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Adult children and older people's demand for community care services in urban China.
- Source :
- Australasian Journal on Ageing; Jun2024, Vol. 43 Issue 2, p239-247, 9p
- Publication Year :
- 2024
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Abstract
- Objectives: This paper has two objectives. First, it assesses whether the existing informal care provided by adult children has an impact on older people's propensity to demand community care services. Second, it compares the different statuses of sons and daughters in the formal/informal support trade‐off. Methods: The paper is based on an analysis of data from the 2018 wave of the China Longitudinal Ageing Social Survey, within the framework of a revised version of Andersen's model, and applies multilevel models to analyse the effects of adult children's gender, numbers and the quality of their support, on older people's willingness to purchase community care services. Results: Older people who had sons as well as daughters demanded fewer services, while the number of sons increased service demand. Regarding sons, community care services compensated for economic support, daily life care and spiritual consolation, but did so only in respect of daily life care from daughters. Conclusions: Many families have only one son or one daughter as a result of the one‐child policy and therefore often require support from formal care services. Moreover, there is a distinct gender division and an influential filial culture governing the impact of services on the support provided by adult children. Because ageing in place depends on both informal family support and formal services, this key policy goal is at risk if the latter provides insufficient support to the former. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- COMMUNITY health services
INDEPENDENT living
RESEARCH funding
HEALTH policy
SEX distribution
QUESTIONNAIRES
AGE distribution
DESCRIPTIVE statistics
LONGITUDINAL method
MEDICAL needs assessment
MEDICAL care for older people
SOCIAL support
COMPARATIVE studies
URBAN health
PSYCHOLOGY of adult children
ACTIVE aging
INTERGENERATIONAL relations
MEDICAL care costs
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 14406381
- Volume :
- 43
- Issue :
- 2
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- Australasian Journal on Ageing
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 178132021
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1111/ajag.13242