Review on Home-based Care for the Aged in China -- Visualization Analysis based on Citespace

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10.2991/ielss-19.2019.22How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Care for the aged mode; socialized pension; home-based care for the aged; Citespace.

Abstract

In recent years, with the deepening of the aging of population in China, the academic circles pay progressively attention and conduct more and more researches on the care for the aged mode. Home-based care for the aged, as one of the main cares for the aged modes, has become a hot topic. This thesis adopts the method of bibliometrics and visualization analysis, and uses the Citespace software to carry out keyword co-occurrence, author co-occurrence, and research institutions co-occurrence to provide quantitative description of number of literature, research institutions, periodicals distribution, research fronts and other overall characteristics for the researches on the home-based care for the aged over 10 years at home and abroad, with the core literature of China National Knowledge Infrastructure (CNKI) database from 2009 to 2019. It reveals the evolution pathway, main research contents and hotspots of home-based care for the aged research at home and abroad. Via the review of the literature on home-based care for the aged in China, we find out the deficiency of present research and forecast its future development trend. The analysis indicates that: 1. In terms of the research subject, the research on home-based care for the aged is concentrated in colleges and universities; 2. As for the research content, domestic research on home-based care for the aged focuses on the mode, service system, and community home-based care for the aged, etc. The research on the mode of home-based care for the aged is still in a dominant position, whereas the research on care for the aged services distribution continues to increase. 3. When it comes to research methods, the research methods focus on qualitative research, while there are few quantitative studies. With increasingly intensifying population aging in China, the issue of care for the aged has become a hot topic in all sectors of society. According to the statistics of the national bureau of statistics, in 2018, the population aged 65 or above in China was 166 million, increasing by around 4.8% over 2017; and the old-age dependency ratio was 16.8%, increasing by around 5.7% over 2017 [1]. At the same time, the family structure has presented a trend of miniaturization in the context of continuous economic development and deepening social transformation. As a traditional China’s care for the aged mode, the function of family-based care for the aged is gradually weakening, and it can no longer cope with the challenges brought by aging of population alone. The home-based care for the aged mode that relies on community has gradually received attention by academic circles. Advocating that the elderly can live at home and the society provides care services, this way not only appeals to the intention of the elderly who want to live at home, but also can meet their service requirements while reducing the burden on family members.

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© 2019, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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