The Study On The Elderly's Intention Of Receiving Institutional Care

China has comprehensively entered into an aging society with a rising elderly population.As the size of most of the Chinese families tends to be small,nuclear families have fewer resources and abilities to take care of the elderly and our government faces heavier burden in providing for the elderly population.In an attempt to solve this problem,the government plans to establish a social endowment service system that includes home,community and nursing institution.Nursing institutions for the elderly play an important role in alleviating the pension burden;however,China's institutional caring system for the elderly is late-started with an unscientific growth.Therefore,the study of institutional care for the elderly in China has obvious practical significance.In this paper,based on the comprehensive study of the elderly community by Chinese General Social Survey,using software STATA and Logit regression models,the author analyzed the factors that influence the elderly's intention of entering nursing institutions and facilities.Three variables are selected in this paper,including personal characteristics,home resource and community support.Especially,community caring service for the elderly is the innovative point of this article.The research found a very small portion of the Chinese elderly choose to receive institutional care.In addition,the female are more willing to live in the nursing home than male.Besides,older,higher-income and higher educated groups are more likely to accept institutional care.Because of the difference in pension plans that each individual has,the intention of entering caring institutions varies among different groups.Those who receive better benefits from their pension plans,such as urban workers and residents,show more willingness to move into caring facilities.Those who do not have a pension plan or a well-paid one,such as rural residents,choose not to go to those nursing facilities.The willingness of the elderly who reside in the countryside have new rural social pension to receive professional nursing care is four times weaker than urban working group who enjoy a sufficiently paid pension plan.As well,the more family income the elderly have,the stronger intention they show for institutional care system.Compared with those who live alone,the elderly living with others in a community are less likely to move into nursing home.The elderly living in communities that do no have services such as professional nursing and physician counselling services also show a stronger intention to move into caring institutions.This means community-based services for the elderly could make up for the current shortage of the supply of caring homes for the elderly;however,those community-based services also exist many problems.In general,family,community and professional caring institutions for the elderly are interrelated with each other and complement each other in providing necessary and much needed services to the Chinese elderly.