People’s Willingness to Pay for Therapeutic Recreation

• Main Authors: Hsiang-Hua Tseng, 曾湘樺
• Other Authors: Tzung-Cheng Huan
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2002
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/87780379024890802377

碩士 === 中國文化大學 === 觀光事業研究所 === 90 === Particularly as people live longer, the chance of physical ailment or accident re-sulting in problems that can be treated by physiotherapeutic means increases. Therapy need not be a formal treatment by a physiotherapist. Some studies specify that therapeu-tic recreation, TR, is a useful alternative to formal treatment. In fact, proactively, it is recognized as a way to keep people healthy. TR is a 40s year old discipline that has been used to help people with physical and psychological problems. TR started in USA when several nurses and volunteers in a hospital employed recreational activities to make aged people more satisfied with their life and health. Now TR is broadly accepted in North America. What occurs as TR is very diversified. It includes music, dance, art, tai chi, games, sports and other leisure activities. Much research about the benefits of TR is in the form of case studies for facilities in Western countries. An important area of re-search, particularly when people pay for someone to participate in TR, is benefits for what is spent. In Taiwan most nursing home residency of elders is selected by and paid for by their progeny. This study is to be based TR occurring in a chain of nursing homes in Taipei and is conducted by personnel interview with convenience sampling. It is to examine the perceptions about the willingness to pay for TR by the people who pay for their elders being in nursing home residency. Relationship among the above variables introduced above will be examined by mean difference, correlation and other statistical analyses to a degree based on control and causal considerations introduced. Basically, there are concerns with whether there are clear benefits of TR and if this has any rela-tionship to the progeny’s willingness to support such “therapy”. The findings of this re-search are to be used for decision-making in relation to planning, promotion and man-agement of the therapeutic recreation.