Impact of Formal Care Use on Informal Care from Children after the Launch of Long-Term Care Insurance in Shanghai, China

Huimin Zhang, Xiaoyi Zhang, Youhua Zhao, Jianfeng Huang and Wenwei Liu
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Huimin Zhang: School of International and Public Affairs, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200030, China
Xiaoyi Zhang: School of International and Public Affairs, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200030, China
Youhua Zhao: School of Political Science and Public Administration, East China University of Political Science and Law, Shanghai 201620, China
Jianfeng Huang: School of International and Public Affairs, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200030, China
Wenwei Liu: College of Philosophy, Law and Political Science, Shanghai Normal University, Shanghai 200234, China

IJERPH, 2020, vol. 17, issue 8, 1-10

Abstract: The impact of formal care (co-paid by long term care (LTC) insurance) on informal care is critical to the improvement and promotion of public policy. We conducted an interview-based survey to examine how the use of formal care impacts the use of informal care in Shanghai, which was one of China’s first long-term insurance pilots in 2016. In addition to total informal care time, the following four types of informal care were considered: (1) household activities of daily living (HDL) tasks, (2) activities of daily living (ADL) tasks, (3) instrumental activities of daily living (IADL) tasks, and (4) supervision tasks. Of the 407 families, an average of 12.36 h (SD = 6.70) of informal care was crowded out each week. Among them, ADL tasks, HDL tasks, and supervision tasks were reduced an average of 4.60 (SD = 3.59), 5.50 (SD = 3.38), and 2.10 h (SD = 3.06) per week, respectively. Each additional hour of formal care reduced 0.473 h of informal care. Care recipients’ gender and health status were also determined to be associated with crowding out hours of informal care. These findings can be utilized as empirical evidence for decision-makers to consider the scope of funding for formal care, and this study provides comparable results to developing countries and regions.

Keywords: informal care; formal care; long-term care insurance; Shanghai; China (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I I1 I3 Q Q5 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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