This study intended to understand the factors influencing the utilization of charged retirement home services for the elderly by stage of discision making. The purpose of this study is to measure the demand and to identify factors influencing the utilization of charged retirement home services of the elderly by stage of decision making.
The results of this study were as follows.
1. To identify the factors influencing the utilization of charged retirement home services, non-utilizer(N=471) and utilizer (N=50) were analyzed by x²-test, t-test, multiple logistic regression. Significant factors were age (B = 0.230), partner (B = 2.756), income (B = 1.069), need of charged retirement home(B = 1.172), significant othes (B = 0.268), locus of control (B = -0.589).
2. The factors influencing the recognition of residence problem were house satisfaction(B = -0.226), need of charged retirement home (B = 0.283).
3. The factors influencing the selection of charged retirement home as an alternative to solve the residence problem were adult residence (B = -0.774), house satisfaction(B = 0.222), significant others (B = 0.127).
4. The factors influencing the dicision-making of the utlization of charged retiremet home were adult children-married (B = 1.845), charged ability of utilization(B = -1.129), effect of utilization (B = 0.672).
5. The factors influencing the actualization of utilizing were age(B = 0.277), partner(B = 4.891), income(B = 1.505), need of charged retirement home (B = 0.997).
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