Exploratory Research on Models of Operating Elderly Care Facilities by Community Health Institutions from Integrated Medical and Elderly Care Perspective: a Case Study of Yinling Elderly Nursing Home Held by Beijing Xicheng District Yuetan Community Health Center

Abstract

The need for elder care has become more pressing as population aging is accelerating in China. The General Office of the State Council of the People's Republic of China has promulgated a number of opinions between 2013 and 2021 aiming at promoting the implementation of integrated medical and elderly care services, enhancing the quality of geriatric services, and strengthening aging services in the new era. And then primary care institutions and elderly care facilities have put the issue on the critical agenda, namely how to take actions to divide labor and cooperate to ensure the elderly to get security and support. This paper discusses the importance and necessity of the model of elderly care institutions operated by community health institutions, and analyzes its benefits and drawbacks from five dimensions: service providers, service scope, service forms, service receivers, and operational effects, with the expectation of gradually implementing the actions to improve the national level of integrated medical and elderly care, to develop a high-quality community-based integrated medical and elderly care model, and to promote the concept of healthy aging.

Keywords

• community health centers|combination of medical and health-care services|elderly care model|aging|medical resources|elderly care demand|service model