Consumer Attitudes toward Community Elderly Services during Negative Population Growth and Sustainable Development

Meng Lin, Weidong Li, Yukun Cao and Liyan Shan ()
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Meng Lin: School of Economics and Business Administration, Heilongjiang University, Harbin 150080, China
Weidong Li: School of Economics and Business Administration, Heilongjiang University, Harbin 150080, China
Yukun Cao: College of Economics and Management, Northeast Forestry University, Harbin 150040, China
Liyan Shan: College of Economics and Management, Northeast Forestry University, Harbin 150040, China

Sustainability, 2023, vol. 15, issue 20, 1-21

Abstract: In 2022, it became apparent that China had officially become a nation witnessing negative population growth. Coinciding with the emergence of an aging society, the occurrence of population sustainable development has emerged as a crucial concern for society. In recent times, community-oriented elderly care has garnered prominence and materialized as a feasible pathway for confronting the matter of familial elderly care in a society with an aging populace. This study was conducted in three provincial capital cities in different regions of China. Based on the ABC theory and Maslow’s hierarchy of needs theory, and with reference to the research of relevant scholars, the study investigated consumers’ attitudes towards community elderly care services from the perspectives of health care services, housekeeping services, entertainment, catering services, etc., and put forward research hypotheses. The questionnaire was dimensionally reduced using factor analysis, and the hypotheses were tested using regression analysis. The findings validate that the delivery of medical provisions, domestic aid, recreational and culinary facilities, camaraderie, and counseling visits, along with bespoke services, substantially enhance consumer receptivity towards community-oriented elderly care provisions. As a result, these conclusions assume the role of valuable points of reference for entities engaged in furnishing such services.

Keywords: negative population growth; population sustainable development community-based elderly care; consumer attitudes (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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