China News Service, January 22 (Xinhua) The State Council Information Office held a regular briefing on State Council policies on January 22 to introduce the "Opinions on Developing a Silver Economy to Improve the Well-Being of the Elderly".
Li Yongxin, head of the Department of Elderly Care Services of the Ministry of Civil Affairs, said at the meeting that the development of home-based community elderly care services is an important measure to comply with the wishes of the elderly and allow them to enjoy a happy old age. It is also an important measure to implement the national strategy of actively responding to the aging population and promote the improvement of home-based community institutions. It is an inevitable requirement for a coordinated elderly care service system that combines medical and health care.
In recent years, the Ministry of Civil Affairs has vigorously promoted the development of elderly care services to focus on home communities and has made significant progress.
The first is to increase policy support.
Promote the national level to introduce supporting policies related to planning land, facility construction, financial investment, tax incentives, investment financing, institutional cultivation, talent team and other support policies for the development of home community elderly care services, and publish a number of national and industry standards.
The second is to optimize the layout of service resources.
Promote localities to strengthen the construction of community home-based elderly care service networks, develop regional elderly care service centers with comprehensive functions such as full-day care, day care, door-to-door services, and regional coordination and guidance at the county (city, district) and township (street) levels, support and cultivate A chain, branded and large-scale community elderly care service institution.
As of the third quarter of 2023, there are 359,000 community elderly care service institutions and facilities and 3.085 million community elderly care beds across the country, and 392 counties (cities, districts) have established demonstration community home elderly care service networks.
The third is to explore innovative service models.
Guided by the needs of the elderly, innovatively provide multi-level and diversified home and community elderly care services to solve the urgent needs and worries of the elderly.
For example, in order to solve the practical difficulties of eating at home for the elderly, we have deployed and actively developed elderly meal assistance services across the country; in order to meet the home care needs of the disabled elderly, we have organized and implemented actions to improve basic elderly care services at home and in the community, explored the construction of home elderly care beds, and carried out assistance Home-based elderly care services include cleaning, bathing, medical assistance, walking assistance, and emergency assistance; in order to improve service accessibility, encourage the construction of community-embedded elderly care service institutions to extend professional services to the bedside around the elderly.
Li Yongxin emphasized that in the next step, the Ministry of Civil Affairs will implement the requirements of the "Opinions" to further enhance the supply capacity of home and community elderly care services and better improve the well-being of the elderly.
The first is to continue to improve the policy system for home and community elderly care services, focusing on the detailed requirements for community home elderly care service networks and home elderly care beds.
The second is to continue to implement actions to improve basic home and community elderly care services and form an effective model of home and community elderly care services that can be replicated and promoted.
The third is to continue to promote the construction of community home care service networks and complete the goal of building 500 demonstration community home care service networks during the "14th Five-Year Plan" period as scheduled.