On Thelogics Of Main Agents Involving The Home-based Elderly-Caring Service Purchased By The Government

Under the direction of system theory that centers on actors, This article takes the system of the home-based elderly-caring service purchased by the government as the object of study, instancing Y district in M city to analyze deeply the construction and practice of this system, and to illuminate the motivations and strategies of the participational action as well as the contradiction, conflict, trust, cooperation and so on,of various main agents in this process.We reveal the action logic of each participational agentand their constructive and resolutive functions upon the system, representing the complexity and intrinsic link among several factors that work in the process of the system’s construction and operation.. On the basis of above all, we rethink the deficiency of this system text, and tsuggest the further countermeasures that could improve the system. This research attempts to achieve the following goals.First, to interpret the logics of multiple agents who participate in the construction and operation of this system, and to explore the intrinsic connections among these diverse logics; Second, to explain the influences that the participational agents’actions and strategies exert on the operation of this system, then find out the questions and insufficiency in the system’s work.. Third, to put forward further the policy alternatives which can ameliorate the conducts by which the government purchases the service of home-based on for the aged.The dissertation discovers four kinds of logic:pursuing "the base line safety" and "institutional innavation" is welfare administration’s action logic, the private non-enterprise organizations’are to manifest justice and gain"win-win",while service transporters are in pursue of personal and family survival and development,,’and service clients put emphasis on gratefulness and self-control.It is the features of welfare service such as "freeness","privateness","multi-agent relationship" that restrict and affect the participational agents’ actions and their choice of strategies. The power and interests of the "two-way dependency" is the key factor that constrains and impacts the actions and strategical choices of the participators.In this aspect the culture of elderly-caring and patriarchal clan has its own significance.We demonstrates that the system of the service of home-based care for the aged purchased by the government supports fairly effectively the urban vulnerable elderly, alleviates the pressure of family care that should be afforded by the family members, improves the efficiency of public services, wins the affirmation and support from all walks of life.. However, there are various problems in the system yet:some people regard the high efficiency of the system as low costs, the private non-enterprise organization’s service as efficient service, free service as the services with right of exemption; the competitive situation that several private non-enterprise organizations co-participate in service delivery has not been formed as yet; the service level is relatively low; there still exists "malposition" problem in the services of supply and demand; and the selection of service qualification cannot be effectively carried out and so on.Therefore, this paper finally proposes that we should quest for further the modes of the cooperation between non-government organizations and governmental ones, improve the policy to support system sustainablly, upgrade the moral level of institutional service; promote the normalization and standardization of the system with empowerment to supply and requisition parties...