New Exploration Of Shanghai City Center Home Retirement Service

With the worldwide level of the general improvement in health care,population declining mortality, rising life expectancy in humans, theaging population problem is increasingly rapid. In China, the populationstructure has shifted from the young and elderly type fast since theeffective implementation of family planning policy in70s of last century.Under the social state of rapid population aging and the "becoming oldbefore getting rich", how to effectively solve the elderly pension hasbecome a national important problem. In order to effectively deal with thechallenges of an aging population, Shanghai has been exploringcommunity home retirement service model since2000. The so-calledhome retirement service, is based on family, community and professionalservices. It can provide social services to solve daily life problems withthe elderly living at home. Through the home retirement service model, we can transfer the part of pension function from family to social bysome pension service organization to ease the shortage of resources andalso to be consistent with the traditional pension. Now, the homeretirement service model has becoming more and more mature to play thepositive and effective role by means of exploration and development.Home retirement service is a model which has been impacted byliving environment and living conditions. In Shanghai, the largerproportion of old housing and the elderly in the old housing is gathered insome center districts. The problem that too many old houses and publicfacilities to repair brings about the results that people who living there areuncomfortable and houses are accelerated depreciation. So what’simportant to think about is to deepen and improve the home retirementservice model continually. View of the reality of "old house, old people ",this paper, as a starting point, considering the impact of home retirementservice and further development factors proposed the idea of constrictionsof home retirement service community (which) based on Jing An SiSub-district as an example for system analysis, drawing on Westerncountries on the basis of relevant experience for reference.