Nearly 300 million elderly people! China's' elderly care 'is accelerating towards' enjoying old age'
2024-07-16
The population aged 60 and above in China is nearly 300 million. Enabling all elderly people to have a happy and fulfilling old age is both a family matter and a national affair. The latest release of the "Blue Book on the Development of Healthy Aging in China (2023-2024)" advocates for a "positive aging view and healthy aging" in response to the new trends and challenges in the elderly care industry under the new situation. It explores new concepts, measures, and images of Chinese style elderly care from various aspects such as elderly care service models, digital elderly care, and silver economy, in order to better meet the rapidly growing demand for elderly care. ——New concept: Weaving a happy "web" of elderly care services. How fast is the aging population developing? Experts predict that the elderly population will exceed 400 million around 2035 and reach approximately 500 million by the middle of this century. Every family has an elderly person, and everyone will grow old Han Qide, academician of the CAS Member, said that the connotation of healthy aging is a dynamic development. It is an organic integration of the strategy of "actively responding to population aging" and the strategy of "healthy China". It involves the vital interests of hundreds of millions of people. It is a major livelihood project and a contemporary issue that must be faced. This is a practical need to achieve the aspirations of the elderly for a better life, and also a new driving force for high-quality economic and social development. The Blue Book proposes to establish a new concept of "positive aging view and healthy aging", which takes into account the optimization of life view and new connotations of elderly health, while also considering "serving the elderly" and "preparing for the elderly", and has strong foresight for Chinese style elderly care. How to establish the concept of "positive aging concept and healthy aging"? Solving the urgent and difficult health concerns of the elderly is the starting point and foothold. Zhu Hongbiao, Vice President and Secretary General of the Chinese Society of Health Economics, said that we will accelerate the weaving of a happy "network" of elderly care services, allowing the elderly to embrace new lives with wisdom, experience, and labor, increase social vitality, creativity, and affinity, and reap more health dividends for the elderly population. How to further improve the system for healthy aging development? Experts suggest grasping from three dimensions: first, the social security system to solve the problem of where pension funds come from; The second is the elderly care service system, which solves problems such as who provides elderly care services and what kind of elderly care services are provided; The third is the health support system, which solves the problems of providing medical care, elderly health care, and the integration of medical and elderly care. ——New measure: Assist in building a support and guarantee system. 9073 "- This is the basic composition of China's elderly care model, which includes about 90% home-based elderly care, 7% community-based elderly care, and 3% institutional elderly care. Taking care of the daily needs of home and community elderly care is of utmost importance. Provide aging friendly home renovation, build smart family elderly care beds, develop elderly activity centers, develop elderly canteens... The Blue Book suggests that elderly people can enjoy convenient elderly care services at their doorstep. According to data, by the end of 2023, China has completed nearly 1.5 million households of elderly people living in difficult circumstances to adapt to aging, built a total of 235000 family elderly care beds, and gradually established a comprehensive elderly care service system. Some places are exploring: Beijing is accelerating the construction of a three in one elderly health service model of "prevention, treatment, and care", Jiangsu Province is focusing on a new model of sports intervention for chronic disease elderly in integrated communities of sports, medicine, and elderly care, and Heilongjiang Province is creating a development plan for traditional Chinese medicine health care... - New picture: meeting new demands for elderly care services. On one hand, elderly people are living longer lives, and on the other hand, there is a growing demand for care and long-term care due to the coexistence of multiple illnesses. Elderly people of different age groups have different demands, and the difficulties faced by disadvantaged elderly people are also different Fan Li, the president of the Chinese Geriatric Society, suggested that we should face the problems directly, make up for our shortcomings in development, and cultivate new economic growth points while addressing the expectations of the elderly population. Cultivate new forms of silver economy. The Elderly Health Economics Professional Committee of the Chinese Society of Health Economics, in conjunction with the "Healthy China Theory and Empirical Research" research group at Peking University, stated that in the face of the diverse, differentiated, and personalized needs of the elderly, it is urgent to explore new forms of diversified elderly care. According to relevant calculations, the scale of China's silver economy is currently around 7 trillion yuan, and it is expected to reach around 30 trillion yuan by 2035. Promote 'smart elderly care'. In response to the changes in the era of artificial intelligence, innovation is also necessary for elderly care. The Blue Book proposes that special attention should be paid to addressing the issue of elderly care products and services being "unsuitable for the elderly". Black technology should care for elderly products, making 'serving the elderly' more 'technological' and more convenient to use, "said Fan Li. Establish a sound rural elderly care service network. At present, rural elderly care in China is facing some "hurdles". Professor Wang Hongman from Peking University suggests weaving a happiness "network" covering the three levels of counties and villages for elderly people in rural areas, fully leveraging the characteristics of mutual assistance and reciprocity among acquaintances in rural areas, and striving to enable elderly people to enjoy hot meals and minor illnesses without leaving the village or hometown. Elderly care is a systematic project, and the Chinese approach is to mobilize the power of every social cell, solve major problems with minimal investment, and vigorously promote the construction of an elderly friendly society Han Qide said that guarding today's' sunset red 'is also treating our tomorrow kindly. (New Society)
Edit：He Chuanning Responsible editor：Su Suiyue
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