Disabled Elders' Out-of-Pocket Home Care Expenses: Examining Financial Burden

Questions regarding the extent to which home care expenses are financially burdensome for disabled elders and who is most at risk of financial burden were examined using data from the 1989 National Long-Term Care Survey. Three of the four definitions of financial burden (expenditures relative to ability to pay) suggest that fewer than 11.2 percent of home care users have burdensome costs. Potential public and/or private options for protecting consumers at risk of burdensome home care costs are discussed. Discussion of how to understand home care financial burden focuses on current expectations and policy issues regarding the use of household income, assets, and home equity to pay for long-term care.     

农村失能老人上门照护服务困境及其纾解路径

在农村地区,传统的家庭养老方式受到不断弱化,在此背景下,上门照护服务应运而生.而失能老人在老年群体中是极为弱势的,因而更加需要关注.农村失能老人的养老服务与家庭养老的弱化、家人难以悉心照料与失能老人需求呈现多样化的大背景紧密相关.然而,农村失能老人上门照护服务面临着诸多困境,一是仅仅依靠政府难以满足农村失能老人上门照护...     

我国失能老人机构养老意愿分析——基于新福利经济学视角

在对相关理论文献梳理和实地调研的基础上,从新福利经济学的角度分析失能老人的机构养老意愿,并运用二元Logistic回归方法探讨个人、家庭和社会因素对其选择机构养老意愿的影响.失能老人在选择机构照护服务时更多的是从个体能够获得的最大福利出发,但由于受到主客观因素的影响,并不是所有的失能老人都能自由选择合适的养老方式,以增进个人福利,这必然导致养老福利的不公平性,影响养老服务的质量.提出重视并优化失能老人的养老方式,保障基本养老福利的均等化等建议.     

Food Away from Home Expenditures in the United States

This study investigates the factors affecting food away from home expenditures in the United States using county level data. Results generally indicate that counties with higher labor force participation rate of women, higher number of college graduates, higher number of employed individuals, higher number of females, and higher number of whites and AsianslPacific Islanders as well as counties with lower number of hispanics and lower number of family households spend more on food away from home than others.     

Allocation of Labor to Informal Home Health Production: Health Care for Frail Elderly,if Time Permits

This paper examines the impact of family caregiving on the allocation of time among labor market, caregiving, and leisure activities. A reduced form regression model is the framework for analysis of these simultaneous decisions. The analysis indicates that the number of caregivers and type of responsibilities assumed are significantly related to the caregiving time allocation decision. Alternatively, leisure and employment decisions are predominantly determined by the financial status of the caregiver and health status of both the caregiver and the impaired elderly relative.     

Giving Incentives of Adult Children Who Care for Disabled Parents

Do altruism and bequest incentives motivate adult children to care for disabled parents? Using an economic framework, this study examines these caregiving incentives. Data from the 1992 Health and Retirement Study indicate that motives to increase bequests from parents and parents’ disabilities influence adult children's decisions about not working and giving time or money to disabled parents.     

Cohort Effects of Household Expenditures on Food Away from Home

Data from 23 years of the U.S. Consumer Expenditure Survey (1982–2004) are analyzed to investigate cohort effects on food away-from-home (FAFH) expenditures using the age, period, and cohort (APC) model. Nine 10-year interval cohorts are included, from the Interbellum Generation born between 1896 and 1905 to the MTV Generation born between 1976 and 1985. Analyses reveal that later-born cohorts spend more on FAFH, both in dollar amount and in food budget share, compared with earlier-born cohorts. Significant cohort differences in FAFH remain after additional sociodemographic and economic variables are controlled.     

Consumer Unit Types and Expenditures on Food Away from Home

This paper explores the relationship between consumer unit type and expenditures on food away from home using microdata from the 1989 Consumer Expenditure Survey. A log-linear model is used to purge the effects of income and race/ethnicity from the consumer unit type/food-away-from-home expenditure relationship. The income-and race/ethnicity-controlled propensities to purchase food away from home among eight consumer unit types are revealed in simple percentage form. These adjusted percentages are discussed in regard to current and future business strategy designed to address industrywide declines in expenditures on food away from home. The results offer support for some existing strategies as well as provide the basis for viable alternatives. Log-linear purging is shown to be a valuable tool for consumer researchers.     

