This paper explores the association between health measures and long-term care (LTC) use in the 70+ old population. We examine how different measures of health—subjective versus objective—predict LTC use, provided either formally or informally. We consider an absolute measure of subjective health, the grade given by the individual to his/her health status, and additionally construct a relative measure capturing the difference between this grade and the average grade given to health by individuals sharing the same characteristics. Conceptually, this difference comes from the perception of the individual, corresponding to both the private health information and the reporting behavior affecting self-rated health. We use the baseline data from the SPRINTT study, an ongoing randomized control trial on 1519 subjects facing physical frailty and sarcopenia (PF&S) in 11 European countries. Our sample population is older than 70 (mean: 79 years) and comprises a majority (71%) of women. Results show that self-rated health indicators correlate to formal care even when objective health measures are included, while it is not the case for informal care. Formal care consumption thus appears to be more sensitive to the individual's perception of health than informal care.

本文探讨了 70 岁以上老年人群中健康措施与长期护理 (LTC) 使用之间的关联。我们研究了不同的健康指标——主观与客观——如何预测正式或非正式提供的 LTC 使用。我们考虑主观健康的绝对衡量标准，即个人对其健康状况的评分，并另外构建了一个相对衡量标准，以捕捉该评分与具有相同特征的个人对健康的平均评分之间的差异。从概念上讲，这种差异来自个人的感知，对应于影响自评健康的私人健康信息和报告行为。我们使用来自 SPRINTT 研究的基线数据，一项正在进行的随机对照试验，涉及 11 个欧洲国家的 1519 名面临身体虚弱和肌肉减少症 (PF&S) 的受试者。我们的样本人群年龄超过 70 岁（平均：79 岁），并且大多数 (71%) 是女性。结果表明，即使包括客观的健康措施，自评健康指标也与正规保健相关，而非正规保健则不然。因此，与非正式护理相比，正式护理消费似乎对个人对健康的看法更敏感。