Just after 11 noon, the aroma of vegetables emanated from the Xinyu Community Canteen in Yonghua Road Street, Anci District, Langfang City, Hebei Province. The steaming meals were neatly placed on the table by the window.
"Bring me a braised eggplant, two flower rolls, and a bowl of egg soup..." Zhou Jimin, a 75-year-old community resident, comes here on time every day to "check in." "The food here is nutritious with both meat and vegetables, delicious, inexpensive and convenient." Zhou Jimin's children are usually busy with work. There was no community canteen before. Lao Zhou's three meals a day was their biggest headache: every noon, I had to rush back to cook for my father.
In April last year, the canteen in Lao Zhou's community officially opened, solving a problem that had troubled them for many years. "Now I come to the community canteen to eat every day. The children are relaxed and more at ease." Zhou Jimin said.
Xinyu Community Canteen is the first livelihood pilot project in Anci District that is led by the government, operated by enterprises, supported by the community, and participated by the society. "The number of elderly people in our community is relatively large." Zhao Dongmei, secretary of the Party branch of Xinyu Community, said that with more elderly people, it will naturally become difficult to cook and eat. After many investigations, the community decided to build the canteen in the Jiahui Artistic Community, which is located in the center of the community, to facilitate the nearby 5,000 residents of two or three surrounding communities to eat.
"On the premise of ensuring the quality and portion of the dishes, we also implement discounts based on age groups to ensure that the elderly's meals are lower than the market price, truly allowing the elderly to eat with confidence and enjoy themselves." Zhu Wei, the person in charge of the community canteen, introduced that the household registration in this jurisdiction Seniors over 70 years old can enjoy a 20% discount when dining in community canteens, seniors over 80 years old can enjoy a 30% discount, and senior citizens over 90 years old can enjoy a 50% discount.
It is understood that Langfang City’s registered elderly population over 60 years old exceeds 920,000, and dining is a major need for the elderly after medical treatment. In recent years, Langfang City has started from the "tableside" of the elderly and actively explored the "central kitchen + community canteen (meal assistance point) + home delivery" meal assistance through individual payments, corporate profits, and government coordination. model to solve the problem of difficulty in eating for the elderly. Currently, more than 40 community canteens have been built in the city.
While accelerating the construction of community canteens, Langfang also continues to extend the service chain of integrated medical and nursing care, building community canteens into an important platform for expanding community home-based elderly care services, promoting the integration of medical and nursing care, and helping the elderly live a happy life.
At 5:30 pm, in the Shangshan Yiyuan Community in Guangyang District, Liu Chunli, the person in charge of the community canteen, set out on time to deliver dinner to the elderly in the community's "elderly apartment". "We make healthy meals based on the elderly's eating habits and the 'three highs' taboos, and deliver them to them at regular times and at designated locations." Liu Chunli said that in addition to the 122 elderly people living in the "elderly apartment", Shangshan Yiyuan Community also has 466 homebound elderly people over 60 years old.
How to make healthy meals? Shangshan Yiyuan Community has specially set up a "Community Health Management Center" to establish health files for the elderly in the community, and collect blood pressure, blood sugar, cardiovascular and cerebrovascular and other related data in real time for dynamic monitoring and management. "Based on the health records of the elderly, we launched the 'Smart Pan' system, which accumulates the nutritional index of the elderly's intake based on their daily meals in the canteen and provides them with targeted healthy diet guidance," Liu Chunli said. .
Reporter Shao Yuzi
(People's Daily)