Purpose: Due to population aging, the need for long-term institutional care is increasing. We
study the potentially modifiable sociodemographic factors that affect the rate of entry into and …

The social care system of China has come under close scrutiny from policy makers due to
the rapid ageing of China's population. Unfortunately, there is very little Chinese research …

OBJECTIVES: South Korea introduced public long-term care insurance (LTCI) in 2008. This
study examined the patterns of and factors associated with public long-term care (LTC) …

In this paper we examine whether there are systematic differences in the quality of life,
depending on whether an individual is institutionalised or not, holding health status and …

Introduction Institutional care has been strongly promoted in China to meet seniors' long-
term care needs. Empty-nest elderly, in comparison with their counterparts, have less social …

Objective: to assess the separate contributions of marital status, living arrangements and the
presence of children to subsequent admission to a care home. Design and methods: a …

We investigated the extent to which the geographic proximity of adult children affected the
relocations of older people in the Netherlands in 2008. A major contribution of this study is …

Background Previous research has shown that home ownership is associated with a
reduced risk of admission to institutional care. The extent to which this reflects associations …

Objectives. Objectives were to study the effects of socioeconomic factors on transitions in
living arrangements and mortality for men and women. Methods. We used a sample of Finns …

Background Population ageing and social transformation present tremendous challenges to
the informal support system of older adults, which engendered institutional care in China …