China's aging population aged 60 and above has reached 264 million, according to the seventh national census. In addition, according to statistics from the National Health Commission, about 90 percent of the country's elderly care at home. So, how to grow old at home? This has become an imperative for our society.
Under the background of China's aging population, it is an inevitable trend to improve the service network of home, community and institution and promote the transformation of family pension from traditional to modern. During an inspection tour in Chengde, Hebei province, Xi Jinping stressed: "We need to promote the coordinated development of old-age services and the old-age industry, develop inclusive old-age services, improve the community home old-age service network, and build a old-age service system that coordinates home community institutions and combines medical care with health care." This important discussion points out the direction of efforts to solve the pension problem and coordinate the construction of China's pension service system.
Community home care is an important way to provide for the elderly. Community-based long-term care services are in line with the traditional concepts and needs of the elderly in China. In recent years, China attaches great importance to and steadily promotes the coordinated development of pension service and pension industry, and has made some achievements, but there are also problems such as relatively insufficient supply of pension services and products. To this, to focus on new look forward to the broad masses of old people for a better life, to grasp the new trend in the development of community endowment service, strive to build a community home endowment service system, to speed up the pace of urban and rural residents endowment service marketization, specialization, improving the quality of community home endowment service, advance endowment service industry healthy and rapid development, everybody can enjoy the basic pension services.
Build age-friendly communities. In 2009, in order to adapt to the changing situation of China's aging population, China carried out the pilot work of "age-friendly cities" and "livable communities for the elderly" in 7 provinces and 14 cities and regions. The Law of the People's Republic of China on the Protection of The Rights and Interests of the Elderly, revised in 2012, clearly states that "local people's governments at all levels and relevant departments shall take measures to develop urban and rural community old-age services" and that "the state shall promote the construction of livable communities for the elderly". China's Mid - and Long-term Plan for Actively Responding to Population Aging, issued in 2019, calls for improving a multi-level elderly care service system that is based on home care, supported by communities, run by institutions, and combines medical care with elderly care. To build aged-friendly communities, first, improve the quality and level of services for the elderly, provide multi-level and inclusive community elderly care services, and increase the supply of service institutions that combine medical and recreational care, so as to make community elderly care facilities "within reach" of the elderly population. Second, to improve the living environment of the elderly, focusing on public sports facilities for the elderly, public transportation for the elderly, wheelchair accessibility, etc., to strengthen the construction of community public space for the elderly. We will strengthen the renovation of homes for aging, popularize smart sensor lights, bedside alarms, humanized handrails and other facilities to reduce the safety risks around the elderly. Third, we should promote interaction, tolerance and sharing among people of different ages and groups, enhance cultural integration and social recognition among different generations, and achieve community harmony.
We will strengthen humane care for medical, health and nursing care. Family and community are the best places to meet the life, interpersonal communication and emotional needs of the elderly. In providing services for the elderly, we should not only treat the elderly as objects of care, but also give them more humanistic care in such aspects as self-reliance, participation, care, self-enrichment and dignity. "Open" elderly care services are provided, including meals, bath aid, hairdressing, repair, community family medical care and hospice care, to meet the basic living and medical needs of the elderly at home. Regular visits are carried out to focus on the disabled and semi-disabled elderly and their carers in the community, providing necessary life care, professional care and psychological counseling. To carry out a variety of diversified cultural and sports activities, to meet the spiritual and cultural needs of the elderly at all levels, and to better realize the "old enjoy". Popularize scientific dietary knowledge and provide nutritional catering services. We will give full play to the traditional culture of respecting and caring for the elderly, and encourage more public welfare, charitable organizations and caring people to care for the elderly.
Promote the professional brand development of pension institutions. The service quality of pension institutions is directly related to the vital interests of the elderly and the social satisfaction with government supervision. To earnestly implement the "endowment institutions hierarchies and assessing endowment orderly national vocational skills standard and other documentation requirements, standardize the pension institution building, take strong effective measures, support pension service agencies to develop in the direction of specialization, branding, promote pension institution evolution and benign competition, promote pension services from quantity growth to quality improvement, To provide standardized, standardized quality services for the elderly.
We will accelerate the informationization and intellectualization of elderly care services. We will actively foster new forms and models of elderly care services, establish and improve a comprehensive information platform for community public services, accurately connect the needs and resources of elderly services, and facilitate service providers to provide targeted, personalized and professional services to the elderly. We will use the Internet, the Internet of Things, big data and smart devices to provide intelligent home-based community elderly care services. We will implement the technology assistance demonstration project for the elderly, support the application and promotion of new technologies such as emerging materials and artificial intelligence in the field of elderly care services, and support the research and development of products such as exoskeleton robots, care and rehabilitation robots, and virtual reality rehabilitation training equipment, so as to form a batch of intelligent and high-tech rehabilitation AIDS for the elderly. Enterprises will be encouraged to develop and produce smart wearable, portable monitoring and remote home monitoring equipment for the elderly, as well as daily necessities, food, health care products and clothing suitable for the elderly. We will launch a campaign to improve the quality of products for the elderly, and accelerate the building of smart and healthy communities for the elderly.
We will expand social participation of the elderly. "Mo Sang Yu late, xia is still all over the sky." Old age is an important stage of life in which one can still make achievements, make progress and enjoy happiness. It is necessary to combine doing for old age with providing for old age. We should actively create conditions for the elderly to play their role, and guide them to maintain a healthy attitude and enterprising spirit, so as to give full play to their positive energy and make new contributions. In real life, the elderly are active in science and technology, education, medical and health care, community service, agricultural production and other fields. They actively participate in economic and social development, reflecting their own value. It is necessary to adapt to the trend of social development and guide the transformation of elderly life from "passive and waiting" to "participatory and developmental". First, we will establish and improve policies for the elderly to find new jobs and start businesses, eliminate age discrimination and protect their rights and interests in employment. The second is to guide and organize the elderly to actively participate in community construction and management, and extensively carry out neighborhood mutual aid, mutual aid for the elderly and various volunteer activities. Third, the elderly should be encouraged to learn and accept new knowledge, new concepts and new skills, so as to enrich their spiritual and cultural life. More public welfare jobs should be set up for the elderly to play their spare time, so that the role of the elderly as social wealth can be fully brought into play.
