2016 Volume 19 Issue 2 Pages 42-50
The purpose of this study is to examine factors related to demands of long-term care of the Chinese elderly living in Xuzhou city, a regional hub city. We specially include two indicators which are not focused as candidates of related factors in previous studies; consciousness of family norms and long term care and the characteristics of children. Face-to-face interviews were conducted with 206 residents aged 60 and over, living in Jiangsu, Xuzhou city. We measured demands of long-term care by using four categories; “only use of family caregiving”, “use of both family caregiving and community services”, “only use of community services”, and “nursing-home admission”. Candidates of related factors without the two factors described above included demographics, health, and social factors (socioeconomic status and family structure). We used “only use of family caregiving” as the reference category and conducted a multinomial logisticregression. Longer years of education or having a larger number of children were likely to have higher demands for “only use of community services”. Living alone or longer distance from a child living at the nearest location was related with demands of “nursing home admission”. With regard to the effects of consciousness of family norms and long term care, the elderly with higher traditional family norms or higher interpersonal anxiety were likely to have lower demands for “only use of the community services” and “nursing home admission”. Higher negative feeling for the long-term care system was likely to have lower demands for “use of both family caregiving and community services”.
