China's 190 million elderly with chronic diseases face the problem of longevity and unhealthy. The National Health Commission has opened a "good prescription"
2021-12-10
Population aging is an important trend of social development, an important embodiment of human civilization and progress, and China's basic national conditions for a long time in the future. China has entered an aging society since 1999. The scale of the elderly population is expanding and the degree of aging is deepening day by day. Recently, in view of the new situation and characteristics of China's population aging in the new era, the CPC Central Committee and the State Council issued the opinions on strengthening the aging work in the new era (hereinafter referred to as the opinions). Wang Jianjun, member of the Party group of the National Health Commission and executive deputy director of the national Aging office, said at a press conference held today by the Information Office of the State Council that the introduction of the opinions at this time aims to solve the "urgent and difficult expectations" of the elderly in terms of pension, health, spiritual and cultural life and social participation, and effectively enhance the sense of acquisition, happiness and security of the elderly. Let the elderly have a sense of security and establish a positive outlook on aging and the concept of healthy aging Wang Jianjun introduced that to establish a positive outlook on aging, we should not only fully understand the problems and challenges brought by population aging, but also deeply tap the potential of the aging society and stimulate the vitality of the aging society. We should treat population aging dialectically. "Healthy aging" refers to the comprehensive and systematic intervention of all factors affecting health from the perspective of the whole process of life and from the early stage of life, so as to create a social support and living environment conducive to the health of the elderly, so as to prolong the healthy life expectancy, maintain the health function of the elderly and improve the health level of the elderly. "Healthy aging is the most cost-effective means to deal with population aging, which not only reflects the general law of human society to deal with population aging, but also conforms to China's national conditions." He said. Wang Jianjun mentioned that healthy aging is not only an important part of the healthy China strategy, but also an important measure to implement the national strategy to actively respond to population aging. Next, the health and Health Commission and the national office on aging will work together to promote the construction of a healthy China and actively respond to the national strategy of population aging, improve the elderly health support system, continuously improve the health service and management level of the elderly, strengthen the long-term care service and guarantee for the disabled elderly, deeply promote the combination of medical care and nursing, and strive to improve the health level of the elderly. Strengthen the construction of elderly health support system in three aspects With the gradual increase of life expectancy, China is rapidly entering the era of longevity, but many elderly people have the problem of unhealthy longevity. About 190 million elderly people in China have chronic diseases and 40 million disabled elderly people. In this regard, Wang Haidong, director of the aging health department of the National Health Commission, said that the National Health Commission will strengthen the construction of the elderly health support system from three aspects: health service management for the elderly, long-term care services for the disabled elderly and the combination of medical care and maintenance. In terms of health services and management for the elderly, it mainly focuses on two links: prevention and health care for the elderly and convenient medical treatment. Wang Haidong mentioned that in the future, a series of elderly health knowledge publicity and education activities, basic public health services, elderly health management projects, home-based medical services for the elderly will be carried out, and special actions such as oral health for the elderly, psychological care for the elderly, nutritious diet for the elderly and Prevention and treatment of Alzheimer's disease will be carried out to improve the health literacy of the elderly, so that the elderly can get sick less and later No serious illness. At the same time, we will vigorously build the geriatrics department of general hospitals, rehabilitation hospitals and nursing homes, and carry out the construction of friendly medical institutions for the elderly. He said, "it is planned that by 2025, the proportion of geriatrics departments set up in level II and above general hospitals will reach 60%. At present, the construction of geriatrics departments has been included in the monitoring and evaluation scope of Health China action. Next, the National Health Commission will promote the implementation of this work and better provide high-quality health services for the elderly." Prevention and intervention actions continue in the care of disabled older persons. For the disabled elderly, provide long-term care services in the whole chain from home to community to institutions, and carry out elderly care needs assessment. We should vigorously promote the "Internet plus care service" and play the role of intelligent technology. Continue to promote the pilot of long-term care insurance system and strive to establish a long-term care insurance system in line with China's national conditions as soon as possible. In terms of the combination of medical care and elderly care, we will continue to promote the connection and integration of medical and health resources and elderly care service resources, and strengthen the agreement cooperation between medical and health institutions and elderly care service institutions. Increase service supply at the community level, focus on community home, and implement the action to improve the ability of community medical care integration. Encourage grass-roots units to explore pension beds and medical beds, and standardize the conversion mechanism according to the needs of the elderly. In areas rich in medical resources, we will promote the transformation of some secondary and lower medical institutions to carry out rehabilitation, nursing and medical care services, so as to provide high-quality health and elderly care services for the elderly. (outlook new era)
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