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Influencing Factors to Retirement Home Decision in Taiwan

This study investigated the influencing factors to retirement home decisions in Taiwan. The effect of socio-demographic variables, health conditions, and needs to characteristics were examined. The objective of study was people whose age over 50 in Taiwan. The questionnaires were collected by mail and there were 755 valid samples. The findings from this study include the followings. First, using hierarchical logistic regression, the major predictors to decision to retirement home are: 1.insurance condition; 2.independence and autonomy; 3.comfort and convenience. Second, medical facilities and services are not major predictors to retirement home decision in Taiwan. This is quite different from the findings in America and European countries. The possible reason is that there are abundant medical resources and the medical accessibility is high in Taiwan.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:NSYSU/oai:NSYSU:etd-0613102-114724
Date13 June 2002
CreatorsChiu, Hui-Ning
ContributorsLian-Chi Huang, Shu-Huan Yeh, Bi-Ciao Chao
PublisherNSYSU
Source SetsNSYSU Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Archive
LanguageCholon
Detected LanguageEnglish
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Sourcehttp://etd.lib.nsysu.edu.tw/ETD-db/ETD-search/view_etd?URN=etd-0613102-114724
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