What are the types of pension institutions?

Abstract: The institution for the aged is a proper term for social pension, which refers to an institution that provides comprehensive services such as diet, hygiene, life care, health management and cultural and sports activities for the elderly. It can be an independent legal person institution or a department or branch affiliated to a medical institution, enterprise, institution, social organization or comprehensive social welfare institution. The main service targets of old-age care institutions are the elderly, but some old-age care institutions (such as rural nursing homes) also accept orphans and disabled children or disabled people within their jurisdiction. The following small series will take you to understand the types and characteristics of old-age care institutions. What are the characteristics of old-age care institutions?

Characteristics of old-age care institutions

Public welfare is "public interest". Public welfare undertakings refer to departments, enterprises and their facilities that directly or indirectly serve social and economic activities, social activities and residents' lives. Public welfare enterprises refer to enterprises directly related to social public interests. The vast majority of old-age care institutions in China mainly provide relief and assistance to the "three noes" in cities, neglect the care of daily life and the "five guarantees" in rural areas, and most of them do not take profit as the main purpose, especially the public welfare characteristics.

Different from other services, the old-age service is a holistic, all-round service. The so-called "whole person" service means that the old-age care institutions should not only meet the basic life care needs of the elderly, such as food, clothing, housing and transportation, but also meet the needs of the elderly in medical care, disease prevention, nursing and rehabilitation, as well as spiritual, cultural, psychological and social needs; To meet the above needs of the elderly, all the staff of the old-age care institutions need to work together, which is the so-called "all-staff" service; The vast majority of the elderly regard the old-age care institution as the ultimate destination of their lives. From the day the old people move in, the staff of the old-age care institutions should be prepared to accompany the old people to walk the last mile of their lives, which is the so-called "whole journey" service.

The average age of the elderly living in old-age care institutions is mostly over 75 years old. With the growth of age, aging naturally makes the elderly become a high-risk group of accidents, injuries and sudden death of diseases. In addition, the aged care service industry is a high-risk industry with large investment, long payback period and fierce market competition. If there is no market awareness, business awareness and strict management and risk prevention mechanism, it will inevitably increase the investment and business risks of pension institutions.

Li, Minister of Civil Affairs, pointed out when attending the national conference on the construction of social pension service system that pension institutions should generally maintain non-profit in the construction grade and should not unilaterally pursue high-grade and luxury; In particular, public pension institutions should put an end to the phenomenon of high grade and avoid unfair distribution of social welfare.

Li said that in the construction and operation of old-age care institutions, both normative construction and practical application are equally important. In order to play a supporting role in the development of social pension services, the construction of pension institutions should not only conform to relevant standards and norms, but also be based on practical application to achieve sustainable development. Building according to standards means that the construction of old-age care institutions must meet the standardization requirements of residential buildings for the elderly, social welfare institutions, nursing homes and community day care centers, and realize standardized design, construction and management. The practical application is that the construction of old-age care institutions must be based on reality, do what you can, and do not exceed the level of economic and social development.

On the key points of construction, give priority to the development of supporting and maintaining pension institutions; In the construction site selection, it is necessary to advocate community, facilitate the elderly to participate in social life, and prevent beds from being idle due to unreasonable site selection; On the scale of construction, we can't simply pursue super-scale, and avoid the large and inappropriate old-age care institutions and low occupancy rate.

Li also demanded that the construction of old-age service facilities should fully integrate and utilize existing resources, revitalize existing assets, and avoid blind development, redundant construction and waste of resources. It is necessary to encourage the transformation of idle hospitals, enterprises, rural mass prevention and various public training centers, activity centers, nursing homes, hotels and guest houses. Transform it into an old-age service facility through replacement or change of use.

Types of pension institutions

nursing home

In urban streets and rural towns, the old-age service institutions set up to support the elderly with "three noes" and "five guarantees", the disabled and the elderly in social foster care are equipped with many service facilities such as daily life, culture and entertainment, rehabilitation training and medical care.

Welfare home

Welfare homes are places established by the state, society and organizations to help people with social difficulties and patients with diseases and provide them with food, clothing, accommodation or medical conditions. They contribute to social harmony.

(1) Social Welfare Institute. The main task of social welfare homes is to adopt the "three noes" old people, orphans, disabled children and abandoned babies in cities and towns, implement the working principle of supporting, treating and educating simultaneously, protect the legitimate rights and interests of vulnerable groups and maintain social stability.

(2) the elderly in social welfare homes. Enjoy certain economic subsidies from the state, set up social pension service institutions to accept the elderly to spend their twilight years, and be equipped with many service facilities such as daily life, culture and entertainment, medical care and so on.

nursing home

Nursing homes mainly provide collective housing for the elderly, and the supporting service facilities are relatively perfect. It is a social pension service institution specially established for receiving or comprehensively receiving the elderly who take care of themselves, helping the elderly and nursing the elderly to spend their old age safely. It has many service facilities such as daily life, culture and entertainment, rehabilitation training, medical care and so on.

Elderly residence

It is an apartment-style residence for the elderly, which conforms to the physiological and psychological characteristics of the elderly. With catering, sanitation, culture and entertainment, medical care service system, it is a comprehensive management residence. The apartment for the aged refers to the old-age residence which not only embodies the home-based care for the aged, but also enjoys various services provided by the society, and belongs to the category of institutional care for the aged. In big cities like Beijing and Shanghai, apartments for the elderly have become very common, with low, medium and high grade.

Senile sanatorium

Specially designed to receive the elderly who rely on handrails, crutches, wheelchairs and lifting facilities. Social service institutions for the aged, which are set up for the elderly, have many service facilities such as daily life, culture and entertainment, rehabilitation training, medical care and so on.

nursing home

Also known as "nursing home", or "nursing home", it is a social pension service institution set up to take care of the elderly who can't take care of themselves. It has many service facilities such as daily life, culture and entertainment, rehabilitation training, medical care and so on.

nursing home

Nursing home refers to a medical institution composed of medical staff, which provides basic nursing and specialized nursing for elderly patients, disabled people, dying patients, terminally ill patients and other elderly patients who need medical care for a long time, and provides medical care services for the elderly such as supportive treatment, palliative care, hospice care, technical guidance on disinfection and isolation, community health care for the elderly, nutrition guidance, psychological consultation and health education according to the doctor's advice. According to the caring project of China Foundation for the Development of Aging, there are professional caring nursing homes all over the country to serve all kinds of elderly people. Caring nursing homes provide professional nursing and life care services for the disabled elderly.