Three meals a day to warm the stomach and heart "My wife and I are both in our 80s this year, and cooking by ourselves is really inconvenient. Fortunately, there are many types of meals available, and they eat very well." Once, Huang Xianzhang and his wife, who lived in Huayue Street Community, Dongsheng Street, Shuangliu District, Chengdu City, Sichuan Province, were worried every day about how to eat hot rice. Since the opening and operation of "Huayue Restaurant", the elderly couple have been dining every day. It is understood that "Huayue Food Workshop" is one of the "Community Partner" projects implemented by Huayue Street Community. The community has partnered with local restaurants to open a 500 square meter dining area, providing nutritious and delicious meals for elderly people in the surrounding area for only 15 yuan per person per meal. The relevant person in charge of Chengdu Civil Affairs Bureau told reporters that in recent years, Chengdu has actively explored new paths to expand and improve the quality of elderly meal assistance facilities around the goal of building a "15 minute" elderly care service circle, so that the elderly can both warm their stomachs and hearts. For example, Qingyang District has built nearly 1000 senior dining tables, providing dining services for nearly 1500 people per day; Wuhou District builds the 'Changshou Restaurant' brand in communities, achieving full coverage in 72 communities; Wenjiang District relies on the community elderly care service complex and collaborates with property management companies to deliver meals to elderly people in need, bridging the 'last mile' of elderly meal assistance services The relevant person in charge of Chengdu Civil Affairs Bureau said. Providing high-quality and convenient elderly meal assistance services cannot be achieved without the active participation of social catering enterprises. How to ensure that these enterprises achieve sustainable development while providing inclusive meals? The government's' blood transfusion 'is essential The relevant person in charge of Chengdu Civil Affairs Bureau introduced that, for example, Pengzhou City provides a one-time construction subsidy of 10000 to 200000 yuan based on the scale of elderly meal assistance service facilities; Dayi County provides a one-time construction subsidy of no more than 50000 yuan for elderly meal assistance service facilities... "At the same time, we also help various types of elderly meal assistance service facilities to operate in a market-oriented and professional manner through various means," the person in charge said. Not only in Chengdu, but also with the active construction of elderly meal assistance service facilities by various regions and departments, more and more elderly people are enjoying "happiness on the tip of their tongue" at their doorstep. In Shandong, Qingdao has adopted a development model for elderly meal assistance services that is tailored to local conditions, including market-oriented operation, village collective leadership, and multi-party resource support. Especially in terms of market-oriented operation, encourage the internal canteens of elderly care institutions to provide services to the elderly in society, and cultivate and strengthen demonstration enterprises for elderly meal assistance through methods such as "community canteen+meal assistance", "catering enterprise+meal assistance", and "property enterprise+meal assistance". Among the 1394 catering establishments in the city, 1161 have adopted market-oriented operations. Since the beginning of this year, relevant institutions in the city have served 16 million elderly people for meals, and the total amount of elderly meal assistance orders has reached 137 million yuan. In Jiangxi, elderly meal assistance service facilities can be coordinated and shared with community comprehensive service facilities, convenient commercial service facilities, and lifestyle service facilities. They can also be used to provide elderly meal assistance services by adjusting, leasing, transferring, and other means to idle properties of government agencies and institutions. At the same time, in addition to providing appropriate support for elderly dining subsidies from provincial finance, the Provincial Department of Civil Affairs also actively attracts social welfare and charity forces such as caring enterprises and public welfare organizations to participate, and improves diversified operation and fundraising mechanisms. Experts say that building a "15 minute" elderly care service circle is a systematic project that requires diverse participation. Taking elderly meal assistance services as an example, the government and relevant functional departments should continuously increase policy support while encouraging and guiding more social forces to participate, fully leveraging the role of market resource allocation, and organically combining the public welfare attributes of elderly meal assistance services with market mechanisms, so that elderly meal assistance services can blossom and bear fruit in various places. In recent years, Yichang City in Hubei Province has focused on building a "15 minute" elderly care service circle and further improving the community home-based elderly care service network. The Civil Affairs Bureau of Yichang City has formulated four community home care service standards, including the "Construction and Management Standards for Community Home Care Service Centers" and the "Information Management Requirements for Home and Community Care Services", which have promoted the standardized development of community home care services. In 2022, Yichang Chengfa Group went deep into Taohualing Community and, after extensive consultation with residents, decided to build a "Yilin Post Station" on the idle land in Taohualing Community. In November 2023, the first "Yilin Post Station" in Taohualing Community will open, which includes service functions such as a happy canteen and a cultural exhibition area, as well as service equipment such as express delivery terminals and 24-hour vending machines. Huang Huarong, Secretary of the Party Committee of Taohualing Community, told reporters that in addition to various convenient service facilities that facilitate the daily lives of the elderly, the community also actively pays attention to the spiritual and cultural needs of the elderly. Not only has 800 square meters of idle space been obtained to build a theater, but a senior school has also been established. Many elderly people in the community say that life is more interesting! "Said Huang Huarong. Zhang Yonglin, the person in charge of Yichang Municipal Civil Affairs Bureau, said that in order to improve the quality of community home-based elderly care, the Municipal Civil Affairs Bureau took multiple measures to increase the supply of community home-based elderly care services, guide community home-based elderly care services to implement a socialized operation model, encourage third-party professional institutions to build or undertake operations, deepen cooperation with medical institutions, Internet enterprises and other market entities to promote the development of community home-based elderly care services, and plan to achieve full coverage of community home-based elderly care services in Yichang central urban areas by 2025. Currently, various regions and departments are actively increasing the supply of basic elderly care services, relying on