Research on the Theme of One-child’s Needs for Parents’ Elderly Care based on Thematic Analysis of the BTM model

Abstract

Objective China is facing a serious aging problem, because there will be 190.64 million senior people in China, or 13.50 percent of the country's total population by the end of 2020. People who experience the one-child policy have entered the stage of old age Families with fewer children have more strain from their parents' advanced age. Therefore, this research aims to find one child's needs for caring for aging parents. Methods In this study, a total of 279 posts and more than 13,000 related comments were gathered using a Python crawler to harvest data from the Only Child parents' elderly care Exchange Organization group on Douban. The BTM algorithm, a topic model approach for short texts, and the sentiment analysis dictionary from the Harbin Institute of Technology were employed in this study to analyze sentiment. Results in Seven themes were detected by the BTM model. The sentiment analysis results demonstrated that users' positive and negative feelings were mixed. Conclusion Children in Chinese families with one child face a more significant burden of aging out, especially in terms of money, work, and marriage. The time-consuming and laborious care of the elderly puts them under more pressure to work. Therefore to relieve the pressure of old age for only children we have to start from three aspects.