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solving the problem of elderly care for the "old and elderly" is an important part of beijing's sound support service system for high-quality population development. as beijing's aging population deepens, beijing will build 100 street and township regional elderly care service centers this year. a few days ago, a beijing business daily reporter visited the upgraded regional elderly care service center. here, the elderly can enjoy services such as meal assistance, bathing assistance, and bedside care. for the "old and elderly", the rigid demand for elderly care is mainly concentrated in bedside care, dining, and medical treatment. among them, in order to solve the most widely demanded dining problem, beijing has established a central kitchen meal assistance model, which allows the elderly to eat hot meals at their doorstep through centralized meal distribution.

elderly care service center upgrade services

in the lai guangying township elderly care service center in chaoyang district, the elderly are participating in the weekly colored pencil painting activity. according to reports, the lai guangying township elderly care service center in chaoyang district has five core functional areas, including a community restaurant, a senior school, a nursing service area, a medical and nursing service area, and a comprehensive service area. among them, the senior school service, which is carried out at different times of the day, has designed a variety of courses for the elderly to enrich the daily lives of the surrounding elderly.

it is understood that the lai guangying township elderly care service center in chaoyang district is a microcosm of the regional elderly care service center upgraded from the original elderly care center. in order to meet the elderly care needs of the "old and elderly", beijing will build 100 street and township regional elderly care service centers in 2024. taking the lai guangying township elderly care service center in chaoyang district as an example, the center can provide meal assistance, bathing assistance, bedside care, medical assistance, cleaning assistance, inspection visits, spiritual comfort, and aging-friendly renovation services, with a monthly service volume of 15,400 people.

wang xiaobing, deputy director of the elderly care services department of the beijing municipal civil affairs bureau, said in an interview with a beijing business daily reporter that by the end of 2023, there will be 4.948 million permanent elderly people in beijing, accounting for 22.6%. among the elderly population, the elderly and disabled elderly are the most rigid demand for elderly care services. data shows that there are currently 855,000 elderly and disabled elderly people in beijing. among them, about 40,000 people live in nursing homes, and 815,000 people choose to live at home. their needs are mainly concentrated in bedside care, dining, and medical treatment.

central kitchen breaks the bottleneck of elderly care and meal assistance

care, dining, medical treatment... among the various concentrated needs of the "elderly", dining is one of the most widely covered needs. how can the elderly eat tasty and affordable meals at their doorstep? establishing a central kitchen to distribute meals to the community is the solution.

taking the xisanqi street elderly care meal assistance central kitchen as an example, the project has built a "1+28+n" multi-level community elderly care meal assistance service system of "central kitchen + community meal assistance service outlets + meal distribution/meal delivery to homes". at present, the central kitchen can provide more than 12 kinds of food to each community meal assistance outlet every day. taking the data in june this year as an example, the central kitchen has accumulated service income of more than 250,000 yuan, and has provided services to 10,968 people, about 4,100 people. at present, the overall sales of the central kitchen are relatively stable, and the income and expenditure are basically in a balanced state.

hao yuanyuan, head of the xisanqi street central kitchen service platform for elderly dining, told beijing business daily that the central kitchen model is highly replicable and accurate. the meals provided by the central kitchen not only fit the light taste of the elderly, but also offer preferential activities to the elderly, so that they can eat well.

it is reported that the central kitchen for elderly care meals in xisanqi street has covered 28 communities and set up 21 meal assistance points. these meal assistance points are generally located in elderly care service stations, neighborhood committees, and idle sites in the community. they not only activate existing resources, but also connect elderly care service centers and elderly care service stations to facilitate the surrounding elderly.

wang xiaobing said that in order to solve the problem of inconvenience in eating for the elderly, in recent years, beijing has developed more than 2,100 dining points of various types for the elderly by expanding the supply of meals in nursing homes, encouraging social catering companies to participate, and opening internal canteens of enterprises and institutions, covering 3/4 of the city's urban and rural communities.

beijing business daily reporter zhao boyu