minister of civil affairs: provide home services such as meal and bathing assistance to elderly people living at home
2024-09-23
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cover news reporter dai rui
on september 23, the state council information office held a series of press conferences on "promoting high-quality development". minister of civil affairs lu zhiyuan said at the press conference that we should conform to the habits and wishes of the vast majority of elderly people to live at home, cultivate and build community elderly care service institutions, provide elderly people living at home with on-site services such as meal assistance, bathing assistance, cleaning assistance, walking assistance, medical assistance, and emergency assistance, and consolidate the basic position of home-based elderly care services.
minister of civil affairs lu zhiyuan. image source: state council information office
"actively responding to population aging is related to the overall development of the country and the well-being of hundreds of millions of people." lu zhiyuan said that in recent years, the ministry of civil affairs has conscientiously implemented the national strategy of actively responding to population aging, focused on the people's demand for elderly care services, accelerated the construction of the elderly care service system, and initially established my country's elderly care service system, promoting four changes in elderly care services: first, from serving the elderly with special difficulties to serving all the elderly; second, from government supply to government, market, and social multiple supply; third, from institutional care to home, community, and institutional coordination; fourth, from basic protection and life care to a higher quality combination of medical care, nursing care, and health care services.
lu zhiyuan said that population aging is a realistic problem that must be faced in china's modernization, which has both challenges and opportunities. in the next step, the ministry of civil affairs will earnestly implement the national strategy of actively responding to population aging in accordance with the decisions and arrangements of the party central committee, integrate the concept of active aging and healthy aging into the entire process of economic and social development, strengthen and improve aging work, and promote high-quality development of elderly care services.
he pointed out that in terms of work related to the elderly, the ministry of civil affairs will conscientiously perform the functions of comprehensive coordination, supervision and guidance, and organization and promotion of the national office on aging, strengthen the overall coordination of work related to the elderly, and form a joint force to cope with the aging of the population. improve the implementation mechanism of the national strategy for actively coping with the aging of the population, formulate and implement the development plan for the cause of the elderly, continuously improve the social security system, the elderly care service system, and the health support system, build an elderly-friendly society, strengthen the financial guarantee for "the elderly have a place to rely on", consolidate the service guarantee for "the elderly have a place to support", and improve the institutional guarantee for "the elderly have something to contribute". together with relevant departments, focus on the urgent and difficult problems of the elderly, and concentrate on doing some practical and good things that the elderly can feel and reach every year in terms of preferential policies, cultural and sports activities, legal services, volunteer services, science and technology to help the elderly, and financial benefits for the elderly.
