Priorities and Instruments of Local Elderly Care Policies in China: Text Mining and Comparative Analysis

Abstract

Health care for the elderly is one of the key issues in the field of public health. In the context of global aging, the government's policy framework for elderly care affects the development of local elderly care. The priorities and instruments of the elderly care policy are important windows for understanding the local development planning system. This paper uses a quantitative text analysis method based on text mining to analyze 3,618 provincial policies in China. Considering the pilot demonstration projects for elderly care selected by the Chinese government in recent years, this paper finds that local elderly care policies have a three-phase evolution, and the priorities in each phase are solving the legacy of transition, expanding private sector participation, and realizing the well-being of the elderly. Moreover, mature regions use more environmental policy instruments, and the most effective are financial services, regulatory systems, and strategic guidance. For immature regions, it is necessary to use more core instruments on the premise of using basic instruments so that public policies can serve local development and realize the well-being of the elderly.

Evolutionary game analysis of community elderly care service regulation in the context of “Internet +”

“…However, there is little research on the quality of service in community elderly care. It is common knowledge that a strict regulatory system is conducive to the sustainable development of the elderly care industry ( 26 ). Based on this, some authors not only discussed how to improve the quality of community elderly care services, but also focused on improving the supervision of elderly care services.…”

Promoting the Integration of Elderly Healthcare and Elderly Nursing: Evidence from the Chinese Government

“…Therefore, we need to calculate the index weight in the subgroups. According to the guiding ideology of the SOFPDCHE and the related literature [ 31 , 32 , 33 , 34 ], we eventually concluded five important indexes, i.e., the main policies, the medical resources, the natural resources, the economic support, and the personnel training and employment encouragement. Meanwhile, we adopted the entropy method [ 35 , 36 , 37 ] to measure the weight values of these five indexes.…”

Knowledge Structure and Evolution of Elderly Care Services: A Visualized Analysis

“…Government has the responsibilities to put more manpower into the staff training [68], intervene resource allocations [70] and rationally layout the senior service facility system [71]. Environmental policies for mature regions and core instruments for immature regions are necessary [72]. At the same time, due to the finite capabilities of the government, plenty of private enterprises pour into the pension industry.…”