Research on the constitution and influential factors of the care cost for the elderly in Chinese town

摘要

The elder people are the disadvantaged groups in the society, so the care cost is the main factor to solve the problem of taking care of the elder people. This article takes the concept of care cost as a starting point in consideration and analyzes the structure and developing trend of the agedness care cost in Chinese town, basing on the study of care cost constitution with questionnaires. The DEMATEL economic statistics model is adopted to make the measurement for the influential factors of care cost. The result shows that the most influential factors should be income, sex and career. Based on the analysis, the advices are given in order to implement the elder security system and promote the coordinated development of the economy and society.