Spatio-Temporal Characteristics of the Supply and Demand Coupling Coordination of Elderly Care Service Resources in China

Abstract

The current situation and future development of the supply and demand coupling coordination of elderly care service resources reflect the level of elderly care service resource allocation. Whether factors affecting its development can be found is the key to promote the accurate allocation of elderly care service. Based on the coupling coordination model, the supply and demand of elderly care service resources, the development circumstance and the spatio-temporal evolution of supply and demand coupling coordination are analyzed in this paper by using the data of the elderly care service resources in 31 regions and autonomous regions in China from 2010 to 2019. The result shows that there are regional differences in the development of supply and demand coupling coordination of elderly care service resources. The degree of supply and demand coupling coordination of elderly care service resources in the western and northern regions is lower than that in the eastern and southern regions. Although the level in most areas of supply and demand coupling coordination of elderly care service resources will improve in the future, there is still a gap from good coordination. In order to strengthen the supply of elderly care service resources, and promote the upgrade of the supply and demand of elderly care service resources, the government should start from the demand of the elderly to increase investment in infrastructure construction, investment in elderly care services resources, talent training and other aspects.

Potential and realized access to healthcare services in Wuhan Metropolitan Area, China

“…The entropy weighted TOPSIS method can objectively evaluate the level of healthcare resource provision and utilization (Sun et al, 2017), based on which the coupling coordination model allows us to measure the fit (Li et al, 2022); that is, residents’ realized access to healthcare services in WMA. Previous studies have applied the coupling coordination model to assess the supply and demand for urban green growth (Li et al, 2022), early care service (Zhang et al, 2022), and metro systems (Zhu et al, 2021). This study is among the first ones that apply entropy-weighted TOPSIS method and coupling coordination model to the evaluation of residents’ realized access to healthcare services.…”

Research on the assignment of elderly care service personnel with time window constraints

“…Given the significant economic expenses and limited resources associated with community and institutional care, it is evident that home care is the preferred option for the elderly. As a result, a well-established elderly care service system has emerged in major Chinese cities, with home care as the primary approach, supplemented by community care and institutional care [ 13 ].…”

Middle-aged and older people’s preference for medical-elderly care integrated institutions in China: a discrete choice experiment study

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