Access to Neighbourhood Services and Subjective Poverty in Hong Kong

Peng, Chenhong; Yip, Paul S. F.

doi:10.1007/s11482-022-10125-0

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“…There was a link between community services and subjective poverty in older adults, possibly due to the provision of services such as personal care, psychological counseling, and home visits. These services, similar to neighborhood services, can give older individuals a feeling of care and support from their community, which can compensate for the inadequacy of individual or household resources and decrease the likelihood of experiencing subjective poverty ( 18 ).…”

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“…Available studies have shown that older adults’ poverty is related to individual-level, community-level, and policy-level factors such as age ( 10 ), gender ( 11 ), education ( 12 , 13 ), marital status ( 14 , 15 ), occupation ( 16 ), and place of residence ( 17 ). Furthermore, neighborhood service and community service are factors affecting poverty ( 18 ). Also, deficiency of government support and social security ( 19 ) are found to be closely related to poverty.…”

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Assessing the effect of health status on multidimensional poverty among older adults: the Chinese longitudinal healthy longevity survey

Zhou

Zhu

Walsh

et al. 2023

Front. Public Health

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BackgroundThis study aimed to explore the association between health status (physical, mental, and self-rated health) and multidimensional poverty (subjective and objective poverty) in older adults.MethodA panel binary logit regression approach was applied to four waves of CLHLS data (2008, 2011, 2014, and 2018). In total,1,445 individuals were included after data cleaning.ResultsThe mean values and proportion of physical, mental, and self-rated health were 5.73 (87.42%), 0.93 (93.06%), and 3.46 (86.7%), respectively, and mean values and proportion of subjective and objective poverty were 0.19 (18.51%) and 0.21(21.4%). In addition, physical, mental, and self-rated health were all found to be associated with subjective poverty among older adults (r = −0.181, r = −0.630, r = −0.321, p < 0.05), that is, the better the physical, mental, and self-rated health, the lower the probability of subjective poverty. A comparable connection between self-rated health and objective poverty also exists (r = −0.157, p < 0.05). Furthermore, medical expenditure played a mediation role in the association between the health status and poverty of older adults.ConclusionIn order to effectively alleviate the poverty of older adults, strategies should be taken to improve the health level of older adults, especially the physical and mental health of high-aged older adults, and the self-rated health of middle-aged older adults. Furthermore, social security and pensions should be further developed to adequately reimburse medical expenditures.

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