Living Ability,Children's Characteristics And Living Arrangement Of Rural Elderly People

The living arrangement of the elderly is closely related to the quality of life of the elderly and the adjustment of the relevant policies of the government,while is a significant link in the pension system.According to the related documents of government and scholars' studies,China's pension model is diversified,and it still has some emphasis,at present.Although community care and institutional pension play a vital role for the elderly in supplement and auxiliary about pension,family care which most the elderly living with children still occupies the main position in pension.Rural population accounts for a high percentage of China's total population,the role of the elderly in rural areas should not be ignored.The living arrangement whether the elderly living in the rural areas a living with their children would have an impact on the living conditions and family status of the elderly in the rural areas.This article uses data from the Chinese elderly health and retirement tracking survey(CHARLS)in 2011 and 2013,controls the personal characteristics of the elderly in the countryside,focusing on the influence of activities of daily living and children characteristics on the living arrangement of rural elderly people,the robustness of the impact of the two types of appeals on the living arrangements of the elderly in rural areas was tested by controlling the living desire and peer effect variable of rural elderly people.The result show that:(1)There are many living arrangements for the elderly in rural areas.Most of the elderly in rural areas live with spouses,children or grandchildren.The number of the elderly who living alone or with their spouses in rural areas,has a marked increase,while there are still many rural elderly living with their children.(2)In rural areas,the better instrumental activity of daily living of the elderly to help themselves,the more likely they are not to live with their children.Activity of daily living dose not have significant influence on whether they live with their children or not.(3)The older the children are,the less elderly people in rural areas tend to live with their children;with the minimum of children years of schooling increasing,fewer possibilities for the elderly in rural areas to live with children,with the maximum of children years of schooling increasing,more possibilities for the elderly in rural areas to live with children;the more children are married,the more rural elderly tend to live with their children;the more boys in the children,the more inclined the elderly in rural areas do not live with their children,the traditional concept of "rear sons for help in old age" has been transformed in rural areas.