Research On The Influencing Factors Of Community Care In Rural Area Of Shaanxi In Perspective Of Social Network

With the arrival of an aging population, old-age care has gradually become the focus of the whole society. At present, our country’s rural family size is developing in the direction of the small and the core size gradually, resulting the weakening of the family care functions in gradual. On the other hand, the development of mechanism care function that provide for the rural elderly is not mature in our country, which promotes the community care becoming a new type of care model that is suitable for our country’s rural areas. In addition to the personal factors, family factors and community factors, the social network of the elderly is also the related factors that affect the rural elderly participation in the community care. A good social network of the rural elderly can not only reduce the rural old man’s dependence on the family and society, but also make it have a higher level of health and care for the elderly. Based on the above background, this paper begins with the research on the influencing factors of rural community care in Shaanxi in perspective of social network.The paper uses the related survey data from questionnaire of community care status of Shaanxi elderly in rural, analysising deeply the social network characteristics and community care situation of the rural elderly, and explores the effects of social network to the rural old man’s participation in the community care in using multivariate Logistic regression analysis.The study concludes the following points:(1) The social network scale of the rural elderly is larger, relationship joint strength is higher, the gender and age homogeneity is relatively high and heterogeneity is relatively low,the homogeneity and heterogeneity of education is general; the rural old man’s relationship type is rich, including children, spouse and neighbors being the rural old man’s main members of the social network, accounting for a larger proportion in the elderly relation types, so they knowing each other for a long time and having a higher intimacy degree.(2) The network scale and the frequency of relationship joint strength have a significant positive effect on community care will of the rural elderly, namely the larger network scale ofthe elderly and the more frequently network members of the elderly interact with each other,the stronger community care will of the rural elderly is; the network scale and the depth of relationship joint strength have a significant positive impact on life satisfaction of the rural elderly, namely the larger network scale of the elderly and the longer network members and the elderly know each other and the higher intimacy degree, the higher life satisfaction of the elderly is.(3) The old-age care demand factors and old-age care supply factors also have a significant impact on the rural old man’s community care will and life satisfaction. The study found that the rural elderly in high economic ability of self security are more likely to choose the community care, while the rural elderly with low self-protection capacity tend to choose the family care, at the same time the rural elderly choosing community care is also restricted by old-age care demand and supply factors.Based on the social network and community care theory the paper makes a empirical research, analysising the factors affecting the rural elderly old-age care status in depth from the perspective of social network, discussing the importance of the social network of the rural elderly to their participation in the community care, and constructs the framework of rural community old-age service system on the basis of it, and finally puts forward the relevant policy recommendations on the development and constructions of rural community care in the future.