关键词: 居家老年人, 家庭照料, 社会照料, 照料模型

Abstract: Employing data from 2016 China Longitudinal Aging Social Survey(CLASS 2016), this paper analyzes the relationship between family care and social care. A theoretical analysis framework is constructed for the home-based older adults in China—the familial-social care model—based on Parsons structural functionalism and life course theory. The results show that, overall, social care reduces the burden of family members, but the relationship is non-linear. Whether the relationship is substitutive or supplementary depends on the types of social care, health status of the elderly, and endowment of familys economic resources. The theoretical analysis suggests that to achieve the precise matching of social care resources, the older adults subjective initiative and health status, care types, economic status and other individual factors should be taken into account. At the same time, the impacts of macro-level factors, such as the elderly supportive service system and care policy, on individual behaviors depend on the development level of urban and rural areas and also the interplay between service supply and demand.