The aging of population is one of the important social subjects which each advanced country faces. In our country not only faces postwar baby boom population will soon enter into the old age, but still has the pressure of low birth rate, accelerates the aging of population phenomenon.
The aging increases the long-term attendance demand, and the low birth rate causes the attendance manpower to be insufficient. In our country, main long-term attendance resources still come from the family, but the Ministry of Interior (in 1999) investigated the material to demonstrate that elderly people in long-term care institutions have a rising trend year by year. According to various countries' long-term care system development experience, the populace to each kind of long-term care service's values and the attitudes are the very important references. We hope by this research to understand elderly people in the choice of long-term care institution related factors, to provide the reference of our institutional care and development.
This research uses the National Healthy Bureau "in 2003 the Taiwan area middle and old age body and mind society condition long-term
tracing investigation" the secondary material, to discuss the influent factors that the elderly people want to live into long tern care institutions. The results showed that affect the elderly to live in elderly long-term care institutions, the factors for the 50-64 years old, without a spouse, level of education above high school or college, existing with no children or only one or two children, economic satisfaction more well, suffering from heart disease, poor perceived health status, its long-term care institutions in the possibility of higher.
