How to promote the healthy development of socialized elderly care

With the development of the trend of population aging, advanced ageing and family miniaturization, the demand for elderly care services has been increasing. The establishment of a sound institutional mechanism for social pension services and the promotion of the healthy development of social pension services has become the focus of elderly welfare. The necessity of the elderly service mechanism is mainly in the following aspects:

First: Despite the development of social elderly service undertakings in recent years, the effective supply is still insufficient to meet the growing demand for services of the elderly residents. The ratio of the number of beds in elderly care institutions to the number of elderly people is still a large gap with the average level of developed countries, unable to meet the growing practical needs of the elderly. Home-based elderly care services also show problems of insufficient supply, low proportion and low quality. The service radius of publicly-run institutions is relatively small, and the level of specialization of their service personnel is not high enough to allow them to radiate to urban streets and communities, making it difficult for them to meet the needs of the elderly in the community in terms of foster care and day-care. Private elderly care institutions are constrained in their space for development by factors such as high land prices in cities and the scarcity of community housing. For the elderly in need of care, home care services are difficult to provide professional care, rehabilitation, nursing services, elderly residents can not maximize the convenience of enjoying professional services nearby.

Second: home care services, rural areas lag far behind the towns, the elderly service surface is not wide enough, the means of elderly service, service mode, service content need to be further adjusted and improved. In towns and cities, some of the community services for the elderly are not yet functionally sound, the existing service facilities and service level is still difficult to meet the actual needs of the elderly, such as some communities of the elderly, empty nesters, sick and no one to take care of the elderly during the day there are difficulties in dining. In addition, the distribution of services is not reasonable enough, the existing community services for the elderly mainly focus on domestic services, in life care, health services and other aspects of the relative lack of.

Thirdly, in the area of institutional care, the allocation of resources is not reasonable. In some places, it is difficult to find a bed in a nursing home, but at the same time there is also a considerable portion of the beds in nursing institutions are vacant. There are two main reasons for the beds in public institutions to be idle: First, the price of high-grade beds is relatively high, strict conditions for admission, it is difficult for elderly people with ordinary income levels to enter; second, some of the beds are less expensive elderly care institutions and because of poor living and supporting conditions, in addition to social support for the elderly and a few elderly people in need of admission, the general elderly and unwilling to move in. At the same time, nursing care institutions and beds are on the low side is a prominent problem.

Fourth: The construction of the social service system for the elderly is facing many difficulties and problems, which are closely related to the imperfection of the existing institutional mechanism. Although the government has introduced a series of policies in the area of elderly care services, but the lack of systematic overall planning, resulting in a lack of convergence between the policies, and some of the preferential policies can not be implemented in place. For this reason, it is necessary to improve the improvement of the social service system for the elderly, innovative service supply mechanism.