According to data released by the Ministry of Civil Affairs, as of the first quarter of this year, there were 360,000 elderly care institutions and facilities nationwide with 8.126 million beds.
The total number of old-age beds nearly doubled from 4.165 million at the end of 2012.
In recent years, relevant departments have continuously optimized the form of elderly care services, especially exploring the establishment of family elderly care beds, to better meet the family care needs of the disabled elderly.
With the deepening of my country's population aging, home-based care has encountered many new problems and challenges. In some places, there have been phenomena such as difficulty in finding a bed in public nursing homes and high prices for private nursing homes.
Ensuring that the elderly have a place to live and support them has become an increasingly urgent task.
Family old-age beds, centralized care beds in old-age institutions, and temporary nursing beds in community old-age service centers together constitute the "three beds" of old-age care services. "One Bed".
The family pension bed enables the elderly, especially the moderately and severely disabled elderly, to enjoy professional elderly care institution services at home, effectively solving the problem of "urgency, difficulty and hope" for the elderly, and reducing the burden on the family.
Therefore, it is necessary to create conditions and innovate services to "move" more old-age beds into homes.
Shenyang, Nanjing, Yinchuan, Wuhan, Jiaxing and other places have introduced measures to "move" elderly care beds into homes.
Up to now, Shenyang has built more than 3,900 family pension beds, providing more than 50,000 door-to-door services, and the service time is more than 70,000 hours.
By the end of this year, Shenyang City will build 4,500 family care beds to continuously meet the needs of elderly care services.
From a national perspective, the family pension bed is still in the exploratory stage, and has not formed a due scale that matches the demand. Therefore, multiple measures must be taken to consolidate the "third bed" for the elderly.
On the one hand, further clarify the tripartite responsibilities of local governments, elderly care institutions, and families.
The local government must adhere to the basics and the bottom line, introduce support policies related to family pension beds, and guide social forces to actively participate in the construction of family pension beds; pension service institutions should give full play to their brand, chain and resource advantages to provide professional services for the elderly and their families. It is necessary to establish a family-based elderly care service model, give play to the basic role of family members in long-term home care services for the elderly, and continuously improve the ability and level of family care.
On the other hand, the role of digital empowerment of smart elderly care will be brought into full play.
Home care beds are equivalent to deploying 24-hour online "nursing workers" for the elderly. Only digital empowerment can truly "move" nursing homes home.
The service platform and management platform should connect with the data of the old-age service management information platform of the civil affairs department, capture and collect the relevant service data of the smart old-age service cloud platform in real time, and equip the elderly with a watch-type GPS locator, one-key emergency call, smart mattress, etc. All kinds of smart terminal products suitable for aging make the elderly feel more at ease and family members more at ease.
Wen Jicong