Elderly Care Model of Chengdu No.2 Social Welfare Institution

(1) Family Foster Care

Borrowing from the family foster care model for orphaned children, the Chengdu No.2 Social Welfare Institution has successfully applied this model to the "three noes" elderly group.

Following the guiding principle of "government funding, social support, family fostering, and unified guardianship", the "three nos" (no fixed breadwinner, no fixed source of living, and no ability to work) elderly people living in the Chengdu No. 2 Social Welfare Institution are entrusted to a family fostering program at the Chengdu No. 2 Social Welfare Institution in accordance with the following procedures In accordance with the procedures for family fostering, the elderly are entrusted to the support of qualified families in the community. During the period of foster care, the domicile and guardianship of the foster elderly still belongs to the Second Social Welfare Institute.

After a number of visits to Chengdu and neighboring areas, through the collaboration of the two sides of the real city, has chosen Ziyang City, Chengdu City, Wenjiang District, two families as the "three no" elderly fostering point, in full consultation with the elderly on the basis of their own views, will be in the hospital for a long period of time in the living of a 105-year-old male elderly into the On the basis of thorough consultation with the elderly themselves, a 105-year-old male elderly person who had been living in the Home for a long time was sent to a family in Ziyang City, and an 85-year-old female elderly person was sent to a family in Wenjiang District. Corresponding management measures were formulated in such areas as selection of families, signing of agreements, follow-up and management, and regular visits. On the basis of the pilot mature gradually pushed out.

"Three no" elderly family foster care to achieve the elderly support mode from centralized to decentralized, from closed to open, from institutional care, to raise the main single mode to the development of multiple support mode change, help to improve the quality of life of the elderly living at home, so that the "three no" elderly enjoy the integration of family. The change from a closed to an open model to a pluralistic model of support will help improve the quality of life of the elderly living at home and enable the "three no's" to enjoy the atmosphere of family life in which they can integrate with one another, while at the same time alleviating the pressure on the caregivers of welfare institutions.

(2) Elderly living in other places

The traditional home care, community care and nursing home care are only suitable for the elderly who are in average financial conditions, in poor health or older. As for some old people with better financial basis, not too old and in good health, they are not willing to accept the traditional way of old age, but are keen on the modern way of migratory birds' style of off-site old age, which can be used as a three-in-one solution by going to the overseas summer vacation in the summer in the company of the old people or chartering a bus to the neighboring attractions for tourism. In order to meet the needs of this part of the elderly, Chengdu City, the second Social Welfare Institute formulated the "Interim Measures for Off-site Elderly," "Off-site Elderly Reception Program," and launched the Off-site Elderly model.

Under this model, the Chengdu No.2 Social Welfare Institution divides seven types according to the needs of the elderly:

Travel and tourism - providing information about scenic spots in various regions for the elderly who want to travel and tourism outside the country; and arranging for travel to the nursing home they are staying in according to their requests.

Family-visiting and friendship-type--provide elderly people who want to visit their relatives and make friends with them with nursing homes that are close to their relatives, rich in elderly activities, and convenient for them to make more elderly friends and arrange for them to stay in them; set up a small group of elderly people who visit their relatives and make friends with them in other places according to the situation.

Leisure and vacation type--Providing and arranging for the elderly who want to go abroad for leisure and vacation to stay in nursing homes with a quieter and more comfortable environment that is suitable for leisure and recuperation.

Learning and communication - for the purpose of learning and communication for the elderly, to provide a greater number of love of learning, like to communicate with the elderly to stay in the nursing home, in order to facilitate mutual learning among the elderly.

Migratory bird type - elderly people who are willing to go to the south in winter and to the north in summer to avoid the summer heat can join the "migratory bird group" to realize their wishes; at the same time, corresponding arrangements are made for elderly people who want to travel alone.

Retreating in other places - some of the elderly whose health is a bit poor but they can travel far and want to recuperate in nursing homes or sanatoriums with beautiful environment and suitable climate, for example, those who have asthma and want to recuperate in Yunnan where the climate is always mild and spring-like, we can contact the local nursing homes or sanatoriums according to the wishes of the elderly and make arrangements for transportation and ticketing and other matters. The company will also arrange for transportation to and from the hospitals.

Adventure tourism type - for the very healthy, love adventure elderly people to provide relevant adventure tourism information, and in the local contact a good stay in the nursing home.

In November 2007, the Chengdu Second Social Welfare Institution was officially awarded the first batch of "designated reception units for the elderly in other places" by the China Association of Social Work under the Ministry of Civil Affairs of the People's Republic of China, and the only state-run designated reception unit in Sichuan Province.