Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Ren, Qing-Man
• Ren, Xiao-Hui

Titel

Effect of Intergenerational Support from Children on Older Adults' Healthcare Seeking Behaviors

Ist Teil von

• Sichuan da xue xue bao. Journal of Sichuan University. Yi xue ban, 2023-05, Vol.54 (3), p.614-619

Ort / Verlag

China

Erscheinungsjahr

2023

Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• To investigate the impact of intergenerational support from children on older adults' healthcare seeking behaviors and to provide suggestions to help promote sensible healthcare seeking behaviors in older adults. Based on the data from the 2016 baseline data and the 2018 national tracking survey of China Family Panel Studies (CFPS), a total of 5690 respondents aged 60 years and older with surviving children were selected for the study. Logistic regression was used to analyze the effect of children's intergenerational support on older adults' healthcare seeking behavior. The probability of seeing a doctor in the last two weeks was relatively higher among older adults whose children provided financial support (odds ratio [ ]=1.129, 95% confidence interval [ ]: 1.004-1.271, <0.05), but the effect of whether children provided financial support on one-year hospitalization was not significant ( >0.05). Daily care support from children contributed positively to both seeing a doctor in the last two weeks and one-year