The Impact Of Two-way Intergenerational Support On The Health Of The Elderly ——Empirical Research Based On CLHLS Data

The problem of aging has become an issue of great concern all over the world,and the degree of aging in my country is also relatively high.The health level of the elderly population in my country is directly related to the social investment in old-age care,as well as to the prosperity of the country and the stable development of social order.General Secretary Xi Jinping once emphasized that we should attach great importance to the research on population aging,accurately analyze the risks and opportunities of population aging,and build a systematic solution strategy.Intergenerational support is an important factor affecting the health of the elderly.This paper takes the two-way intergenerational support as the starting point to explore the basic impact and heterogeneity of the two-way intergenerational support on the health of the elderly.Promoting innovation in the field of intergenerational support research methods will help increase people’s attention to the health status of the elderly,promote the role of two-way intergenerational support within the family,and be conducive to the accuracy of aging health policies and family pension policies.The design makes the elderly care service more warm and high-quality.By combing and reviewing relevant literature at home and abroad,this paper defines the concepts of intergenerational support and the health of the elderly,and takes social exchange theory and Maslow’s hierarchy of needs theory as the theoretical basis of this paper.The influencing factors of aging health are divided into three aspects: personal characteristics,socioeconomic characteristics,and lifestyle characteristics of the elderly.Intergenerational support mainly includes three dimensions: financial support,life care support and emotional support.The data in this article were selected from the 2018 China Elderly Health Influencing Factors Tracking Survey（CLHLS）.In this paper,the frailty index is used to comprehensively reflect the health status of the elderly.Firstly,the present situation analysis was carried out on the personal characteristics,socioeconomic characteristics,lifestyle characteristics,two-way intergenerational support and health status of the elderly.On this basis,this paper uses a multiple linear regression model to analyze the basic effect of two-way intergenerational support on the frailty index;due to the strong heterogeneity of the health status of the elderly,this paper establishes three age groups（65-74,75-84,85+）two-way intergenerational support regression model and quantile regression model explore the heterogeneity of the impact of different dimensions of two-way intergenerational support on aging health;this paper conducts robustness test through propensity score matching.The research results show that two-way intergenerational support has a significant effect on improving the health of the elderly.Two-way economic support and two-way life care support can effectively improve the health status of the elderly and improve the life happiness of the elderly.For the unhealthy elderly,two-way life The more effective the role of support.The two-way emotional support has a negative impact on the health of the elderly,and the greatest impact is on the elderly group in the middle of the health level.There are significant differences in ageing health in terms of gender,age,urban and rural areas,marital status,education level,endowment insurance,and lifestyle.The health status of female elderly is generally worse than that of male,and this phenomenon is more obvious in the elderly.The frailty index of the elderly increases significantly with age,and the rate of increase also increases gradually,that is,the older the elderly,the worse their physical health,and the increase in age is more detrimental to the health of the elderly.The health status of the rural elderly is better than that of the urban elderly.Older people with spouses and higher education levels tend to have healthier bodies.The health status of the elderly with endowment insurance is worse than that of the elderly without endowment insurance.Urban workers or residents’ medical insurance and the new rural cooperative medical system have well maintained the health of the elderly.Older people who don’t smoke,don’t drink alcohol,and exercise regularly have better health.In the end,this paper gives countermeasures and suggestions for improving intergenerational support and family support: adhere to the main body of family support,build a family support system,develop and improve the frailty index measurement,increase government security,and improve the social support network for the elderly.