{"title":"Association Between Community Care Services Availability and Quality of Life Among Older Adults: Evidence from China","authors":"Jian Sun, Xuanru Lyu, Yujiang Liu","doi":"10.1007/s11482-024-10382-1","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Little is known concerning the association between community care services availability and quality of life. The objective of the present paper is to examine the association between community care services availability and quality of life. The data were sourced from 2018 wave of Chinese Longitudinal Healthy Longevity Survey (CLHLS). Ordered logit regression models were applied to examine the correlation of community care services availability and quality of life. Both binary logit regression models and generalized random forest models were used for robustness checks. There is a strong positive relationship of community care services availability and quality of life (coefficient = 0.3103, <i>p</i> < 0.01). Robustness checks using binary logit regression models and generalized random forest models report similar results. Heterogeneity analysis results reveal that the relationship of community care services availability and quality of life differs by age, gender, and residency area. Impact channel analysis results show that social participation is a channel involving the association of community care services availability and quality of life. It is of great significance for Chinese government to improve community care services availability.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":51483,"journal":{"name":"Applied Research in Quality of Life","volume":"19 6","pages":"3463 - 3477"},"PeriodicalIF":2.8000,"publicationDate":"2024-10-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Applied Research in Quality of Life","FirstCategoryId":"90","ListUrlMain":"https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11482-024-10382-1","RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q1","JCRName":"SOCIAL SCIENCES, INTERDISCIPLINARY","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
Little is known concerning the association between community care services availability and quality of life. The objective of the present paper is to examine the association between community care services availability and quality of life. The data were sourced from 2018 wave of Chinese Longitudinal Healthy Longevity Survey (CLHLS). Ordered logit regression models were applied to examine the correlation of community care services availability and quality of life. Both binary logit regression models and generalized random forest models were used for robustness checks. There is a strong positive relationship of community care services availability and quality of life (coefficient = 0.3103, p < 0.01). Robustness checks using binary logit regression models and generalized random forest models report similar results. Heterogeneity analysis results reveal that the relationship of community care services availability and quality of life differs by age, gender, and residency area. Impact channel analysis results show that social participation is a channel involving the association of community care services availability and quality of life. It is of great significance for Chinese government to improve community care services availability.
期刊介绍:
The aim of this journal is to publish conceptual, methodological and empirical papers dealing with quality-of-life studies in the applied areas of the natural and social sciences. As the official journal of the ISQOLS, it is designed to attract papers that have direct implications for, or impact on practical applications of research on the quality-of-life. We welcome papers crafted from interdisciplinary, inter-professional and international perspectives. This research should guide decision making in a variety of professions, industries, nonprofit, and government sectors, including healthcare, travel and tourism, marketing, corporate management, community planning, social work, public administration, and human resource management. The goal is to help decision makers apply performance measures and outcome assessment techniques based on concepts such as well-being, human satisfaction, human development, happiness, wellness and quality-of-life. The Editorial Review Board is divided into specific sections indicating the broad scope of practice covered by the journal. The section editors are distinguished scholars from many countries across the globe.