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

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  • Cheung, Hiu Ying

    (Tsinghua University)

  • Fu, Yu Qi

    (Tsinghua University)

  • Yang, Zan

    (Department of Real Estate and Construction Management, Royal Institute of Technology)

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.

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  • Cheung, Hiu Ying & Fu, Yu Qi & Yang, Zan, 2023. "Older People’s Choice of the Community-based Care: A Welfare Pluralism Perspective," Working Paper Series 23/7, Royal Institute of Technology, Department of Real Estate and Construction Management & Banking and Finance.
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    Keywords

    aging in place; community-based care; welfare pluralism theory;
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    JEL classification:

    • H53 - Public Economics - - National Government Expenditures and Related Policies - - - Government Expenditures and Welfare Programs
    • I31 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Welfare, Well-Being, and Poverty - - - General Welfare, Well-Being
    • J14 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - Economics of the Elderly; Economics of the Handicapped; Non-Labor Market Discrimination

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