This paper aims to find out which factors influence older adults' utilization determinants of community care services, using data 'A Survey of Older Adults in Korea' conducted by Korea Institute for Health and Social Affairs (Chung, et al, 1998). Base...
This paper aims to find out which factors influence older adults' utilization determinants of community care services, using data 'A Survey of Older Adults in Korea' conducted by Korea Institute for Health and Social Affairs (Chung, et al, 1998). Based on the Behavioral Model of Andersen and Newman, predisposing factors, enabling factors, and need factors are hypothesized to affect older adults' utilization determinants of home help services, short-stay care services and day care services. Analyses of logit regression show that significant factors of older adults' utilization determinants of home help services are predisposing factors (age and education attainment of older adults), enabling factors (co-residence with children and household income, awareness of home help services), and a need factor (subjective health status). In contrast, older adults' utilization determinants of short-stay care services are influenced by predisposing factors (age and education attainment of older adults) and enabling factors (co-residence with children and household income). All three factors such as predisposing factors (sex, age, and education attainment of older adults), an enabling factor (co-residence with children), and a need factor (activities of daily living) are found to have an impact on older adults' utilization determinants of day care services. Finally, summary and limitations of this paper are presented.