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Abstract

Life Happiness is an important issue in promoting healthy aging. The objective of this study aims to examine the
influent of socioeconomic statuses and investigate the effect of other factors such as ageism on the happiness of
Thai older persons. This study uses data from the 2014 Survey of Social Cultural and Mental Health conducted by
the National Statistical Office. The sample is collected in the Thai older persons, a total of 8,914 participants. The
data were analyzed using regression statistics, it was found that socioeconomic status, marital status, and ageism,
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can predict the happiness level of Thai older persons by 8.7 percent with statistical significance (R = .087, F
(6, 8907) = 142.23, p = .000).

Keywords: socioeconomic, ageism, happiness, older persons

489 Conundrum faced by Elders in Residential Care Services in Hong Kong

Gigi Lam

Hong Kong Shue Yan University, Hong Kong, Hong Kong

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8. Population Dynamics, Demographic Transition and Population Ageing

Abstract

Hong Kong implements an aging policy involving the core themes of “aging in place as the core,” “institutional care
as backup” and “continuum of care.” Top priority is assigned to encouraging elders to stay at home, whereas elders
who are not able to live at home independently are provided with a variety of residential care services, namely
Hostels for the Elderly, Homes for the Aged, Care and Attention (C&A) Homes for the Elderly, and Nursing Homes
(NHs). The subsidized residential care homes for the elderly (RCHEs) clearly outperform private RCHEs in terms of
spacing and staffing provisions, but the supply of subsidized RCHEs cannot meet demand. The most urgent task is
to increase the availability of subsidized RCHEs according to demand. Several viable measures involve purchasing
Enhanced Bought Place Schemes (EBPSs) from private RCHEs, subsidizing elders who opt for living in private RCHEs
by Comprehensive Social Security Assistance (CSSA) and Residential Care Service Voucher (RCSV) and subsidizing
elderly applicants who opt for living in RCHEs in Guangdong. These viable measures, however, are problematic
because of inadequate quality of EBPSs and private RCHEs, which is attributed to the pricing and costing
arrangement of public and private RCHEs in colonial period.

252 Understanding the prolonged economic activity of older people in India

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Poulomi Chowdhury , Mausam Garg
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1 University of Canberra, Canberra, Australia. International Institute for Population Sciences, Mumbai, India
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