อุปสงค์ของบริการดูแลระยะยาวสำหรับผู้สูงอายุในเขตกรุงเทพมหานคร

บทคัดย่อ

Demand for Long-term Care Services of the Elderly in Bangkok Metropolitan

The objective of this paper is to investigate the factors affecting various types of demand for formal long-term care (hereafter, LTC) services of the elderly in Bangkok Metropolitan Area using primary data and an ordered logit model. We proposed expenditures per type of long-term care service and inter alia asked interviewees about their intention to utilize such services. The results confirm that individual and household factors, i.e. level of ADLs, dependency ratio of the household and the householdls ability to produce care services significantly affect the demand for all types of LTC services. Economic factors, i.e. income of the elderly and household income positively affect the demand for most types of LTC services, while only demand for formal caregivers and day care services is negatively and significantly affected by own price. The results are interpreted to mean that the Bangkok Metropolitan Administration should promote the establishment of public, for-profit and non-profit, long-term care service providers to be able to respond to the increase in future demand in light of demographic change in Bangkok.