Academic Journal of Humanities & Social Sciences, 2026, 9(5); doi: 10.25236/AJHSS.2026.090507.
Tianhui Li1, Ying Li2, Weige Sun3, Jingyi Li1, Guorui Zhao2
1School of Business, Guangdong Ocean University, Yangjiang, China
2School of Computer Science and Engineering, Guangdong Ocean University, Yangjiang, China
3School of Mechanical and Energy Engineering, Guangdong Ocean University, Yangjiang, China
Against the backdrop of an aging population and regional population mobility, the uneven distribution of elderly care resources has become a key issue restricting the high-quality development of institutional elderly care. This paper takes the staff of elderly care institutions in Guangdong Province, planned residents, and young and middle-aged people who have not yet considered institutional selection as the research subjects, uses stratified random sampling to obtain micro-questionnaire data, uses entropy weight method to objectively assign weights, constructs a three-system coupling coordination model of supply-demand-intergenerational cognition, integrates macro-city data and micro-group survey data, and conducts an empirical analysis of the uneven distribution of regional elderly care resources and its impact on institutional elderly care development. Research findings:(1) More than 90 percent of the 21 cities in Guangdong Province are supply-lagging, with only Zhuhai and Shaoguan being demand-lagging. (2) After adding intergenerational cognitive levels, the Pearl River Delta and the eastern, western, and northern parts of Guangdong maintain the characteristic of supply lag and show a gradient order of supply< demand < generational. (3) There are three major contradictions among the regions: a mismatch between supply and demand, a mismatch between generational cognition and supply, and a larger gap in supply-side hard power than that in cognitive soft power. The study proposes differentiated strategies at the levels of government, elderly care institutions, and communities, which can provide empirical references for balancing the allocation of regional elderly care resources and improving the quality and services of institutional elderly care.
Uneven distribution of regional elderly care resources; Institutional care; Intergenerational cognition; Coupling coordination model
Tianhui Li, Ying Li, Weige Sun, Jingyi Li, Guorui Zhao. An Empirical Study on the Impact of Uneven Regional Elderly Care Resources in Guangdong on the Development of Institutional Elderly Care from the Intergenerational Perspective of Coupled Coordination. Academic Journal of Humanities & Social Sciences (2026), Vol. 9, Issue 5: 43-50. https://doi.org/10.25236/AJHSS.2026.090507.
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