Jiangsu: High-quality Elderly Care Services, Support Happiness "Sunset Red"

The old have a happy old age, the others have a future. The report to the Party's 20th National Congress stressed the need to "implement the national strategy of actively responding to the aging population." As one of the provinces that entered the aging society early and with a high degree of aging, Jiangsu actively responds to the aging population, focuses on the needs of the elderly, strives to build a pension service system that coordinates home community institutions and integrates medical care and nursing care, and strives to build a "Suji pension" service brand with "high quality supply, high level of universal benefit and high quality for the elderly".

Stepping into a new journey, facing the surging "silver wave", how will Jiangsu innovate the mode of elderly care service and cope with the new challenges of elderly care service?

Li Yinjiang, the 20th representative of the CPC, Secretary of the Party Branch of the Elderly Care of Guiwu Town in Xuyi County and president of the Nursing Home for the Elderly:

The nursing home to do a "home" taste

"Great changes have taken place in our township nursing homes over the past decade." Li Yinjiang told the reporter that the annual funding for the elderly in the local Wubao has increased from more than 4,000 yuan in the past to 12,000 yuan. The houses have been transformed from mud tile houses into flat tile houses that are cold proof and warm. There are air conditioners and Simons in the house. "The old people say it smells like home!" Li Yinjiang seized every opportunity to improve the living environment for the elderly, and created a famous garden-style township nursing home for the elderly, so that the elderly can enjoy the fruits of social development.

With the popularization of the "open-door" mode in rural nursing homes, the high-quality services of Guiwuzhen nursing homes also radiate to the rural empty-nesters. Li Yinjiang said that as a representative of the Party's 20 National Congress, in the future, he will continue to expand the service function of the nursing home, the rural nursing home into a demonstration of modern old-age service positions, "GUI Wuzhen Jing nursing home is the Party and the government run nursing home, to let the Party flag flying high in the nursing home, so that more elderly people live a secure life, So that nearby villagers can also enjoy our professional services."

Luo Ting, Party Secretary and Director of Neighborhood Committee of Gulou Garden Community, Pailou Street, Gulou District, Xuzhou:

Explore the way for the "community + elderly care" service model

There are 5 old residential areas in Gulou Garden Community, Pailou Street, Gulou District, Xuzhou, where Luo Ting works. Among them, there are 748 old people over 60 years old and 98 old people over 80 years old.

A few years ago, there was no single community home care service position in the community, and an activity room often had multiple uses. Rehabilitation facilities and activity equipment were not complete, and the community staff also served as home care service staff.

In order to solve the problem of community elderly care, the Gulou District Committee and the district government of Xuzhou have explored the development mode of "community + elderly care", which is based on home care, supported by community, supplemented by institutions and combined with medical care. More and more elderly people have enjoyed convenient community home care services.

"By the end of 2020, the Gulou Garden Community Home Care Service Center will be completed, covering an area of 200 square meters, with six functional rooms, including activity rooms for the elderly and reading rooms for books. The government buys services, and professional nursing institutions provide community services for the elderly." Luo Ting told reporters.

Today, the needs of the elderly present multi-level and diversified characteristics. The 20 th National Congress of the Communist Party of China put forward higher requirements for community endowment service in the new period. Luo Ting said that the community will cooperate with functional departments to focus on the "urgent difficulties and worries" of the elderly, improve the quality of auxiliary meals, meet the needs of the elderly's social and entertainment needs, play the role of family nursing beds, optimize the modification options for the aging of the family, and make home care more convenient and safer for the elderly.

Chen Yingge, Deputy Director of Wuxi Civil Affairs Bureau:

Create a more warm "tin heart pension" city brand

It is reported that the registered elderly population of Wuxi has reached 1.363 million, which has entered the "deep aging" society. Wuxi has thoroughly implemented the national strategy of actively responding to the aging population, focusing on the "urgent difficulties and worries" of the elderly, and striving to create a coordinated development model of "old people living in the old", "community care for the elderly" and "institutional care for the elderly".

"By the end of last year, there were 168 nursing institutions, more than 1,100 home-based nursing service institutions and more than 67,000 nursing service beds in the city. There were 108 day care centers for the elderly, and all urban and rural community institutions for the elderly covered the country. The number of old people receiving home-based care assistance in the city accounted for more than 17%; More than 6,400 poor elderly families were retrofitted for aging, overfulfilling provincial and municipal projects." "Said Chen Yingge.

In promoting reform, Wuxi focused on the bottleneck problems of "difficulty in eating" and "difficulty in seeking medical treatment" for the elderly, and carried out the "Tin Heart Plus" food assistance action to benefit the elderly. Within the year, 15 regional food assistance centers were built, upgraded and rebuilt, realizing the "full coverage" of food assistance centers, and the number of nursing beds in the city's pension institutions accounted for more than 65%.

Wuxi has been selected into the national intelligent society governance experimental characteristics (elderly care) base list, is the only district city in the province selected. With the integration of elderly care services in the Yangtze River Delta, Wuxi has also built the first cross-provincial and county-level demonstration benchmarking area for happy elderly care in China.

Chen Yingge said that in the next step, Wuxi will deeply study and implement the Party's 20 spirit, fully practice the people-centered development thought, focus on the new expectations of the elderly group in the new era, explore new models such as "property + pension", build a "digital mall" for the elderly service, and build a more warm city brand of "Xixin pension" with practical actions.

Chen Hui, nursing assistant of Jiangsu Elderly Apartment:

Give full play to professional power to protect a happy old age

Chen Huigang graduated from nursing school in 2015 and became a young nurse in a provincial apartment for the elderly with curiosity about the profession.

The provincial apartment for the elderly has 340 elderly people and is a provincial demonstration institution for the elderly. In recent years, Chen Hui has witnessed the development process of Jiangsu pension industry from "excellent" to "excellent", and also felt the increasing attention of the Party committee and government to the construction of pension nursing professionals. Together with eight nurses of the same age, Chen Hui takes care of 30 mentally disabled elderly people.

"Every morning more than 5 o 'clock, we began to busy, for the elderly to change diapers, dressing, washing, feeding, cleaning, rehabilitation training, activities and so on." Chen Hui said, nursing the elderly, not only to do life care, but also to pay attention to their mental health. Since the outbreak of the epidemic, nursing homes have often been closed, but this team of professional nurses help each other and help themselves, which has not only become the backbone of the apartment, but also become a solid support for the elderly.

"As the foundation to support the elderly care service industry, the elderly care service talents shoulder the important mission of protecting the most beautiful 'sunset red'. I will earnestly study and grasp the Party's twenty great spirit, down-to-earth to do every ordinary thing well." Chen Hui said that we should let the elderly in the hospital feel the warmth of home, and contribute our own strength to build the service brand of "Su Shi Elderly Care" with Jiangsu characteristics.