The Impact Of Children's Support On The Choice Of Care For The Disabled Elderly

The social characteristics of the elderly in China's aging,aging,and disabling are becoming more apparent.Under the aging society,all aspects of China have been challenged.The problem of old-age care for the elderly,especially the care of disabled elderly people,has also received more and more attention.Family pension resources are an important determinant of the choice of care methods for the disabled elderly.The supply from children is one of the main sources of disability old age pension resources.Therefore,it is of great significance to study the influence of children's support on the choice of care for the disabled elderly.In this paper,the data of China's Old Age Health Influencing Factors Tracking Survey(CLHLS)2014 was used.Using the binary Logit regression model,children's economic support,emotional support,and care support were used as key independent variables,and the age group and gender of disabled seniors were added.,urban and rural conditions,education level,disability level,son's living distance,daughter's living distance,family living standards,whether to participate in endowment insurance,whether the community provides residential care,whether the community provides medical treatment for the door,whether the community provides spiritual comfort chat A series of control variables such as nausea and nausea are used to analyze the influence of the choice of care for the disabled elderly.The multivariate Logit model was used to further analyze the influence of children's support on the choice of informal care for the disabled.And in the case of whether the disabled old man has a spouse and different disability levels,the differences in the influence of the support of the children on the choice of the elderly care and the reasons for this difference are studied.This study shows that in the dual logit regression analysis,children's economic support has a significant negative impact on the choice of informal care for the disabled elderly.Child care support and emotional support have a significant positive impact on the choice of informal care for the disabled elderly.Among the control variables,gender,place of residence,education level,degree of disability,whether the community has daily care services,whether the community has a visit to the hospital,whether the community has a mental comfort or a chat,and the suffocation of the disability Land influence.Using the multivariate Logit model to study the impact of child support on informal care choices,it was found that children's emotional support and financial support had a significant positive impact on their choice of child care compared to the self-care of disabled seniors;The self-care style of the elderly,the emotional support and financial support of the children have a significant negative impact on their choice of spouse care.For the elderly population with different levels of disability,the three key independent variables have the same positive and negative impact on the choice of informal care for the disabled elderly.As the degree of disability increases,the impact of care support on the choice of informal care for the disabled elderly is increased.Based on the above conclusions and some problems in the empirical analysis,this paper proposes the following policy recommendations:(1)giving priority to the disabled“nature resources” and improving the government's purchase of care service system;(2)according to different disability levels Provide differentiated care services;(3)increase incentives for informal caregivers and strengthen the basic role of family care;(4)strengthen the supply of community care services and improve community pension infrastructure.