Pattern of Elderly Living Arrangement in Asia

Abstract

Changes in Asian household composition indicated that proportion of elderly are not living with their children and the proportion of ‘living alone’ has become an increasing pattern of living arrangements. This concept paper will gauge on factors associated with pattern of living arrangement preferred by Asian elderly based on ten existing research studies collected from secondary sources such as Google Scholars and Research Gate from year 2010- 2020 for literature review analysis of pattern of elderly living arrangements. The study reveals that elderly living arrangements in Asia is predominantly to live with children due to Asian cultural values embedded. However, ‘living alone’ shows an increasing trend which associated with factors like socioeconomic background, abusive experience, income, health issues, privacy and freedom. This study highlight on role of society in willingness to provide for the elderly that lives alone with poor financial conditions. Government should upgrade their policy on financial assistance that helps elderly enjoy their later life with better policy of societal aging.