%) | 108 | (38.7%) | 66 | (41.3%) | <  0.001 |
 70–74 | 137 | (37.0%) | 14 | (34.1%) | 116 | (33.2%) | 90 | (32.3%) | 41 | (25.6%) |  |
 75–79 | 82 | (22.2%) | 10 | (24.4%) | 95 | (27.2%) | 49 | (17.6%) | 37 | (23.1%) |  |
 80–84 | 35 | (9.5%) | 5 | (12.2%) | 42 | (12.0%) | 27 | (9.7%) | 12 | (7.5%) |  |
 ≥ 85 | 10 | (2.7%) | 4 | (9.8%) | 14 | (4.0%) | 5 | (1.8%) | 4 | (2.5%) |  |
 (Mean ± standard deviation years) | (72.9 | ±5.2) | (74.7 | ±6.2) | (73.9 | ±5.6) | (72.1 | ±5.3) | (72.0 | ±5.5) |  |
Educational attainment (years) | |||||||||||
 ≥ 10 | 246 | (66.5%) | 23 | (56.1%) | 187 | (53.6%) | 155 | (55.6%) | 80 | (50.0%) | 0.001 |
 < 10 | 124 | (33.5%) | 18 | (43.9%) | 162 | (46.4%) | 124 | (44.4%) | 80 | (50.0%) |  |
Current drinking | |||||||||||
 No | 117 | (31.6%) | 14 | (34.1%) | 118 | (33.8%) | 93 | (33.3%) | 49 | (30.6%) | 0.940 |
 Yes | 253 | (68.4%) | 27 | (65.9%) | 231 | (66.2%) | 186 | (66.7%) | 111 | (69.4%) |  |
Current smoking | |||||||||||
 No | 321 | (86.8%) | 31 | (75.6%) | 301 | (86.2%) | 226 | (81.0%) | 133 | (83.1%) | 0.111 |
 Yes | 49 | (13.2%) | 10 | (24.4%) | 48 | (13.8%) | 53 | (19.0%) | 27 | (16.9%) |  |
History of major diseasesb | |||||||||||
 No | 269 | (72.7%) | 31 | (75.6%) | 256 | (73.4%) | 201 | (72.0%) | 117 | (73.1%) | 0.990 |
 Yes | 101 | (27.3%) | 10 | (24.4%) | 93 | (26.6%) | 78 | (28.0%) | 43 | (26.9%) |  |
Depressive symptoms (GDS5) | |||||||||||
 Normal (< 2 points) | 332 | (89.7%) | 30 | (73.2%) | 308 | (88.3%) | 253 | (90.7%) | 136 | (85.0%) | 0.011 |
 Have depressive symptoms (≥2 points) | 38 | (10.3%) | 11 | (26.8%) | 41 | (11.7%) | 26 | (9.3%) | 24 | (15.0%) |  |
Housework | |||||||||||
 Mainly do | 84 | (22.7%) | 35 | (85.4%) | 59 | (16.9%) | 69 | (24.7%) | 42 | (26.3%) | <  0.001 |
 Not mainly do | 286 | (77.3%) | 6 | (14.6%) | 290 | (83.1%) | 210 | (75.3%) | 118 | (73.8%) |  |
Social participation | |||||||||||
 Yes | 340 | (91.9%) | 36 | (87.8%) | 328 | (94.0%) | 255 | (91.4%) | 150 | (93.8%) | 0.485 |
 No | 30 | (8.1%) | 5 | (12.2%) | 21 | (6.0%) | 24 | (8.6%) | 10 | (6.3%) |  |
Relationship with neighbors | |||||||||||
 Frequent | 351 | (94.9%) | 36 | (87.8%) | 342 | (98.0%) | 265 | (95.0%) | 151 | (94.4%) | 0.020 |
 Not frequent | 19 | (5.1%) | 5 | (12.2%) | 7 | (2.0%) | 14 | (5.0%) | 9 | (5.6%) |  |
Women | n = 374 | n = 124 | n = 400 | n = 333 | n = 197 |  | |||||
