Why China needs an active social policy on ageing

Zhu, Huoyun; Walker, Alan

doi:10.1080/17441730.2021.1955444

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“…Older people (e.g., those aged over 65 years old) often have an increased need for care services because of their higher frequency of healthcare problems. Most welfare states support formal care services or provide public funding for both homecare and residential care ( 1 ). The welfare state's co-funding of such formal care costs usually differs depending on recipients' care needs and the form of care provision in question ( 2 ).…”

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“…Therefore, most care-dependent older people still rely on informal care ( 33 ). However, family members' abilities to provide care is declining, as it is becoming more difficult for such caregivers (who are usually women) to reconcile their multiple care responsibilities with their work obligations ( 1 , 3 ). Consequently, the Chinese government is restructuring its LTC system and extending formal care services to address older peoples' rising demand for care and the increasing pressure on families to provide such care; however, it mainly targets older people with limitations to their activities of daily living ( 34 ).…”

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Continuous voluntary community care services for older people in China: Evidence from Wuhu

Xin

Jian-zeng

2023

Front. Public Health

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IntroductionChina has limited formal care services and weak unpaid informal care support for older people, which has caused a care service shortage for them. Voluntary community care services are thus a type of formal care service that aims to meet older people's unmet care needs. However, the continuity of such voluntary community care services is important for the degree to which these unmet care needs of older people can be satisfied. Therefore, this study examines what motivates volunteers to provide voluntary community care services for older people in China. It argues that providing continuous voluntary community care services can be motivated by the interaction of volunteers' internal and external motivations.MethodsThis study employs the grounded theory approach, including open coding, axial coding, selective coding, and saturation testing, and derives the data from 15 semi-structured interviews with volunteers from September to December 2021 in Wuhu, China.ResultsThe analysis identifies three internal motivations (altruism, social interaction, and self-fulfillment) and three external motivations (social support, standardized management, and relevant benefits) as well as the interaction between them as factors that impact volunteers' willingness to offer continuous voluntary community care services for older people.DiscussionThe study's findings highlight the impact of continuous volunteering on society, which is significant to provide voluntary community care services for older people. It thus contributes to the development of China's care policy and future care supply services as well as serves as a reference for care development models in other welfare states, particularly in places where both formal and informal care are underdeveloped such as China.

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Continuous voluntary community care services for older people in China: Evidence from Wuhu

Xin

Jian-zeng

2023

Front. Public Health

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“…This may include policy interventions, for example, the Chinese government’s ‘Health China 2030’ plan that was issued in 2016. The plan seeks to promote people’s health over a ten-year period through various channels such as providing activity recommendations on television programs, providing free health consultation in community health care centres, and promoting health awareness and education [ 33 ]. These efforts may have helped, directly or indirectly, generate greater participation in some social activities.…”

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Time trend analysis of leisure-time activity participation among young-old adults in China 2002–2018

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Background To examine the time trends of leisure activity engagement among young-old adults aged 65–74 in China over a 16-year period. Methods Data for a nationally representative sample of young-old adults was sourced from the 2002–2018 Chinese Longitudinal Healthy Longevity Survey (N = 9504). Generalized estimating equations regressions were implemented to assess temporal trends for 10 different leisure-time activities. We also evaluated time trends for solitary versus social leisure-time activities. Results Young-old adults were less likely to engage in any form of social activities (e.g. participate in social events) over time, controlling for other confounders such as age, sex, education, income, and health characteristics. Trends in outdoor activities participation and tourism also declined over 2002-2014, but reversed in 2018. In contrast, solitary leisure activities (e.g. watching TV) became more popular. There was a significant spike in the likelihood of keeping pets from 2011 onwards, especially among urbanites. Conclusions The future elderly in China have tended towards home-bound and solitary leisure activities over time, which warrants policy attention and public health interventions to reverse such trends.

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“…The rapid population aging is considered one of the most prominent social and economic challenges facing China (Zhu & Walker, 2022). Therefore, the population of this study consists of elderly individuals residing in commercial elderly care homes in China.…”

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“…The report indicates that, by 2050, at least one out of every four will be aged 65 years or over in regions including Europe and Northern America, and Eastern and South-Eastern Asia. It has become clear that aging is a significant societal challenge fueling a growing debate in the public arena as well as in academia (Ten Bruggencate et al, 2018;Zhu & Walker, 2022), and it is not a contingency that the United Nations Decade of Healthy Ageing (2021) has been announced recently. As in other disciplines, including sociology and psychology, a growing volume of tourism and hospitality research has endeavored to tackle the issue of aging from different perspectives including positive psychology and the transformative research paradigm (Chaulagain et al, 2022;Sedgley et al, 2011;Wen et al, 2022).…”

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Social connectedness and well-being of elderly customers: Do employee-to-customer interactions matter?

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Alrawadıeh

2022

Journal of Hospitality Marketing & Management

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Why China needs an active social policy on ageing

Cited by 12 publications

References 14 publications

Continuous voluntary community care services for older people in China: Evidence from Wuhu

Continuous voluntary community care services for older people in China: Evidence from Wuhu

Time trend analysis of leisure-time activity participation among young-old adults in China 2002–2018

Social connectedness and well-being of elderly customers: Do employee-to-customer interactions matter?

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