Three questions about China's elderly care services, What will happen tomorrow?

Wu Danxing, a member of the senior care Services expert Committee of the Ministry of Civil Affairs, also expressed a similar view. She believes that the so-called combination of medical and nursing care, or the integrated development of medical and nursing care, should be a hierarchical and diversified supply of professional medical resources to the field of elderly care, rather than simply providing a resource for medical treatment.

Wu Danxing further said that the multi-level supply of medical resources is to achieve the upstream industry to provide health management and health consultation, the midstream industry to provide acute medical treatment and timely diagnosis, and the downstream industry to provide rehabilitation care and daily care. Compared with the supply of resources upstream and downstream, it is far from enough to solve the problem of acute medical treatment. Because a large number of older people are chronically ill or potentially ill, better quality and more guaranteed disease prevention and daily care are even more important for them. To make a simple example, acute medical treatment is like a fire extinguisher, which can control the fire in a short period of time, but the fire prevention and post-disaster recovery is a long period of time, and this normal work is put on the combination of medical and nursing care, which precisely needs the appropriate extension and development of upstream and downstream industries.

Is the introduction of social forces an investment of money

It is more important to optimize the management model, improve and enhance the industry standards

Guiding and supporting social forces to develop the elderly service industry has become the basic principle of promoting the development of the elderly industry in the future. The "Several Opinions of The State Council on Accelerating the Development of the Elderly Service Industry" clearly states that the basic role of the market in the allocation of resources should be given full play, and social forces should gradually become the main body in the development of the elderly service industry. However, there are now views that the introduction of private capital to participate in the elderly care service industry, especially the establishment of elderly care institutions, is mainly to broaden funding channels and make up for the lack of government investment. In short, the introduction of social forces is to rely on market entities such as enterprises and social organizations to "throw money".

In this regard, Diao Haifeng, director of the Publicity Department of the National Aging Committee Office, said that such a view actually dwarfs the role of excellent private capital in promoting the development of the elderly care service industry, which is a more one-sided understanding.

He believes that according to the requirements of The State Council, the introduction of social forces to participate in the elderly service industry and support social forces to establish elderly care institutions, on the one hand, it is indeed necessary to give full play to the market mechanism, mobilize more private resources to enter the aging industry, provide convenient and affordable various types of elderly care services and products, and meet the diversified and multi-level needs of elderly care services; On the other hand, after the entry of excellent and responsible social forces, in addition to bringing abundant funds and high-quality capital operation, it is more important to optimize the management mode of the elderly care service industry, improve and raise industry standards, and cultivate a large number of management talents with advanced concepts. Therefore, the contribution to the entire industry has both "hard improvement" and "soft promotion". You can't just use "throwing money" to sum it up.

Song Guangju also believes that the current positioning of the elderly care service industry is not high, the lack of a unified promotion organization, and the policy support of the industry needs to be strengthened. Although the market-oriented mechanism is gradually being established, the elderly care industry chain including development, operation and service has not been established, and the investment forces of all parties have not formed a mature and effective profit model. In this case, there is an urgent need for high-quality market players, especially state-owned enterprises with a sense of social responsibility, to take the lead in entering the industry and play an exemplary role in the development of the industry.

Song Guangju said that the biggest role of social forces entering the elderly care service industry should be to explore and form an industrial model that can effectively meet market demand and promote the introduction and optimization of relevant government policies. For example, in the future, whether social forces can reduce and reduce the land price of elderly care institutions, and whether the construction of special community elderly care apartments can enjoy the relevant preferential policies of affordable housing