Preferences for public long-term care insurance among middle-aged and elderly residents: A discrete choice experiment in Hubei Province, China.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

It is critical to incorporate residents' preferences into the design of long-term care insurance (LTCI). However, little is known about middle-aged and elderly residents' preferences for personalized need-related attributes of LTCI in China. Through a discrete choice experiment (DCE), we aimed to focus on the direct beneficiaries of LTCI and then elicit their preferences for LTCI under a hypothetical scenario of dysfunction.

Methods

Attributes and levels were defined through a literature review and two rounds of expert consultations (n = 8). A D-optimal fractional factorial design was used to generate the DCE questionnaire. Face-to-face interviews with middle-aged and elderly residents were conducted in two cities in Hubei Province, China, between November a

SUBMITTER: Ma H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9909219 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature