Chinese population is aging at an unprecedented speed, meanwhile China also suffers a lot from disasters. Those areas suffering most from natural disasters are often rural areas, facing even serious aging problem and population vulnerability.The hypothesis of this study is that people’s choice of old-aged care model, once underwent natural disasters, may change to seek a higher-level ability of withstanding disasters, which differs a lot from those choices from who haven’t suffer loss from disaster.This study use data collected by our research team through survey from Shanxi Baoji and the account of the data is 854. Old-aged care model is dependent variable (0= traditional home-based care, 1=non-traditional home-based care) and whether they have suffered property losses (0=No, 1=Yes) is independent variable. To analyze the relativeness between the two variables, and the dependent variable is two-valued variable, logit model is available.According to the regression result, the possibility of people who suffering property losses in a disaster choose non-traditional home-based care is 414.32% higher than the one who haven’t suffered. Specifically, the significance of the parameter is 2%. Preference of old-aged care model among people who have suffered property losses in natural disasters have apparently changed.One of our implication is that once traditional home-based care way be chosen, it means that at least a kinship has to take care of him and sacrifice working time or even a better work opportunity, which is of less possibility would one who have suffered property losses in a disaster choose.
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