2022 OCT 27 (NewsRx) — By a News Reporter – Staff News Editor at China Daily News — New science research is reported. According to news from beijingPeople Republic of China, by NewsRx correspondents, the research said, “The public long-term care insurance (LTCI) scheme has been implemented in a few countries. Although crowding-out, crowding-out, and specialization hypotheses may aid our understanding of the relationship between LTCI and informal care use, existing studies may suffer from reverse causation.
Financial support for this research came from the Major Program of National Philosophy Fund and social sciences of China.
Our news reporters got a quote from the research of the University of International Business and Economics“Using a quasi-experimental design, this study investigated the policy effect of LTCI on informal care utilization among community-dwelling older adults in China. Based on data from three waves of Chinese Longitudinal Survey of Healthy Longevity, a scaled difference-in-differences (DID) approach with propensity score matching (PSM) was used to analyze the impact of LTCI on the likelihood and hours of informal care use. The results showed that, for older people with disabilities, LTCI reduced the likelihood and 82.4% of weekly hours of informal care by 43.3%. LTCI also showed a knock-on effect among older people without disabilities by reducing the likelihood and weekly hours of informal care by 5.2% and 12.2%, respectively. Therefore, we argue that policy makers can consider rolling out the program nationwide.
According to the editors, the research concluded: “In the meantime, measures are needed to avoid a sharp decline in informal caregiving.
This research has been peer reviewed.
For more information on this research, see: Public long-term care insurance and informal care use among community-dwelling older people in China. Health and social care in the community2022. Health and social care in the community can be contacted at: Wiley, 111 river streetHoboken 07030-5774, NJ, USA.
News correspondents report that additional information can be obtained from Jing Ning, School of government, University of International Business and Economics, beijingPeople Republic of China.
The direct object identifier (DOI) for this additional information is: https://doi.org/10.1111/hsc.14080. This DOI is a link to a free or paid online electronic document, and can be your direct source for a journal article and its citation.
Journal editor contact details Health and social care in the community is: Wiley, 111 river streetHoboken 07030-5774, NJ, USA.
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