Font Size: a A A

Empty Nest Elderly Life Care Demand Conditions Research In Shanghai

Posted on:2012-11-29Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:D W WangFull Text:PDF
GTID:2166330335464992Subject:Demography
Abstract/Summary:PDF Full Text Request
Facing the population aging, the more-extended aging, household size miniaturization, housing conditions improvement and singleton female parents entering aging, empty nest elderly families will become more and more. Along with the weakening family care function, empty nest elderly life care questions will increase day by day. According to the sampling survey data of the investigation on current status and the will of the aged in Shanghai 2003 and the Shanghai frail elderly care situation demand survey case interviews in 2010, this paper focuses on the old people in Shanghai care needs and attended the choice status care places using the method of empirical analysis and case analysis.By analysising the elderly in empty nest and none-empty nest, carrying on the comparison of basic condition, this paper tries to understand empty nest elderly basic sociodemographic, economic status self-care ability condition, health and mental condition; By analysising the empty nest elderly group life care needs, this paper tries to understand the elderly nest attended the basic condition.By the method of the Logistic regression analysis and case interviews analysis, this paper tries to make it clear of the old people care needs and attended the influence factors of care places choice.There are several main conclusions from this research:A. Age and account have a significant effcet on empty nest elderly life care nature.Along with the growth of the age, the physiological function of the old declines, and self-care ability reduces, this will bring empty nest weakening the old people care problem; Economic and social development, the one-child policy, housing conditions improvement and old life concepts, and so on, all of this will effect that urban empty elderly families will become more and more, thus bringing great pressure to older elderly life care attended.B. The health condition have a significant impact on the empty nest elderly life demand. Cognitive capacity situation, body unwell symptom, chronic diseases and health self-evaluation are the factors that directly lead to the fact that empty nest elderly self-care ability increasingly fell, with the elderly dependening on others more and more often; And because of living in the empty nest and children not nearby, old people once fall down or have a sick illness or some other accidents, it will bring a lot of inconvenience.C. age, account properties, body unwell symptom, suffering from chronic disease and physical self-perceived health have significant influences on empty nest elderly's selection home as care places; Age, account properties, income level, economic status, physical discomfort, suffering from chronic disease number and body self-assessment status have significant influences on empty nest old people's choosing endowment institutions as care places. Among these factors, the effect of account properties on empty nest elderly care nature of choice differs, while empty nest old people in city will choose social endowment institutions as life care, those in rural will choose home.This is mainly because there are more endowment resources for empty nest old people in city to choose and the cities have certain economic conditions (social endowment institutions), but in rural empty nest old people should face rural traditional endowment customs and endowment resource constraintsD. The number of existing children, the distant with children and economic conditions restrict the elderly attended care. Empirical analysis process in this paper does not test this hypothesis, but through the case interviews to empty nest elderly life care situation, it is proved.Finally, on the basis of collecting and analysising the research conclusion, this paper proposes several policy recommendations:individual and family members should give full play to to take care of the old people; Optimize the layout of social endowment institutions, develop community endowment institutions; Provide diverse door-to-door service projects for families with empty nest elderly people; Promote the great-leap-forward development of attending the empty nest elderly in rural; Learn the experience form the developed countries of their empty nest elderly care service.
Keywords/Search Tags:Empty nest elderly, Life care demand, Aged tendency of population Shanghai
PDF Full Text Request
Related items