Health services extend to families

We will strengthen the connection with long-term care, old-age care and other forms of service, and improve the ability of community-level disease prevention and treatment and health management

A few years ago, Uncle Liu, who lives in Lijiatuo Street, Banan District, Chongqing, was found to have chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, and was paralyzed in bed after an accident. Mr. Wang, the family member, applied for a family pension bed for the elderly, and after a door-to-door assessment, the staff moved smart devices such as bracelets and visual intercom into Uncle Liu's home.

"Considering that the elderly man has chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and is bedridden for a long time, we also applied for home bed service for him." Kong Yifei, the person in charge of Lijiatuo Community elderly care Service Center, told reporters that the central care workers provide basic personal care such as turning, scrubbing, feeding and massage, and the medical staff of the community health service center regularly come to the house, responsible for the operation of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease care and household portable oxygen machine and other medical equipment, multi-linkage to provide better care for the elderly.

Move the "bed" into the home, not just the family bed. Family beds are connected with long-term care, old-age care and other service forms, which can provide continuous medical and nursing services for residents. The relevant person in charge of the Banan District Civil Affairs Bureau introduced that the future will strengthen the integration of medical care, further strengthen the exploration of the organic integration of elderly care beds and family beds, and realize the interoperability of mechanisms, mutual recognition of standards, and resource sharing.

The reporter's interview found that Zhejiang, Guangdong and other places are also actively exploring, encouraging the combination of family elderly care beds and family beds to promote the formation of complementary medical care and rehabilitation services in the home environment, in order to solve the problem of elderly people's home care and medical treatment. For example, the Xihu District of Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province, civil affairs and health departments jointly issued the "Xihu District on the establishment of" One bed for the elderly "service mechanism of the implementation plan (trial)" to explore the establishment of "one bed for the elderly" service mechanism, the family hospital bed and home care bed "two beds" integration. At present, pilot projects have been carried out in some streets to provide convenient medical services and personalized life care services for the elderly.

"Family beds are suitable for patients with chronic diseases who cannot be treated intermittently all year round, patients who need to stay in bed for a long time due to disease, etc., they are clearly diagnosed and meet the hospitalization conditions, and are suitable for regular systematic treatment, nursing and rehabilitation by medical staff under home conditions after assessment." These patients often have both medical and in-home care needs." Lu Yang, deputy director of the geriatrics Department of the First Affiliated Hospital of Chongqing Medical University, said that the connection between family beds and family nursing beds and other service forms is complementary, allowing the elderly to enjoy home care and professional medical services at the same time.

To expand the use of family beds and strengthen home medical and elderly care services, the key is to improve the community-level capacity for disease prevention and treatment and health management. A person in charge of a grass-roots community service center said that it is necessary to strengthen the construction of the team, equip the remote care system, improve the family bed medical liability insurance, etc., so as to protect the personal safety of medical personnel and the legitimate rights and interests of both doctors and patients, and enrich the service supply and service mode for the elderly.

Lu Yang believes that to better play the role of family beds, we should further make efforts in institutionalization and standardization, and improve the norms of family beds and home nursing services. For example, further clarify the object, service content, service form, service agreement and operation norms of family doctors' home medical services; Establish a family bed quality control and evaluation mechanism, and regularly evaluate the service quality of family beds and the satisfaction of service objects. At the same time, it is necessary to guide social forces to actively participate, coordinate regional medical resources, and increase the supply of home medical services.