[Living arrangements of elderly adults in Catalonia (Spain). The impact of health deterioration on residential independence].

Objectives: To identify the effect of health deterioration on residential dependency.

Material And Methods: We performed a cross-sectional analysis of the microdata from the Catalan Survey of Health (2006), which features a sample of 3566 individuals aged 65 and over. A set of socio-demographic (sex, age, marital status, educational level and municipality size), as well as health variables (self-rated health, BADL and IADL dependency) associated with residential dependency are analysed by bivariate and multivariate logistic regression.