At present, the main ways of providing for the aged in China are

(1) Family pension. Family support for the aged refers to the traditional way that the elderly choose to live in the family and spend their old age safely according to our national living habits.

(2) Home-based community pension. A new mode of providing for the aged combining home-based care and socialized door-to-door service. This model can ensure that the elderly, children, old-age service personnel and the government are in their proper places and make full use of resources. Community home-based care for the aged makes up for the shortage of family care for the aged, and it is a new mode of care for the aged advocated by the government at present.

(3) Institutional pension. Including nursing homes and apartments for the aged. Older people who like to live in groups, especially those who are lonely, live in nursing homes, or form large-scale elderly communities to organize a large number of elderly people to come and live voluntarily. The community provides various specialized services for the elderly. Institutional pension will be the main way to provide for the aged in the future.

Nursing homes adopt elderly people who have no legal dependents or cannot live at home for other reasons. The expenses of nursing homes are all borne by the state, and individuals can also receive part of pensions or pensions according to regulations. China's nursing homes are developed on the basis of rural "five guarantees". During the period of agricultural co-operation from 65438 to 0956, agricultural production cooperatives provided food, clothing, food, medical care and burial (for children and education) to the widowed, widowed, widowed and widowed people who lacked the ability to work and had no support for their lives, which was referred to as "five guarantees" for short.