Abstract
The rapid growth of population aging makes providing adequate long-term care (LTC) services for the elderly a serious social dilemma in China. Thus, it is necessary to carry out a theoretical discussion on the LTC service needs of the elderly and find out their influencing factors. With four regions of the middle and upper reaches of the Yangtze River as the sample case, this study aims to explore the factors that affect LTC service needs of the elderly in the frame of the latest Anderson Model, which added psychosocial factors to predisposing characteristics, enabling factors, and need factors in the old version. Some interesting results have been found, for example, self-image evaluation is composed of several factors such as general physical health, attitude towards life, or psychosocial states. Finally, sub-analyses—namely, by age, by gender, and by educational level—were carried out since the choice of different long-term care service patterns is related to different age/gender/education groups.
Highlights
The aged tendency of population is becoming a major challenge for many countries including China
For predicting the needs and costs of long-term care (LTC) services for the elderly, it is necessary to carry out a theoretical discussion on the LTC needs of the elderly and find out their influencing factors [1]
The purpose of this study is to explore the factors that affect LTC needs of the elderly in the frame of the latest Anderson model, which added psychosocial factors to predisposing characteristics, enabling factors, and need factors to the old version
Summary
The aged tendency of population is becoming a major challenge for many countries including China. According to CHFPY (China health and family planning yearbook, 2017), people aged 65 or above was about 88 million (close to 7% of the total population) in 2000. In 2016, those people raised to 150.03 million, which is over 10.8% of the total population. The rapid growth of population aging makes providing adequate long-term care services for the elderly has becoming a serious social dilemma. For predicting the needs and costs of LTC (long-term care) services for the elderly, it is necessary to carry out a theoretical discussion on the LTC needs of the elderly and find out their influencing factors [1]. Current Situation of Long-Term Care in China
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