老人居住安排选择—代间关系之探讨.pdf

45 64 JOURNAL OF HOUSING STUDIES, VOLUME 15 NO. 2, DECEMBER 2006 老人居住安排選擇—代間關係之探討 An Analysis on the Living Arrangement Choices of the Elderly: A Discussion on Intergenerational Relationships 曾瀝儀*　張金鶚**　陳淑美*** Li-Yi Tseng* Chin-Oh Chang** Shu-Mei Chen*** 摘　要 (PSFD) 2004 50% 關鍵詞 ：老人、居住安排 、代間關係 、社會交換 ABSTRACT Previous researches about the elderly living arrangement pay much attention to the characteristics of the elderly, rather than the influences of children. This study, however, attempts to explore the factors influence the living arrangement of the elderly and their children. Moreover, the “neighboring living arrangement” of the elderly and their children makes the two generations not only could take care of each other, but also possess free and private residential spaces by themselves. Such issue wasn’t discussed in the past, so this study also discusses this living arrangement of the two generations in order to realize the influence of intergenerational interaction on the choices of the living arrangement. This study uses multi-nominal logistic regression model to analysis the data of Panel Study of Family Dynamics (PSFD) in 2004. The empirical results shows that the widowed , with low education attainment and unemployed elderly prefer to live with their children significantly. The widowed characteristic especially plays stronger marginal effect, which decreases the probability of living alone fifty percents for the elderly. Housing owned by parents, with under school- age grandchildren and highly educated children would increase the probability of co-residence of two generations. When the elder parent is unhealthy or being single, co-residence with children is a better choice. However, for the children, co-re