中国城市居家养老模式探析

进入新世纪以来,我国老龄化问题日趋严峻,也已成为经济发展、社会进步、构建和谐社会过程中不得不解决的问题。应运而生的居家养老已成为学界、社会和百姓的关注热点,并正在成为解决养老问题的重要途径。当前,由于资金缺口大、且资金来源单一,服务设施不完善,专业人才短缺、没有完善的评估机制以及传统家庭养老的影响等问题,已经阻碍居家养老模式的运行。政府部门应该加大宣传力度,促进传统养老观念转变;加大政策支持力度,解决资金来源,引进专业人才,提高待遇水平,增强服务人员的能力;将服务对象分类管理,做到服务项目多样化、个性化。通过充分动员社会一切可利用资源,推动我国居家养老事业的可持续发展。

Home-Based Care Model for the Aged in Chinese Cities

The new century sees the increasingly serious aging problems in China,which have to be solved in the process of economic development,social progress,and building a harmonious society.Emerging in this circumstance,a home-based care model for the aged has become a focus of researchers,the whole society and ordinary people,and has been an important approach to solve the problems.The operation of the model now has many difficulties in terms of large financing gap,single capital source,incomplete service facility,insufficient professional talents,unsound assessment mechanism and the influence of tradition of family-supported care for the aged.The government should intensify the popularization effort,accelerating the transform of traditional care concept for old people;increase policy support for funding,introducing talents,and improving the wages and benefits and capability of the service staff;and classify service objects to achieve individualized and diversified service management by taking advantage of all available resources in an effort to push forward a sustainable development of the home-based care model.