Older People’s Choice of the Community-based Care: A Welfare Pluralism Perspective

Hiu Ying Cheung (), Yu Qi Fu () and Zan Yang ()
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Hiu Ying Cheung: Tsinghua University, Postal: Tsinghua Hang Lung Center for Real Estate Studies, Institute of Real Estate Studies, Department of Construction Management, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
Yu Qi Fu: Tsinghua University, Postal: Tsinghua Hang Lung Center for Real Estate Studies, Institute of Real Estate Studies, Department of Construction Management, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
Zan Yang: Department of Real Estate and Construction Management, Royal Institute of Technology, Postal: Teknikringen 10B, 100 44 Stockholm, Sweden

No 23/7, Working Paper Series from Royal Institute of Technology, Department of Real Estate and Construction Management & Banking and Finance

Abstract: The complex interactions among multiple service providers pose challenges to the delivery of community-based care for older people. Through the lens of the welfare pluralism theory, this study provides the first understanding of older people’s decisions regarding within-family /community-based care under complex interactions among the government, enterprises, communities, and families. Based on a survey of older people in 2,883 corresponding families and 184 communities in China, we utilize a logit regression to empirically examine the factors that influence older people’s care decisions, as identified by an equilibrium model. We find that the government subsidy and local wage level effectively promote older people’s decisions to community-based care. We highlight the importance of governments’ direct care provisions in promoting aging in place and efforts to mitigate regional inequalities.

Keywords: aging in place; community-based care; welfare pluralism theory (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: H53 I31 J14 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 19 pages
Date: 2023-06-14
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