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The Study on the Satisfaction of the Elderly People Living with Their Children

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  • Qian Jin

    (Xi’an International Studies University)

  • Philip Pearce

    (James Cook University)

  • Hui Hu

    (Wuhan University
    Wuhan University)

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In today’s society, with the aging population, the satisfaction of the elderly people is highly connected with the social sustainability. This article used the data of the Chinese Health and the Pension Follow-up Survey from CHARLS in 2013 to analyze the relation between the elderly people’s satisfaction and their living arrangement. Based on the control of the influential factors on the individual, family and the regional level, this article used ordinary least square regression method to find out that the elderly people’s satisfaction will be deceased because of living with their children. However, the elderly people’s dissatisfaction will be vanished along with the growth of the age of the elderly. Therefore, the elderly people’s living arrangements have been changed, to maintain the satisfaction of the elderly in China, the appropriate health care and other activities should be redesigned and developed for the elderly who live by themselves.

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  • Qian Jin & Philip Pearce & Hui Hu, 2018. "The Study on the Satisfaction of the Elderly People Living with Their Children," Social Indicators Research: An International and Interdisciplinary Journal for Quality-of-Life Measurement, Springer, vol. 140(3), pages 1159-1172, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:soinre:v:140:y:2018:i:3:d:10.1007_s11205-017-1803-1
    DOI: 10.1007/s11205-017-1803-1
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