Preparedness to Age in Place Among Older Adults in Malaysia

IF 1 Q4 GERONTOLOGY

Ageing International Pub Date : 2024-03-08 DOI:10.1007/s12126-024-09558-9

Halimah Awang, Tan Chin Lung, Nur Fakhrina Ab Rashid, Norma Mansor, Tan Lih Yoong, Kama Firdaus Subbahi

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The rapid pace of ageing raises concerns regarding financial security, health and long-term care and place for older people to live as they age. This paper examined the factors associated with preference to age in place (AIP) among 2231 respondents aged 60 and older from the Malaysia Ageing and Retirement Survey (MARS). The Categorical Principal Component Analysis (CATPCA) was utilized to identify variables that represent family supports, social connectedness and social participation. 75% of the respondents indicated that they would like to age in place with the binary logistic regression showing a greater likelihood among respondents with strong family and social connectedness, having a spouse, being non-Chinese and being in a good health condition. Urban respondents, with a high individual capacity and social participation, are less likely to age in place. There is a need to strengthen the family institutions and communities, providing incentives and support to promote ageing in place and empower them to remain sustainable for future generations.

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马来西亚老年人居家养老的准备情况

老龄化的快速发展引起了人们对老年人的经济保障、健康和长期护理以及居家养老问题的关注。本文研究了马来西亚老龄化与退休调查（MARS）中 2231 名 60 岁及以上受访者选择居家养老（AIP）的相关因素。本文采用分类主成分分析法（CATPCA）来确定代表家庭支持、社会联系和社会参与的变量。75%的受访者表示愿意居家养老，二元逻辑回归结果显示，家庭和社会联系紧密、有配偶、非华裔和健康状况良好的受访者居家养老的可能性更大。而个人能力强、社会参与度高的城市受访者则不太愿意居家养老。有必要加强家庭机构和社区，提供激励和支持，以促进居家养老，并使他们有能力为子孙后代保持可持续发展。

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Ageing International GERONTOLOGY-

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2.70

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6.70%

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期刊介绍： As a quarterly peer-reviewed journal that has existed for over three decades, Ageing International serves all professionals who deal with complex ageing issues. The journal is dedicated to improving the life of ageing populations worldwide through providing an intellectual forum for communicating common concerns, exchanging analyses and discoveries in scientific research, crystallizing significant issues, and offering recommendations in ageing-related service delivery and policy making. Besides encouraging the submission of high-quality research and review papers, Ageing International seeks to bring together researchers, policy analysts, and service program administrators who are committed to reducing the ''implementation gap'' between good science and effective service, between evidence-based protocol and culturally suitable programs, and between unique innovative solutions and generalizable policies. For significant issues that are common across countries, Ageing International will organize special forums for scholars and investigators from different disciplines to present their regional perspectives as well as to provide more comprehensive analysis. The editors strongly believe that such discourse has the potential to foster a wide range of coordinated efforts that will lead to improvements in the quality of life of older persons worldwide. Abstracted and Indexed in: ABI/INFORM, Academic OneFile, Academic Search, CSA/Proquest, Current Abstracts, EBSCO, Ergonomics Abstracts, Expanded Academic, Gale, Google Scholar, Health Reference Center Academic, OCLC, PsychINFO, PsyARTICLES, SCOPUS, Social Science Abstracts, and Summon by Serial Solutions.