School of Management, Jiangsu University, Zhenjiang, China.
Jingjiang College, Jiangsu University, Zhenjiang, China.
Front Public Health. 2024 Oct 11;12:1430679. doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2024.1430679. eCollection 2024.
Under the background of population aging in China, the demand for older-adult care services and products is growing, and the older-adult care industry has great development prospects. A sound older-adult care policy system, that is, an effective policy tool mix, plays an important role in improving the sustainable development of older-adult care industry.
Based on older-adult care policy documents from 31 Chinese provinces, this research extracts older-adult care policy tools via text mining. Then extracted policy tools are taken as conditional variables, and the development of older-adult care industry, which is manifested by the number of older-adult care companies across 31 regions is taken as the result variable. Through applying qualitative comparative analysis, the combined effect of different policy tools on the development of older-adult care industry is obtained.
Results show that a single policy tool cannot constitute the necessary condition to facilitate the older-adult care industry. Hence, policy tools should be applied in combination. Five sustainable policy tool mixes which can promote the development of older-adult care industry are summarized, namely supporting policy-driven mode, fiscal and tax support mode led by supply-oriented policy tools, double-team mode driven by fiscal and tax support and the consumer market, multi-subject joint force mode, and technology compensation mode. The overall findings of this study imply that exploring the policy tool combinations is of vital importance to the sustainable development of older-adult care industry.
在中国人口老龄化的背景下，对老年护理服务和产品的需求不断增长，老年护理行业具有广阔的发展前景。健全的老年护理政策体系，即有效的政策工具组合，对于改善老年护理行业的可持续发展具有重要作用。
本研究基于中国 31 个省份的老年护理政策文件，通过文本挖掘提取老年护理政策工具。然后将提取的政策工具作为条件变量，以 31 个地区的老年护理公司数量来表示老年护理行业的发展情况作为结果变量。通过应用定性比较分析，得出不同政策工具对老年护理行业发展的综合影响。
结果表明，单一政策工具不能构成促进老年护理行业发展的必要条件，因此需要综合应用政策工具。本研究总结了五种可持续的政策工具组合，能够促进老年护理行业的发展，包括支持政策驱动模式、以供给导向政策工具为主导的财政和税收支持模式、财政和税收支持与消费市场驱动的“双轮”模式、多方主体联合发力模式和技术补偿模式。本研究的总体结论表明，探索政策工具组合对于老年护理行业的可持续发展至关重要。
