News 1+1丨What kind of services do the disabled elderly need? How to cultivate and supplement professional talents?
Disabled elderly are a very important group of elderly with special difficulties.
By the end of 2021, there are more than 40 million disabled elderly people in my country, who need different levels of life care and nursing.
When people are old and cannot take care of themselves, what kind of protection do we need?
What kind of services can you expect in the future?
"News 1+1" connected with Du Peng, member of the Expert Committee of the National Committee on Aging and Vice President of Renmin University of China, to jointly pay attention to: How to care for the disabled elderly?
Elderly care services for the elderly with special difficulties
On October 26, the Ministry of Civil Affairs held a regular press conference for the fourth quarter of 2022.
Among them, the relevant content of the "Guiding Opinions on Carrying out Visiting and Care Services for the Elderly with Special Difficulties" was first interpreted at the press conference.
In addition to visiting and caring, among the elderly with special difficulties, more than 40 million disabled elderly need different levels of life care and nursing services.
What kind of services do disabled seniors need?
How to take care of the disabled elderly?
Since 2016, my country has piloted the establishment of a long-term care insurance system. So far, it has covered 49 cities, with a total of 1.72 million people enjoying long-term care insurance benefits.
In addition, according to data released by the Ministry of Civil Affairs, there are currently only 322,000 elderly care workers in my country. After considering family care, there is still a short-term shortage of over one million elderly care workers.
The imbalance between supply and demand, how to provide services for the disabled elderly, and who should provide the services?
49 cities have piloted the long-term care insurance system for the disabled elderly. What is the effect?
Du Peng, member of the Expert Committee of the National Committee on Aging, Vice President of Renmin University of China: Since the pilot establishment of the long-term care insurance system in my country in 2016, it has covered 49 cities so far. effect.
It can be seen from several aspects: (1) reducing medical insurance expenditure; (2) enabling the elderly to receive more professional rehabilitation and nursing services; (3) reducing the family pressure and care pressure of the elderly.
Therefore, we can see that the country is also steadily promoting this system, hoping to make the long-term care insurance system the sixth insurance after endowment insurance and medical insurance.
Under normal circumstances, pensions and medical insurance can cover a large part of the living expenses of the elderly, but the pressure of care is increasing, so we also hope that long-term care insurance can solve this problem in the future.
How to promote and improve the long-term care insurance for the disabled elderly in the future?
Du Peng, member of the Expert Committee of the National Committee on Aging, Vice President of Renmin University of China: At present, the main body of long-term care insurance financing still relies on a part of the medical insurance.
Recently, like some insurance companies, life insurance is also trying to transform its responsibility with long-term care insurance, and these are also further opening up channels for financing.
From the aspect of employment, long-term care insurance is different from general insurance, and it must be implemented in service in the end, so professional people are needed.
Some cities have already taken measures to cultivate and attract talents, because long-term care insurance is a stable funding channel for hiring professionals. In the future, with the continuous development of long-term care insurance, we hope to attract more young people or nursing staff in the future. , to join the professional nursing team.
Caring for the disabled elderly, how to train professionals to make up for it?
Du Peng, Vice President of Renmin University of China, Member of the Expert Committee of the National Committee on Aging higher requirement.
Therefore, in order to realize the real role of long-term care insurance, on the one hand, in terms of training methods, more vocational schools or colleges and universities will train people, and more importantly, make his career clearer, so that this position can be retained. Live talent.
Because many people are now trained, he may not be able to do this industry.
Now, many cities have introduced incentive measures, which will make more cities join this team and attract more people to join this profession.
(CCTV News Client)