The Influencing Study On Transitions In Living Arrangements Among Elderly Due To Changes Of Family Economic Status

At the moment,the situation of aging in our country is grim,and providing for the aged becomes an important issue faced by the entire society.In addition,as a result of the rapid economic development accompanied by population migration and housing improvements,the family structure of our country has undergone tremendous changes.These series of changes have a profound impact on the living arrangements of the elderly.Therefore,it could provide the appropriate reference value for the current pension patterns and medical services by studying living arrangements for the elderly.Furthermore,it could provide the foundation for appropriate family policy and pension policy with further exploration on the transition of old people's living arrangements.With the economic development in our country,economic factors are very important in all fields.The change of family economic status has also become one of the challenges faced by Chinese family endowment insurance system.Family pension,which is supported by the economic authority of the parents,gradually collapses with the transformation of the family modernization.The power of the parents to decide whether or not to live with their children is weakened.As a result,the living arrangements of the elderly no longer depend only on themselves but on the results of two generations' mutual agreement and economic situations.The dynamic research on the changes of the family economic status of the elderly can better reflect its impact on the transition of housing arrangements.This article divides the arrangements for the elderly living into two situations:with their children and not with their children,from which four conditions are generated:"live with children forever","live with children in earlier period but live separately in later period","never live with children","live with children in later period but live separately in earlier period",and according to the needs of the study,the conditions mentioned above are divided into three groups of interpreted variables.This article takes the change of the economic status of the elderly as the explanatory variable,and selects "the change of the house owner" and"the change of the family economic decision maker" as the measuring dimension.In addition,some background factors are selected such as age and gender,and emergency variables such as the change in marital status and the change between having children or not.Descriptive analysis was used to describe the general situation of the data.Besides,binary Logistic regression analysis is used for all samples on the living transition influenced by the changes of the elderly's family economic status.Furthermore,the study carries out sub-sample regression on urban and rural elderly to further analyze the urban-rural differences in the transformation of living arrangements for the elderly.The results show that the change of the family economic status of the elderly does affect the conversion of their living arrangements.As the family economic status of the elderly is lower or decreasing gradually,the likelihood of living with their children will increase.As the family economic status of the elderly is higher or increasing gradually,the possibility of not living with their children will increase.The effects of control variables on the conversion of living arrangements for the elderly are different.In the regression analysis which sees living together or living separately as reference group,it has profound influences on the living arrangements,from living separately to living together for the elderly in terms of age,residence preferences,the change of marital status,the change between having sons or having no sons,the change of daily living ability and the changes of the limitation of daily living.In the regression analysis which sees living together forever as reference group,it has influences on keeping living together in terms of the change of residence preference and the change between having sons or not having sons.In the regression analysis which sees living separately forever as reference group,it has profound influences on the living arrangement,from living together to living separately,in terms of age,education,the change of residence preference,the change of marital status and the change of daily living ability.The transformation of housing arrangements for the elderly in urban and rural areas shows commonalities in the changes of family economic status and residential preferences.However,there are differences in terms of age,education level,the change in marital status,the change of the having or not having sons and the change in living restrictions.Combined with theoretical analysis and empirical results,this paper draws the conclusion that the conversion of living arrangements for the elderly has the following characteristics:economic status is the primary decision-making basis for the elderly;living preference is the result of living assessment of the elderly;raising children is the traditional concept of living for the elderly;The family is the last line of defense for the elderly.On the basis of combing the current pension policy,some suggestions were put forward on improving the income structure of the elderly,focusing on the elderly who are fawning,meeting the needs of the elderly with disabilities,and encouraging older people to remarry properly.