PATTERNS AND DETERMINANTS OF SOCIAL-SERVICE UTILIZATION - COMPARISON OF THE CHILDLESS ELDERLY AND ELDERLY PARENTS LIVING WITH OR APART FROM THEIR CHILDREN
PATTERNS AND DETERMINANTS OF SOCIAL-SERVICE UTILIZATION - COMPARISON OF THE CHILDLESS ELDERLY AND ELDERLY PARENTS LIVING WITH OR APART FROM THEIR CHILDREN
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DOI：
10.1093/geront/34.3.353
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发表时间：
1994-06-01
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影响因子：
5.7
通讯作者：
CHOI, NG
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作者：
CHOI, NG
大约五分之一的老年人没有孩子。在没有孩子提供重要的情感和工具支持的情况下，无子女的老年人是否比年迈的父母更有可能使用社会服务？对老龄化纵向调查数据的分析表明，无子女的老年人比年迈的父母更有可能表示他们在生病时缺乏非正式的工具性支持。然而，无子女的人并不比年迈的父母更有可能使用社会服务。建议采取改善无子女老年人社会服务利用的策略。
Approximately one out of five elderly persons are childless. In the absence of children who provide important emotional and instrumental support, are childless elderly more likely to use social services than are elderly parents? Analysis of data from the Longitudinal Survey of Aging shows that the childless elderly were more likely to say that they lacked informal instrumental support at times of illness than were the elderly parents. Nevertheless, the childless were no more likely to use social services than were the elderly parents. Strategies to improve the childless elderly's social service use are recommended.