Tailored elderly meal assistance services
2024-04-10
The General Office of the State Council issued the "Opinions on Developing the Silver Hair Economy and Enhancing the Welfare of the Elderly" in January, emphasizing the expansion of elderly meal assistance services. Food is the top priority for the people, and many elderly people have a wide demand for meal assistance services. How to carry out community meal assistance services well, so that the elderly can share the fruits of development and enjoy a happy old age, this reporter conducted an interview. Introducing cooperative enterprises and professionalizing elderly meal assistance. At noon, in the Happiness Cafeteria of Jiuquhe Community, Shuinan Street, Zhanggong District, Ganzhou City, Jiangxi Province, the food is fragrant, and more than 10 various dishes are served in insulated compartments, steaming hot. Huang Lanfang, the store manager, warmly said, "Aunt, what would you like to eat today?" "Have an eggplant with Rice noodles meat." Li Manmei, a 90 year old community resident, is a frequent customer of the canteen. "Three meals a day" is a "key small matter" that affects the quality of life of elderly people. To promote the healthy development of elderly meal assistance services, Zhanggong District is exploring the construction of a community happiness cafeteria project, emphasizing the participation of social forces and enhancing the "happiness on the tip of the tongue" of the elderly. "At present, our cafeteria provides more than 30 types of dishes, with prices determined by meat and vegetables. There are different levels of prices, with the cheapest vegetables costing only 3 yuan and the highest meat dishes costing only 15 yuan. In addition, we offer a variety of side dishes for the elderly to taste for free." Huang Lanfang said, considering the taste of the elderly, the cafeteria prepares more light dishes with less oil and salt. Currently, there are over 200 elderly people dining in the cafeteria. The Happiness Cafeteria in Shuinan Street not only has a dining area for the elderly, but also has an elderly activity center with added entertainment facilities such as book racks, chess and card tables, and book corners. "The biggest feature here is' government guidance, government enterprise cooperation, and professional operation '." Zhu Xueyan, Deputy Director of Shuinan Street Office, said, "We use a market operation model, where the government provides free venues and introduces third-party well-known catering enterprises to cooperate, achieving specialized operation of elderly meal assistance and more sustainable development." "Social forces are an important force in participating in the development of elderly meal assistance services." Zou Huayun, Deputy Director of the Civil Affairs Bureau of Zhanggong District, introduced that currently, social forces in the jurisdiction have a high willingness to participate in elderly meal assistance. There are 33 community type happy canteens in the district, including 9 directly operated by the government and 3 indirectly operated, and 21 community happy canteens operated by social forces. ". The average daily service for the elderly in the entire region is 9600 people. At the same time, the star rating evaluation of community happy canteens will be implemented, and the annual star rating of community canteens will be determined based on indicators such as public satisfaction, service volume, and number of services, and a certain operating subsidy will be given to promote enterprises to continuously improve their service level. In March of this year, the Department of Civil Affairs of Jiangxi Province and 11 other departments jointly issued the "Implementation Plan for Accelerating the Development of Elderly Meal Assistance Services", which requires focusing on the actual difficulties of elderly people's dining, adhering to government coordination, fully leveraging the role of market mechanisms, and actively building an elderly meal assistance service network that covers urban and rural areas, has a reasonable layout, diverse participation, and co construction and sharing. By the end of this year, 308 new urban meal aid points will be added within Jiangxi Province, targeting rural areas
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Source：people.cn
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