Analysis on the Relationship between Foreign Spouse and Elderly Suicide

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Title:	Analysis on the Relationship between Foreign Spouse and Elderly Suicide
Authors:	LAI, YING-CHIEH
Contributors:	健康產業管理學系健康管理組碩士在職專班
Keywords:	elderly suicide;culture differences;immigrant spouses
Date:	2017
Issue Date:	2017-09-15 05:26:55 (UTC+0)
Publisher:	亞洲大學
Abstract:	Objective: Immigration is a global issue. Taiwan has a high proportion of citizens marrying foreigners. The immigrant spouses are expected to take care of the aging parents-in-law at home on the basis of filial piety in Taiwan. Accordingly, the elders’ original lifestyle habits are faced with the influx of multiculturalism, which becomes a problem for the elderly to adapt to new cultures and resolve conflicts caused by different cultures. Difficulties in communications in many aspects of daily life occur between the elderly and immigrant spouses, and result in the elderly becoming vulnerable and thus, influencing their psychological well-being. Although past studies demonstrated that due to cultural differences, employed foreign care providers negatively influenced elder care quality (e.g., care receipts’ health or mortality rates), no studies have explored whether immigrant spouses, as family caregivers, have any type of influence on elderly suicides due to cultural differences. To address this gap, this study was to examine the relationship between immigrant spouses and elderly suicides. Methods: National-level authority data, comprising a 10-year longitudinal nationwide sample from 2004 to 2013, were used. The number of foreign spouses were treated as a proxy for the prediction of elderly suicide rate. Twelve models of the outcome of the elderly suicide rate with and without city and time fixed effects were conducted using linear regressions. Results: Descriptive statistics of study variables were provided. The results revealed that overall the number of the immigrant spouses had positive influences on the elderly suicides. Further, the gender of immigrant spouses had different impacts on the elderly suicides. Conclusion: This was the first study to examine the influences of the immigrant spouses on the elderly suicide rate. The study results enhance a better understanding of the role of immigrant spouses in elder care, with a focus on relations with the elderly suicides while promoting elderly-caregiver interaction for optimal elder health outcomes. The study results can be a foundation for the government to provide training to immigrant spouses about how to manage cultural conflicts with older people. Training opportunities should be available in the community, such as Chinese language, culture and religion training programs.
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