农村失能老人照护模式的优化选择:基于资本配置的视角

Optimal Choice of Care Mode for Disabled Elderly in Rural Areas:From Perspective of Capital Allocation

完善农村失能老人照护是我国构建和谐社会的重要一环,而资本有效配置是照护模式优化选择的必然结果。将农村失能老人照护分为家庭照护、政府照护、机构照护三种模式,从资本配置维度并采取效用函数解析了照护模式选择的均衡性及其约束条件。结果表明,资本最优配置需要满足政府照护支出效用的弹性系数小于家庭照护支出效用的弹性系数,而机构照护支出效用的弹性系数与农村居民人均纯收入和机构照护支出临界值的差额直接相关,且农村失能老人的政府照护支出、机构照护支出均与家庭照护支出之间存在互补关系。

Improving the care of disabled elderly in rural areas is an important part of building a harmonious society in China,and the effective allocation of capital is the inevitable result of optimizing the choice of care mode.The rural disabled elderly care is divided into three modes:family care,government care and institutional care.The equilibrium and constraints of the choice of care mode are analyzed from the dimension of capital allocation and the utility function.The results show that the elasticity coefficient of the optimal allocation of capital to meet the needs of government expenditure on care is smaller than that of family expenditure on care,while the elasticity coefficient of institutional expenditure on care is directly related to the difference between the per capita net income of rural residents and the critical value of institutional expenditure on care.There exists complementary relationships among family expenditure on care,governmental expenditure on care and institutional expenditure on care.