Difference between home care and community care

1. Different characteristics.

The characteristics of aging in place are aging at home, with more emphasis on aging at home. While the characteristics of community aging more emphasis on the family as the core, in the community where the elderly to provide elderly services.

2, different services.

Home care for the elderly living at home to provide socialized services to solve the difficulties of daily life as the main content. Services include life care and medical services and spiritual care services. Community care provides the elderly living at home with life care, medical care, spiritual comfort, cultural and recreational services.

Extended information:

With the development of the economy and society, in all kinds of material security, medical conditions tend to be complete today, as a population of 1.3 billion people in China, has been No longer worry about the problem of food and clothing, but the face of this populous country is a more difficult problem: the aging of the population. The way of old age relies on two main ways: home care and nursing home care.

But with the changes in the size and function of families in China, the family situation is moving more and more toward miniaturization. The family structure represented by 421 is becoming the mainstream of the society day by day. Even in some coastal developed cities, due to the increase of various pressures, the new structure of Dink family is also more and more. The way the elderly age at home is increasingly unable to meet the needs of social development.

On the other hand, the emergence of nursing home retirement mode, can indeed alleviate some of the difficult problem of old age, but the nursing home retirement is in conflict with China's far-reaching cultural deposits, and will inevitably be contradictory to society.

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