Middle-aged and older people's preference for medical-elderly care integrated institutions in China: a discrete choice experiment study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

With the continuing impact of the aging population, medical-elderly care integrated institutions, as a way to bear the pressure of medical and elderly care, effectively ensure the quality of life of the elderly in their later years.

Objectives

To explore the preferences of medical-elderly care integrated institutions among Chinese middle-aged and older people and to provide a reference for establishing elderly-oriented development of medical-elderly care integrated institutions.

Methods

In this study, a discrete choice experiment (DCE) was used to investigate the preferences of people aged 45 years and older in medical-elderly care integrated institutions in China from October 20, 2022, to November 10, 2022. A mixed logit regression model was used to analyz

SUBMITTER: Jiang MM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10777634 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature