Reports from Shanghai Jiao Tong University Advance Knowledge in Environmental Research and Public Health (Impact of Formal Care Use on Informal Care from Children after the Launch of Long-Term Care Insurance in Shanghai, China)

2020 MAY 12 (NewsRx) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Hospital & Nursing Home Daily -- Data detailed on environmental research and public health have been presented. According to news reporting from Shanghai, People’s Republic of China, by NewsRx journalists, research stated, “The impact of formal care (co-paid by long term care (LTC) insurance) on informal care is critical to the improvement and promotion of public policy.”

Funders for this research include Postdoctoral Science Foundation of Guangxi Province of China.

Our news journalists obtained a quote from the research from Shanghai Jiao Tong University: “We conducted an interview-based survey to examine how the use of formal care impacts the use of informal care in Shanghai, which was one of China’s first long-term insurance pilots in 2016. In addition to total informal care time, the following four types of informal care were considered: (1) household activities of daily living (HDL) tasks, (2) activities of daily living (ADL) tasks, (3) instrumental activities of daily living (IADL) tasks, and (4) supervision tasks. Of the 407 families, an average of 12.36 h (SD = 6.70) of informal care was crowded out each week. Among them, ADL tasks, HDL tasks, and supervision tasks were reduced an average of 4.60 (SD = 3.59), 5.50 (SD = 3.38), and 2.10 h (SD = 3.06) per week, respectively. Each additional hour of formal care reduced 0.473 h of informal care. Care recipients’ gender and health status were also determined to be associated with crowding out hours of informal care.”

According to the news reporters, the research concluded: “These findings can be utilized as empirical evidence for decision-makers to consider the scope of funding for formal care, and this study provides comparable results to developing countries and regions.”

For more information on this research see: Impact of Formal Care Use on Informal Care from Children after the Launch of Long-Term Care Insurance in Shanghai, China. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 2020,17(2938):2938. (International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health - http://www.mdpi.com/journal/ijerph). The publisher for International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health is MDPI AG.

A free version of this journal article is available at https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17082938.

Our news editors report that additional information may be obtained by contacting Huimin Zhang, School of International and Public Affairs, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200030, People’s Republic of China. Additional authors for this research include Xiaoyi Zhang, Youhua Zhao, Jianfeng Huang, Wenwei Liu. Our reports deliver fact-based news of research and discoveries from around the world.