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Does Long-term Care Insurance Improve the Health Performance of the Elderly?

Authors
Jingwei Zhang1, *
1Lingnan college Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, China
*Corresponding author. Email: zhangjingwei021106@163.com
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Jingwei Zhang
Available Online 21 October 2024.
DOI
10.2991/978-2-38476-295-8_30How to use a DOI?
Keywords
Long-term care insurance; the elderly; mental health; social security
Abstract

With the intensification of China’s population aging, long-term care insurance, as an important social security system, plays an increasingly prominent role in improving the health performance of the elderly. This article aims to explore the impact of long-term care insurance on the subjective welfare of the elderly, especially their mental health. Based on the data from 2015 and 2018 China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study (CHARLS), this article evaluates the implementation effect of long-term care insurance policy using a difference-in-differences model. Results show long-term care insurance policy significantly reduces the mental stress of the elderly and improves their mental health. Further heterogeneity analysis shows that there is a significant heterogeneity effect of long-term care insurance policy among different groups: urban residents achieve a greater reduction in mental stress from long term care insurance compared to rural residents, and the mental stress reduction is greater for the disabled elderly. This article not only enriches the theory of active aging, but also provides empirical support for building a new development pattern of long-term care insurance with universal coverage.

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Volume Title
Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Public Administration, Health and Humanity Development (PAHHD 2024)
Series
Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research
Publication Date
21 October 2024
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978-2-38476-295-8
ISSN
2352-5398
DOI
10.2991/978-2-38476-295-8_30How to use a DOI?
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© 2024 The Author(s)
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Open Access This chapter is licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/), which permits any noncommercial use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license and indicate if changes were made.

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