Research On The Elderly Long-term Care Needs Illustrated By The Case Of Beijing Xinbeiyuan Community Survey

Along with the increase of the aging population, the health problems of theelderly population has been a significant change, increasingly illness, disability, agingand loss of daily living of the elderly population spawns a huge demand for long-termcare. In order to deeply study the status of long-term care for the elderly, the authorinvestigated96elderly of the Xinbeiyuan Community, Tongzhou District, Beijing,and analyzed the care needs, nursing model, the home care, the community care. Thenwriter compared this survey with the major report of the2010China’s urban and ruralelderly population follow-up surveys to comprehend the reality of the elderlylong-term care needs. The survey shows that the elderly long-term care needs havebeen in continued growth, which is affected not only by somatic motility of theobjective factors, but also by the elderly psychological factors. Family care is themost important way of long-term care of the elderly, the most suitable long-term carein line with national conditions. However, it is insufficient to support the long-termcare needs of the elderly on the bases of the strength of personal and family. Seekingdiversification, social long-term care resources is imperative. Deduced strongly by thegovernment, the community care alleviates the urban elderly long-term care needs tosome extent. Because of the shortage of resources and lack of experience, a completesystem which includes rules, personnel, funds, service to support the elderlylong-term care has not been formed. It is necessary to put widely concerns and doongoing investment.According to the Xinbeiyuan investigation, the author came up with a series ofideas from macro to micro to promote the career development of elderly long-termcare for the community, for other regions. From the macro perspective, it is necessaryto comprehensively promote the construction of social security for the aged topromote the rapid development of long-term care. From the micro perspective, itshould be actively preparing the nursing resources, improving the long-term careservice system. In addition, we shall study the theory and policy of long-term care,carry out long-term care insurance pilots, and establish the government-led long-termcare security.Long-term care security is an integral part of the elderly security and the socialsecurity, and the construction of long-term care security is closely related to theoverall improvement of the elderly security and the social security. We should always hold the overall when construct the elderly long-term care security. Standing on theheight of the social security, we should gather all kinds of social resources, extractbeneficial experience from foreign countries, integrate China’s national conditions toguarantee economic development and social harmony, step by step to carry out theconstruction of long-term care security.