Does Cohabitation with Children Reduce the Risk of Disability Among Taiwanese Elderly－Findings From a Eighteen-year Follow-up Study
Date Issued
2014
Date
2014
Author(s)
Hsiao, Hui-Hsin
Abstract
Backgrounds: The ideal and prevalent living arrangement among Taiwanese elderly is living with his or her children. Cohabitation with children would improve the health of the elderly through children''s social support, but researches also found out the negative cohabitation effect. The purpose of this study is to understand whether corresidence with children influences the disability of the elderly in the context of Taiwan.
Method: Data comes from the survey of Taiwan Longitudinal Study on Ageing. The dataset consists data of six waves for 18 years. This paper presents a random effect model for the analysis of serial responses of disability status provided by a panel of study participants.Each subject’s serial responses are assumed to arise from a logistic model, but with regression coefficients that vary between subjects. A dynamic panel model was used to estimate the effect of living arrangement on disability among Taiwanese Elderly.
Result: The paper describes and analyzes research on the dynamics of disability and living arrangement (including the effect of dynamics on parameter estimates, implications for child effect and non-child effect). The disabled risk is higher for those who corresided with children than those who lived alone, and so was other living arrangement (compared to lived alone). When analyze the lagged variable of living arrangement, the disabled risk is higher for other living arrangement, while the disabled risk for those who corresided with children is no different from those who lived alone. Furthermore, the diabled risk is lower for those who changed his living arrangement from living apart to corresiding with children, compare to those who didn’t change his living arrangement.
Conclusion: Previous studies found inconsistent corresidence effect. In the context of Taiwan, this paper shows that in lagged living arrangement, there is no difference in the risk of disability between corresidence and living alone. And it is discovered that change in living arrangement (to cohabitation with children) has lower risk of disability, which means short-term change in living arrangement (other than long-term stable libing arrangement) still has impact on the disability among the elderly.
Subjects
當期居住安排
前期居住安排
居住安排改變
老年人
失能
Type
thesis
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