Age (years) | |||||||||||
 65–69 | 160 | (42.8%) | 18 | (14.5%) | 115 | (28.8%) | 110 | (33.0%) | 63 | (32.0%) | <  0.001 |
 70–74 | 136 | (36.4%) | 43 | (34.7%) | 127 | (31.8%) | 117 | (35.1%) | 73 | (37.1%) |  |
 75–79 | 59 | (15.8%) | 39 | (31.5%) | 106 | (26.5%) | 67 | (20.1%) | 43 | (21.8%) |  |
 80–84 | 18 | (4.8%) | 21 | (16.9%) | 43 | (10.8%) | 25 | (7.5%) | 15 | (7.6%) |  |
 ≥ 85 | 1 | (0.3%) | 3 | (2.4%) | 9 | (2.3%) | 14 | (4.2%) | 3 | (1.5%) |  |
 (Mean ± standard deviation years) | (71.0 | ±4.2) | (74.9 | ±5.1) | (73.2 | ±5.2) | (72.8 | ±5.5) | (72.4 | ±5.1) |  |
Educational attainment (years) | |||||||||||
 ≥ 10 | 247 | (66.0%) | 81 | (65.3%) | 229 | (57.3%) | 178 | (53.5%) | 104 | (52.8%) | 0.002 |
 < 10 | 127 | (34.0%) | 43 | (34.7%) | 171 | (42.8%) | 155 | (46.5%) | 93 | (47.2%) |  |
Current drinking | |||||||||||
 No | 316 | (84.5%) | 105 | (84.7%) | 343 | (85.8%) | 296 | (88.9%) | 168 | (85.3%) | 0.509 |
 Yes | 58 | (15.5%) | 19 | (15.3%) | 57 | (14.3%) | 37 | (11.1%) | 29 | (14.7%) |  |
Current smoking | |||||||||||
 No | 371 | (99.2%) | 122 | (98.4%) | 398 | (99.5%) | 330 | (99.1%) | 193 | (98.0%) | 0.428 |
 Yes | 3 | (0.8%) | 2 | (1.6%) | 2 | (0.5%) | 3 | (0.9%) | 4 | (2.0%) |  |
History of major diseasesb | |||||||||||
 No | 319 | (85.3%) | 104 | (83.9%) | 334 | (83.5%) | 287 | (86.2%) | 175 | (88.8%) | 0.491 |
 Yes | 55 | (14.7%) | 20 | (16.1%) | 66 | (16.5%) | 46 | (13.8%) | 22 | (11.2%) |  |
Depressive symptoms (GDS5) | |||||||||||
 Normal (< 2 points) | 324 | (86.6%) | 104 | (83.9%) | 358 | (89.5%) | 284 | (85.3%) | 174 | (88.3%) | 0.340 |
 Have depressive symptoms (≥2 points) | 50 | (13.4%) | 20 | (16.1%) | 42 | (10.5%) | 49 | (14.7%) | 23 | (11.7%) |  |
Housework | |||||||||||
 Mainly do | 365 | (97.6%) | 121 | (97.6%) | 252 | (63.0%) | 287 | (86.2%) | 149 | (75.6%) | <  0.001 |
 Not mainly do | 9 | (2.4%) | 3 | (2.4%) | 148 | (37.0%) | 46 | (13.8%) | 48 | (24.4%) |  |
Social participation | |||||||||||
 Yes | 327 | (87.4%) | 91 | (73.4%) | 342 | (85.5%) | 290 | (87.1%) | 172 | (87.3%) | 0.002 |
 No | 47 | (12.6%) | 33 | (26.6%) | 58 | (14.5%) | 43 | (12.9%) | 25 | (12.7%) |  |
Relationship with neighbors | |||||||||||
 Frequent | 359 | (96.0%) | 112 | (90.3%) | 393 | (98.3%) | 328 | (98.5%) | 194 | (98.5%) | < 0.001 |
 Not frequent | 15 | (4.0%) | 12 | (9.7%) | 7 | (1.8%) | 5 | (1.5%) | 3 | (1.5%) |  |