What are the objects and forms of services for the elderly living at home

Abstract: Ageing in place refers to the socialized service of solving daily life difficulties for the elderly living at home with the family as the core, the community as the backing, and the professional service as the reliance. The service targets of home care are narrower in scope, mainly the "three have-nots" elderly. The forms of services for the elderly living at home include day-care services, home-care services, and integrated services. The next step is to take a look at the detailed knowledge of the elderly at home. What is home care?

Home care service refers to the government and social forces relying on the community, for the elderly living at home to provide life care, housekeeping services, rehabilitation and spiritual comfort and other aspects of a form of service. It is a supplement and renewal of the traditional family model of old age, and is an important element in the development of community services and the establishment of an old age service system in China.

Home care service recipients

Home care is mainly promoted by the government's purchase of services, and the service recipients are limited to a relatively small range: the "three have-nots", etc., and their costs are mainly borne by the government. In some places, the elderly are encouraged to buy their own services, which are appropriately subsidized by the government.

Forms of home care services

1, day care services: through home care service centers, to provide the elderly with life care, rehabilitation and health care and spiritual comfort services.

2. Door-to-door care services: service personnel go to the door to provide care services for the elderly living in their own homes who are partially capable of living but unable to take care of themselves, and for the elderly who are sick and bedridden for long periods of time, and for those who have no children or whose children are not around to provide care services.

3. Harmonious services: combining elderly people with similar interests in specialized places provided by home care service centers, so that the elderly can give full play to their own interests and specialties, relieve their minds and bodies, and expand their sociability.

Contents of home care services

1, life care: to provide the elderly with rest, meal preparation, hairdressing, housekeeping services and other general care and special care services such as escort.

2. Medical care: providing medical services such as rehabilitation, mental health, hospice care and health education for the elderly.

3. Legal rights protection: providing the elderly with legal counseling, legal aid, judicial maintenance, and services to safeguard the legal rights of the elderly in terms of support, property and marriage.

4. Culture and education: providing the elderly with services such as schools for the elderly, library reading, calligraphy and painting, and distance learning and training.

5. Sports and fitness: providing services such as activity places, rest and fitness facilities, and fitness teams for the elderly.

Home care service center system safeguard measures

1, the development of home care service development planning

Governments at all levels should be closely integrated with local realities, scientific research and development of local urban and rural communities to develop home care service planning, and incorporate it into the overall planning of local economic and social development and community building in the overall plan, and overall arrangements, to promote the rapid and healthy development of home care services. Healthy development.

2, increase government investment and rational allocation of resources

Governments at all levels should change their functions, with economic development and social progress, and gradually increase investment, study and formulate the policy and measures of the "people's government" to encourage and support social forces to participate in, and set up the home care service industry. Governments at all levels should take into account issues such as the construction of home-based elderly care facilities, team building and operations and management, and rationalize the allocation of resources. Conditional areas can be targeted to set up special funds, the opening of subsidized projects, and to explore the model of home care services adapted to local characteristics.

3, the implementation of preferential policies to support home care services

The implementation of the country's current tax incentives for elderly service organizations, the nursing home category of elderly service organizations to provide elderly services are exempted from the business tax, the various types of non-profit elderly service organizations are exempted from the property tax on their own property, land, urban land-use tax, etc..

4, the establishment and improvement of community home nursing service network

Integration of resources, the establishment and improvement of community home nursing service network. In accordance with the local community construction planning and the actual needs of the elderly, in cooperation with various departments, integrate resources, in urban communities and most of the rural towns and villages to build a comprehensive home care service centers, home care service sites and other basic service facilities, and vigorously promote the development of specialized geriatric medical care and health, rehabilitation and nursing care, culture, sports and recreation, information and consulting, gerontological education, and other services, and to build a network of community services for the elderly, to provide the elderly with close and convenient access to the community, and to improve the community service network. Provide the elderly with a wide range of services close to their homes. Elderly people who take care of themselves are attracted to go out of their homes to community services for the elderly to receive services and take part in activities; for those who cannot take care of themselves, specialists are sent to their homes to provide them with a variety of services to meet the needs of the elderly in terms of life care, medical care, culture and recreation, and psychological comfort. Relying on urban community information platforms, the community generally establishes service hotlines for the elderly, emergency rescue systems, digital network systems and other forms of help and services, and builds convenient and effective information systems for services for the elderly.

5. Strengthening the construction of service teams

Strengthening the construction of home care service teams combining specialization and volunteers. Various types of vocational training institutions should be encouraged to carry out vocational skills training for home care service personnel, and the examination is issued to the appropriate professional qualification certificate. Seriously implement the professional social workers professional level evaluation system, the scientific definition of home care services in the positions and duties of professional social workers, and strengthen the absorption and training of social work professionals. At the same time, strengthen the professional ethics education of home care service personnel, improve and enhance the overall quality of the service team.

To vigorously develop community home-based elderly care service volunteer organizations, to encourage and support community residents and community units and so on to provide a variety of forms of elderly care services for the elderly living at home.

To gradually improve and enhance the status and treatment of home-based elderly care service personnel. Closely linked to the implementation of the social workers professional level evaluation system, for the home care service professionals to implement the corresponding material treatment; qualified personnel engaged in home care services, in accordance with the provisions of the corresponding employment and re-employment support policies.

6, actively cultivate and develop home care service organizations

In accordance with the principle of the government's function transformation and separation from enterprises, undertakings and associations, home care services can be divested of the government's service functions should be handed over to social organizations and non-profit institutions as far as possible to do, to the market and enterprises to do. Governments at all levels should actively cultivate and standardize the management of various types of home care service agencies, and encourage the development of home care service agencies to develop the service model of continuous radiation, chain operation and unified management.

7, the establishment of home care services management system

Governments at all levels should strengthen the management and supervision of the work of home care services, and establish the appropriate working mechanism. In districts, streets (townships) and communities (villages) to establish home care service centers, stations, entrusted by the government to be responsible for the implementation and management of home care services in the jurisdiction, its main responsibilities are: the establishment of an information base for the elderly, the release of information on the demand for services for the elderly and the supply of social services, the qualification of elderly people enjoying government subsidies for the elderly to assess the qualifications of the elderly at home; home care service personnel to review the qualifications of the relevant, to accept the feedback of the service information of the service recipients, check the service It also examines the qualifications of home care service personnel, receives service feedback from service recipients, and inspects and supervises service quality. It also undertakes other elderly service matters entrusted by the government.

8, effectively strengthen the leadership of the work of home care services

Governments at all levels should fully recognize the importance of the development of home care services in the new situation, put it on the government's work agenda, and, in accordance with the spirit of this opinion, to grasp the formulation of policies and measures in line with the actual local situation. All relevant departments should strengthen cooperation and actively support the development of home-based elderly care services. The offices of the aging work committees at all levels should earnestly fulfill the function of comprehensive coordination, cooperate with the relevant departments, and actively promote the development of home-based elderly care services.