community development to diversify elderly care services, and better building a "15 minute" elderly care service circle. At No. 40 Fuxing Road, Yongding Road Street, Haidian District, Beijing, various elderly care service stations are readily available. The canteens, vegetable and fruit stations, side food shops, and convenience stations within the community, as well as the elderly care service stations, markets, and large supermarkets outside the community, not only meet the basic daily needs of the elderly, but also provide various convenient services such as family elderly care beds, medical treatment, shopping, etc., becoming the first pilot community for the construction of a "elderly care service ecosystem" in Yongding Road Street. Walking into the elderly care service station in Jinyuan Community, Guiyang City, Guizhou Province, the reporter saw that the station has reading rooms, rehabilitation rooms, therapy rooms, etc., and provides services such as bathing, cleaning, and daycare. Yuan Qin, Secretary of the Party General Branch and Director of the Neighborhood Committee of Jinyuan Community, told reporters that there are currently 2316 elderly people over 60 years old in the community, accounting for 21.82% of the population in the jurisdiction. To meet the needs of the elderly population, the community coordination and co construction unit Jinyuan Group has created a 300 square meter elderly care service station. The service station is supported by funding from the civil affairs department for renovation, operated by elderly care service companies, and the content of elderly care services can be adjusted at any time according to the needs of the elderly. The government has good policies, and various enterprises are actively responding. More and more elderly people are enjoying their lives, "Yuan Qin said. The State Council's "14th Five Year Plan for the Development of National Aging Industry and Elderly Care Service System" issued by the State Council clearly proposes to build a smart society that takes into account the needs of the elderly. Experts say that introducing various digital forces and intelligent means in the process of building a "fifteen hour" elderly care service circle can help elderly people enjoy the safety and convenience of smart life. The reporter learned from the Qingdao Municipal Civil Affairs Bureau of Shandong Province that up to now, there are 2.15 million elderly people over 60 years old with registered residence in Qingdao, with an aging rate of 25.2%. To this end, Qingdao actively builds a "fifteen hour" elderly care service circle, strengthens digital empowerment and efficiency improvement, and explores new paths for the development of elderly care services. Arriving at Shangliu Jiayuan Community in Shiyuan Street, Licang District, Qingdao City, on the large screen of the Party and Mass Service Center, you can see that the community governance channel has embedded 6 categories and 52 convenient service items, covering social assistance, livelihood services, employment training, public opinion surveys, TV ordering and shopping, remote consultations, and other aspects. Zang Wenjuan, Secretary of the Party Branch and Director of the Neighborhood Committee of Shangliu Jiayuan Community, introduced that in recent years, the integration of a large number of intelligent elements has effectively enhanced the sense of gain, happiness, and security of elderly people in the community. For example, thanks to the smart elderly care community system equipped in the community, once an elderly person falls or falls in the public space of the community is detected, the system will automatically identify and trigger an alarm mechanism. For elderly people living alone, the community is also equipped with resident intelligent perception modules to ensure timely detection and rapid response to any problems. Not only that. Given the large number and rapid growth of elderly people in the community, as well as the obvious trend of empty nest, the community has also repurchased a residential building and built a health and wellness center. The center has nearly a hundred beds and cooperates with community health service stations to facilitate doctors and nurses' on-site services. The center also introduces a professional elderly care team, allowing the elderly to enjoy comprehensive integrated services such as rehabilitation, intelligent elderly assistance, and cultural life. At present, the '15 minute' elderly care service circle in the community has covered facilities such as elderly canteens, senior universities, convenience service centers, community health service centers, and community cultural activity centers. We will also rely on building community smart terminals, combined with the living needs of elderly people in the community, to deeply promote the construction of elderly friendly communities Zang Wenjuan said. In the future, the Municipal Civil Affairs Bureau will follow the development trend of the digital age, comprehensively improve and perfect the integrated government service system covering various fields of elderly care services, and form a smart elderly care service 'Qingdao sample' with precise element guarantee, convenient service acquisition, and intelligent comprehensive supervision. Promote the digital transformation, intelligent improvement, precision and efficiency of the elderly care service industry, achieve precise demand acquisition, precise fund distribution, and precise and reasonable decision-making, effectively promote the high-quality development of the elderly care service industry, cultivate and form new economic growth points, and effectively connect and complement the improvement of people's livelihoods and economic development The relevant person in charge of Qingdao Civil Affairs Bureau said. With the empowerment of digital intelligence, the path to happiness for the elderly is becoming wider and wider. In Lanzhou City, Gansu Province, the virtual nursing home in Chengguan District relies on network information technology to integrate and coordinate the data of elderly related resources across the entire area, centrally carry out elderly care service scheduling, and provide personalized private customized services to the elderly from the network "cloud". At present, it has absorbed 126 franchise service enterprises of various types, with a total service volume of 16.0335 million people and a service subsidy expenditure of 182 million yuan. In Nanhai District, Foshan City, Guangdong Province, a district level intelligent elderly care service platform is being developed. With an efficient intelligent elderly care command center, it matches more than 400 elderly care service institutions and service providers, providing 144 services in 10 categories for the elderly. Next, we will strengthen the construction of home and community elderly care service networks, guide localities to create a number of demonstration home and community elderly care service networks at the county and district levels with clear levels, institutional connections, complementary functions, and regional linkage, achieve full coverage of home and community elderly care service capabilities for the elderly in our jurisdiction, build a 'fifteen minute' elderly care service circle, and improve service accuracy, convenience, and accessibility The relevant person in charge of the Elderly Care Service Department of the Ministry of Civil Affairs said. (New Society)