Chinanews.com, Beijing, November 26 (Reporter Du Yan) "Beijing’s "Fourteenth Five-Year Plan" Ageing Career Development Plan (hereinafter referred to as the "Plan") was officially released today.
The "Planning" pointed out that during the "14th Five-Year Plan" period, the aging of Beijing's population has accelerated, and it is expected that by the end of the "14th Five-Year Plan", it will move from mild aging to moderate aging.
By 2035, the elderly population will be close to 7 million, and the aging level of the population will exceed 30%, entering severe aging.
The aging population of Beijing accelerates
The "Planning" pointed out that the base of the elderly population in Beijing is large. At the end of the "13th Five-Year Plan" period, the number of permanent residents over 60 years old in Beijing was 4.299 million, an increase of 637,000 from the end of the "Twelfth Five-Year Plan" period. The population will reach 5.17 million, an increase of 870,000 from the end of the "13th Five-Year Plan" period.
The aging of the population has rapidly developed into the new normal. It is expected that by the end of the "14th Five-Year Plan", the aging level of Beijing’s population will reach 24%, from a mild aging to a moderate aging.
By 2035, Beijing’s elderly population will be close to 7 million, and the aging level of the population will exceed 30%, entering a severely aging population.
The proportion of elderly people in Beijing has decreased slightly, and the proportion of elderly people aged 80 years and above has shown a slight downward trend.
However, after the "14th Five-Year Plan", as the population born at the first baby boom begins to reach advanced age, by 2035, the elderly population will exceed 1 million, the social dependency ratio will continue to increase, and the aging trend will accelerate.
Healthy elderly care has become the most urgent and prominent demand
The "Planning" pointed out that the average life expectancy of the registered population in Beijing has exceeded 82 years, and health and longevity have become the greatest wish of the elderly.
With the further acceleration of the population aging process, the number of disabled and semi-disabled senior citizens has increased significantly. The health and care problems of the elderly will become the most prominent problems in the process of population aging. The demand for medical and health services and the demand for life care are superimposed. The trend will become more and more significant.
The "Plan" pointed out that Beijing will improve the social pension insurance system, establish a sound multi-level medical insurance system, guarantee the basic old-age care for the elderly, promote various medical guarantees, and link each other to further reduce the burden of personal medical expenses.
Encourage commercial insurance companies to develop commercial health and pension insurance products, and vigorously expand insurance products and services such as major diseases and hospitalization.
Optimize the protocol management process of designated medical institutions.
Explore the inclusion of basic therapeutic rehabilitation projects into the scope of basic medical insurance payment.
At the same time, improve the social welfare, social assistance, social preferential treatment, and social charity systems for the elderly, and continue to do a good job of preferential treatment for the elderly.
Establish a multi-level long-term care security system
According to the "Plan", Beijing will actively and steadily advance the pilot work of a policy-based long-term care insurance system, and implement a long-term care insurance system that conforms to the city's conditions in the city at an appropriate time.
Establish standard systems and management methods for disability assessment, identification of nursing needs, and nursing services.
Carry out a comprehensive long-term care service guarantee action plan project to guarantee the long-term care service needs of the elderly in special difficulties.
Explore commercial long-term care insurance as an effective supplement to policy long-term care insurance.
Support commercial insurance institutions to participate in policy-based long-term care insurance handling services.
Vigorously develop nearby elderly care services
According to the "Plan", Beijing will support families in taking care of the elderly.
Implement the home-based care service regulations and improve the neighborhood-based care service network for the elderly.
Improve the home care service model in which the government provides basic public services, enterprises and social organizations provide professional services, and grassroots organizations and volunteers provide public welfare mutual assistance services, and build a home based on the community as a platform, social organizations as the carrier, and social workers as the support The "three-community linkage" mechanism of community service for the elderly.
Establish an old-age service consultant system.
Comprehensively implement a comprehensive assessment of the abilities of the elderly.
The inspection system for the elderly will be improved, and the elderly in need will receive effective assistance.
Community emergency support systems for the elderly at home are generally established.
Relying on community psychological service stations, promote the development of psychological care services for the elderly.
At the same time, Beijing will strengthen the construction of community elderly care service facilities and improve the level of rural elderly care services.
By 2025, 280 street (township) elderly care centers and no less than 1,200 community elderly service stations will be built and operated.
The institutional arrangements to deal with the aging of the population are gradually improved
The "Planning" pointed out that by 2025, Beijing's institutional arrangements for actively responding to an aging population will be gradually improved.
Initially establish an elderly-friendly city with capital characteristics that is compatible with a world-class harmonious and livable capital, and is coordinated with the strategic positioning of the capital city and the coordinated development strategy of Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei.
The health service system for the elderly and the service system for the elderly have been further improved.
The level of social security for the elderly, public services, social preferential treatment, family support, and social participation has been further improved.
The ability to respond to risks has been continuously strengthened, the vitality of the development of the aging industry has been further stimulated, and the construction of a livable environment for the elderly has been fruitful.
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