EXAMINING THE SPATIAL MISMATCH OF THE ELDERLY CARE DEVELOPMENT LEVEL:A CASE STUDY OF JIANGSU PROVINCE
With the deepening of the aging of society in China,the construction of sustainable elderly care re-source system has become an important action to actively deal with the increasing number of aging popula-tion.The spatial matching of elderly care facilities not only needs to consider the number of facilities,but also combines service quality,as well as multiple service functions such as medical treatment and entertain-ment.According to the factors of healthcare and elderly care,this paper develops an index of elderly care de-velopment level accounting for the quantity,capacity,diversity and the medical factors.This study takes 95 districts and counties of Jiangsu province as the study area and assesses the spatial distribution of pension re-sources.The Gini coefficient and spatial autocorrelation analysis are used to study the heterogeneity in the el-derly care development level among districts and counties,and the spatial regression model is used to ex-plore impact of the health factors.The results showed that:1)High administrative level and economically de-veloped districts and counties have certain advantages in the development level of elderly care facilities be-cause of their perfect medical facility system.2)There is a spatial mismatch between the development level of elderly care facilities and the degree of aging in districts and counties.3)Health facilities play a signifi-cant role in promoting the development level of pension facilities.
elderly care facilityspatial heterogeneityspatial effectelderly care development levelhealth factors
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