IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/oup/geronb/v79y2024i11p195-69..html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Factors Associated With Intended Utilization of Home-Based Long-Term Care Among Older Adults in China: The Moderating Effect of Community Support

Author

Listed:
  • Run-Ping Che
  • Mei-Chun Cheung

Abstract

ObjectivesGuided by Andersen’s behavioral model, the objectives of this study were to (a) examine the associations between individual factors and the intended utilization of home-based long-term care (LTC) services among older adults in China and (b) explore the influence of community support, if any, on these associations.MethodsUsing a multistage random sampling approach, we recruited 1,064 older adults in Chengdu, China. Hierarchical regression was employed to investigate the direct effects of individual predictors and community support on the intended use of home-based LTC services. The moderating effect of community support was examined using the Hayes Process.ResultsTwo predisposing (i.e., being old and unmarried), 4 enabling (i.e., living alone, having fewer children, and receiving less family and peer support), and 6 need factors (i.e., having more chronic illnesses; decreased performance in instrumental activities of daily living; higher levels of depression, anxiety, loneliness; and a lower self-image of aging), and low community support were significantly associated with increased intended utilization of home-based LTC. In addition, community support moderated the effects of family support (B = −0.20, p

Suggested Citation

  • Run-Ping Che & Mei-Chun Cheung, 2024. "Factors Associated With Intended Utilization of Home-Based Long-Term Care Among Older Adults in China: The Moderating Effect of Community Support," The Journals of Gerontology: Series B, The Gerontological Society of America, vol. 79(11), pages 195-169.
    • Handle: RePEc:oup:geronb:v:79:y:2024:i:11:p:195-69.
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1093/geronb/gbae146
    Download Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers.
    ---><---

    As the access to this document is restricted, you may want to search for a different version of it.

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:oup:geronb:v:79:y:2024:i:11:p:195-69.. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Oxford University Press (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://academic.oup.com/psychsocgerontology .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.