Home Production Market Production and the Changing Allocation of Consumption Expenditures on Service

This article studies the determinants of the quantity of services purchased by consumers in the US over the period 1949–85. Price and income elasticities useful for assessing the likely future demand for services are derived. The theoretical model and empirical estimates differ from traditional approaches by considering, as parameters in the demand function, changes in male and female labour force participation rates and hours worked. One interesting implication of this model is that it permits estimating the shifr of home production of services into market production and therefore an empirical assessment of the degree to which national income growth has been overestimated in the post- war years.     

舟山市信息化居家养老服务研究

互联网+正在成为各个行业的创新之源,在养老领域也同样如此。随着当前信息网络技术的快速发展,养老产业也正在步入智慧养老的新时代,未来必将空间无限。本文通过对互联网+在舟山养老领域应用的探讨,解决趋势、模式等问题。     

澳大利亚居家服务体系研究

从政府职责、服务供给和服务使用三方面阐述澳大利亚居家服务体系,分析该体系目前面临的问题,及其对我国的启示.     

老年人保健食品及医疗器械免费体验的相关问题

随着经济的增长与现代人消费观念和消费模式的改变,近年来,专门针对老年人的保健食品和医疗器械体验店开满大街小巷,其中一些免费体验店存在诸多安全隐患。因此,本文从食品药品监管角度出发,详细阐述存在的问题。     

英国居家照料服务及其对我国的启示

从政府职责、服务供给和服务使用等三方面阐述英国的居家照料服务,以及我国可从中得到的启示.     

对未来中国养老照护需求的估计

应对人口老龄化国家战略将中期目标定位在2035年、长期目标定位在2050年,从现在开始到2050年只有30年的时间。应对人口老龄化中长期规划的落脚点应该放到老年人身上,目标是解决好老年人的养老问题,并围绕这一目标制定相应的体制和机制,构建养老服务体系,并制定规划。然而,制定规划的起点应该是了解和掌握现在到未来的养老需求。对未来中国人口和老年人口的规模和结构进行估计,在此基础上对未来需要照护的老年人规摸和结构进行估计,结合需要照护老年人的收入情况,估计了不同收入水平下需要照护老年人未来的变化情况,并对不同收入水平下需要照护老年人的特点和获得照护服务的方式进行了分析。     

援疆失能老年人居家长期照护选择原因分析

基于对新疆728名援疆汉族失能老年人的调查数据,应用Multinomial Logistics回归方法分析失能 老年人选择居家长期照护的原因及影响因素.多数失能老年人受“恋家情结”的影响而选择在家中接受照护,其中性别、年龄、文化程度、来疆时间、来疆原因、失能时问及失能程度对失能老年人选择居家长期照护有显著的影响.     

The Economic Burden of Health Care,Funeral, and Burial Expenditures at the End of Life

Research suggests that widows and wodowers experience substantial economic vulnerability. Using nationally representative data from the Consumer Expenditure Surveys 1980–2000, we describe pre‐widowhood shifts in medical and funeral/burial expenditures and discuss how these changes may affect post‐widowhood economic well‐being. Our analyses suggest that funeral/burial and medical expenditures, when combined, typically constitute a 63.1% income share for recently widowed households. Discussion focuses on what role consumer educators can play in helping families better manage end‐of‐life expenditures.     

提供孙子女照料对农村老年人心理健康的影响研究

利用西安交通大学人口与发展研究所相关跟踪调查数据,研究提供孙子女照料对农村老年人心理健康的影响.提供孙子女照料给老年人带来更好的心理健康后果,帮助的提供者和接受者的性别时后果及影响机制起着重要作用.儿子提供的孙子女照料会使老年人的心理健康状况更好,传统上的"儿子偏好"时中国农村老年人的心理健康很重要.女儿提供的孙子女照料只对男性老人的心理健康有利,对女性老人则没有影响.     

日常护理需求的事件数模型

以日常护理需求为实例 ,探讨了应用事件数回归模型所应当注意的事项 ,着重考察 :(1)当事件数变量存在大量 0值时 ,如何在建模时加以处理 ;(2 )如何处理零堆积泊松回归模型中的右屏蔽效应 ;(3)并比较不同统计模型对相同变量的边际效应的影响。最后简单地讨论了零堆积负二项回归模型对我们理解老年人日常护理需求模型的涵义。     

日常护理需求的事件数模型

以日常护理需求为实例,探讨了应用事件数回归模型所应当注意的事项,着重考察:(1)当事件数变量存在大量0值时,如何在建模时加以处理;(2)如何处理零堆积泊松回归模型中的右屏蔽效应;(3)并比较不同统计模型对相同变量的边际效应的影响.最后简单地讨论了零堆积负二项回归模型对我们理解老年人日常护理需求模型的涵义.