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Recent development in Chinese elder homes: a reconciliation of traditional culture
- Authors:
- LIU Guangya, ZHAN Heying J., HONG-GUANG Bai
- Journal article citation:
- Ageing International, 30(2), 2005, pp.167-187.
- Publisher:
- Springer
- Place of publication:
- New York
This paper examines recent developments in elder care homes and changing attitudes toward institutional care in the Tianjin area of China. Based on research conducted at 12 sites, this study compares two types of elder care homes which are competing in the growing Chinese market for institutional elder care: ones characterized as government-owned and others described as "non-government-owned." Findings suggest that, despite rapid growth in the elder care home industry in China, the market is tilted toward the former government-owned elder care homes that still enjoy institutional and bureaucratic advantages in funding, staffing, and insurance. The research also examines the changing connotations of cultural norm in parent care. Traditional attitudes against placing parents in elder care homes are changing; some adult children as well as elders are starting to express acceptance of institutional elder care. The authors argue that institutional care for aging parents is likely to become a major option for parent care as adult children become increasingly unavailable due to the one-child policy, the need to work, and perhaps distant residence.
Recent developments in institutional elder care in China changing concepts and attitudes
- Authors:
- ZHAN Heying J., et al
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Aging and Social Policy, 18(2), 2006, pp.85-108.
- Publisher:
- Routledge
- Place of publication:
- Philadelphia, USA
This study examines recent developments in institutional care for Chinese elders and attitudinal changes toward institutional care in Tianjin, China. Based on studies in 12 elder home sites and survey interviews with 265 older residents, this study compares institutional differences between government and non-government-owned elder homes, and examines elders' evaluations of elder homes' quality and their level of willingness to stay in elder homes. Findings suggest that government-owned elder homes still enjoy institutional and bureaucratic privileges in funding, staffing, and insurance. Elders' overall evaluation of elder home quality was high. Elders' former living arrangement and financial ability were related to their willingness to stay in the elder home. The unfair competition between governmental and non-governmental elder homes is likely to hinder the development of elder home industry in the free-market system and foster a growing gap between the rich and poor elders in their capability and decisions in elder home care. As adult children become increasingly unavailable due to the one-child policy and geographic mobility, institutional care for aging parents is likely to become one of the major options for parent care. (Copies of this article are available from: Haworth Document Delivery Centre, Haworth Press Inc., 10 Alice Street, Binghamton, NY 13904-1580).