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Research progress in measurement of care needs of older adults: a review
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Shijun YANG1, Jingjing LUO1, Kejia ZHU1, Yichi ZHANG1, Chengchao ZHOU1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Chinese Journal of Public Health | 2025, 41(10) : 1261 - 1268
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Chinese Journal of Public Health | 2025, 41(10): 1261-1268
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Research progress in measurement of care needs of older adults: a review
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Shijun YANG1, Jingjing LUO1, Kejia ZHU1, Yichi ZHANG1, Chengchao ZHOU1, 2, 3, 4, 5
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  • 1Department of Social Medicine and Health Management, School of Public Health, Cheeloo College of Medicine, Shandong University, Jinan 250012, China
  • 2NHC Key Laboratory of Health Economics and Policy Research (Shandong University), Jinan 250012, China
  • 3Center for Health Management and Policy Research, Shandong University (Shandong Provincial Key New Think Tank), Jinan 250012, China
  • 4Institute of Health and Elderly Care, Shandong University, Jinan 250012, China
  • 5Advanced Medical Research Institute, Shandong University, Jinan 250012, China
Published: 2025-10-10 doi: 10.11847/zgggws1147648
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With the acceleration of population aging worldwide, the proportion of older adults with functional impairments is gradually rising. Accordingly, increasing care needs emerge. Studies have explored the measurement of care needs, while most studies are confined to single-domain measurement, and there is a lack of systematic summary. With the literature research method, we classified the care needs into three dimensions of duration need, manpower need, and expense need and reviewed the related research contents and results to reveal the measurement dimensions and commonly used tools for care needs. Furthermore, we analyzed the reliability, validity, and application status of the measurement tools, aiming to facilitate the quantitative evaluation of the large and personalized care needs of Chinese older adults. The results showed that the available studies on care duration need measurement usually used the length of time that older adults receive care within a certain time range to evaluate the care duration or intensity. The studies on the measurement of manpower need usually included the roles and number of formal and informal care providers. Domestic scholars mostly predicted the manpower need of disabled older adults from a macro perspective. The measurement of care expense needs mainly included the direct and indirect costs when older adults received care. Most studies predicted expense needs based on the population size with care needs. However, there are few studies on comprehensively predicting the duration, manpower, and expense needs of older adults. Therefore, future studies should consider the above measurement dimensions of care needs, the coordination of formal and informal care, and the combination of macro and micro needs, thus providing a basis for meeting the care needs of older adults and promoting rational allocation of care resources at the government level.

older adults  /  care need  /  measurement dimensions
杨士鋆, 罗京京, 朱柯嘉, 张亦弛, 周成超. 老年人照料需求量的测量研究进展. 中国公共卫生, 2025 , 41 (10) : 1261 -1268 . DOI: 10.11847/zgggws1147648
Shijun YANG, Jingjing LUO, Kejia ZHU, Yichi ZHANG, Chengchao ZHOU. Research progress in measurement of care needs of older adults: a review[J]. Chinese Journal of Public Health, 2025 , 41 (10) : 1261 -1268 . DOI: 10.11847/zgggws1147648
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doi: 10.11847/zgggws1147648
  • Receive Date:2025-04-09
  • Online Date:2026-10-25
  • Published:2025-10-10
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  • Received:2025-04-09
  • Revised:2025-06-03
  • Accepted:2025-08-02
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    1Department of Social Medicine and Health Management, School of Public Health, Cheeloo College of Medicine, Shandong University, Jinan 250012, China
    2NHC Key Laboratory of Health Economics and Policy Research (Shandong University), Jinan 250012, China
    3Center for Health Management and Policy Research, Shandong University (Shandong Provincial Key New Think Tank), Jinan 250012, China
    4Institute of Health and Elderly Care, Shandong University, Jinan 250012, China
    5Advanced Medical Research Institute, Shandong University, Jinan 250012, China

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