Research on Older Adults’ Willingness to Enroll in Health Care Services based on Andersen Behavioral Model

Abstract

Ageing has increasingly become a severe social problem nowadays, resulting in burden for both whole society and each family unit. Jiangsu is a typical aging province in China with dramatically increasing aging population. This paper analyzed Andersen behavioral model theoretically and empirically, and made an overview about older adults’ healthcare services utilization behavior from three aspects, namely, predisposing characteristics, enabling resources, and need factors. This paper revealed that it is significant to apply Andersen behavioral model in older adults’ healthcare services utilization in Jiangsu to understand older adults’ healthcare enrollment behavior, and provide evidence for healthcare services providers and policy makers to better manage and allocate social resources to improve services quality thus relieve family pressure brought by aging society.