The Impact of Accessibility of Community Elderly Care Services on Quality of Life of the Elderly

Background/Objectives: With the gradual increase in population aging and the prevalence of the empty nest, community elderly care services have become an effective service model for responding to population aging because they can alleviate the decline in family care function and meet the needs of elderly homecare patients. This paper aims to identify the influence mechanism of the accessibility of community elderly care services on the quality of life of the elderly. Methods: This paper surveyed a total of 949 elderly people and adopted the interview questionnaire survey method, and it used ordered logistic regression to analyze the impact of accessibility on the quality of life of the elderly. Results: The study finds that approachability, availability, acceptability, and accommodation affect the living environment satisfaction of the elderly. Accessibility affects environmental satisfaction by influencing the service utilization frequency, and accessibility affects the psychological health and environmental satisfaction of the elderly by influencing service utilization satisfaction. Conclusions: The improvement of accessibility can increase service utilization and, thus, improve the welfare of the elderly. So, the government should improve the accessibility of community elderly care services.