University of International Business and Economics Reports Findings in Science (Public long-term care insurance scheme and informal care use among community-dwelling older adults in China): Science

2022 OCT 27 (NewsRx) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Daily China News -- New research on Science is the subject of a report. According to news originating from Beijing, People’s Republic of China, by NewsRx correspondents, research stated, “The public long-term care insurance (LTCI) scheme has been implemented in a few countries. Although the hypotheses of crowding-out, crowding-in and specialisation can facilitate our understanding of the relationship between LTCI and informal care use, existing studies may suffer from reverse causality.”

Financial support for this research came from Major Program of National Fund of Philosophy and Social Science of China.

Our news journalists obtained a quote from the research from the University of International Business and Economics, “Employing a quasi-experimental design, this study examined the policy effect of LTCI on informal care use among community-dwelling older adults in China. Based on the data from three waves of the Chinese Longitudinal Healthy Longevity Survey, a staggered difference-in-differences (DID) with propensity score matching (PSM) approach was used to analyse the impact of LTCI on probability and hours of informal care use. The results showed that, for disabled older adults, LTCI reduced 43.3% of the probability and 82.4% of the weekly hours of informal care. LTCI also exhibited a spillover effect among nondisabled older adults through reducing the probability and weekly hours of informal care by 5.2% and 12.2%, respectively. Therefore, we argue that policymakers can consider rolling out the scheme for the entire country.”

According to the news editors, the research concluded: “Meanwhile, measures are needed to avoid a sharp decrease in informal care provision.”

This research has been peer-reviewed.

For more information on this research see: Public long-term care insurance scheme and informal care use among community-dwelling older adults in China. Health & Social Care in the Community, 2022. Health & Social Care in the Community can be contacted at: Wiley, 111 River St, Hoboken 07030-5774, NJ, USA.

The news correspondents report that additional information may be obtained from Jing Ning, School of Government, University of International Business and Economics, Beijing, People’s Republic of China.

The direct object identifier (DOI) for that additional information is: https://doi.org/10.1111/hsc.14080. This DOI is a link to an online electronic document that is either free or for purchase, and can be your direct source for a journal article and its citation.

The publisher’s contact information for the journal Health & Social Care in the Community is: Wiley, 111 River St, Hoboken 07030-5774, NJ, USA.

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