Opinions on promoting the construction of a basic elderly care service system

Q: What are the basic principles for building a basic elderly care service system?

A: The construction of a basic elderly care service system should adhere to the basic, inclusive, shared and systematic principles. These four principles are a unified whole and run through the whole process of the construction of the basic elderly care service system.

The basic principle is to base on China's basic national conditions, take into account the necessity and possibility, focus on ensuring basic, wide coverage and sustainability, and do what we can to ensure the basic life and care needs of the elderly.

The principle of inclusiveness means that in the process of improving the level of equality of basic public services, the object and content of basic elderly care services should be gradually expanded, so that all eligible elderly people can easily access basic elderly care services and obtain them roughly equally.

The principle of shared responsibility is to help needy families share the burden of support and care by providing basic elderly care services, giving play to the role of the market, and guiding social mutual assistance on the basis of effectively fulfilling their obligations to support and support their dependents.

The systematic principle is to promote the optimization and integration of institutional resources such as social insurance, social assistance, social welfare, charity, and preferential treatment for the elderly, strengthen the coordination of institutional reforms in relevant fields, and support the development of the basic old-age service system.

Q: What are the goals and tasks of building a basic elderly care service system?

A: The Opinions have specified specific targets by 2025. The "14th Five-Year Plan" period focuses on the basic needs of elderly care services when the elderly face difficulties such as disability, disability, and no one to take care of them that are difficult for families and individuals to cope with. By 2025, the basic elderly care service system will be basically complete, the list of basic elderly care services will be continuously improved, the service object, service content and service standards will be clear, the service supply, service guarantee and service supervision mechanisms will be continuously improved, and the basic elderly care service system will cover all elderly people.

The Opinions put forward five key tasks. The first is to formulate and implement the list of basic elderly care services, requiring all relevant departments to strictly implement the "National List of basic elderly care Services", and the provincial government to formulate and publish the specific implementation plan and list of basic elderly care services in the region. The second is to establish a precise service active response mechanism, carry out a comprehensive assessment of the ability of the elderly, and gradually realize the transition from "people looking for services" to "services looking for people". We will strengthen support for elderly people with disabilities. For the elderly living alone, empty nest, left-behind, disabled, severely disabled, family planning and other special families to provide visiting care services, relying on the grass-roots management service platform to provide elderly care service policy consultation, information inquiry, business management and other convenient services. The third is to improve the basic old-age service security mechanism, promote the establishment of relevant insurance and welfare and assistance of the long-term care security system, reasonably determine the scope of financial difficulties disabled elderly care subsidies and subsidy standards, establish a basic old-age service funding security mechanism, implement the development of preferential support policies for old-age services, encourage social forces to participate in the provision of basic old-age services. The fourth is to improve the supply capacity of basic elderly care services, formulate an overall plan to promote the development of elderly care service facilities at different levels, and construct elderly care service facilities in accordance with standards and requirements. Elderly care service facilities invested by the government or funded by the government are given priority to basic elderly care services, and ensure the effective operation of service institutions supporting the extremely poor. Fifth, improve the facilitation and accessibility of basic elderly care services, develop street (township) regional elderly care service centers or service complexes for the elderly, give priority to the transformation of public service facilities closely related to the daily life of the elderly, implement home aging transformation for disabled, elderly and disabled elderly families who are included in the decentralized special poverty support, and strengthen the construction of barrier-free information.

Q: What are the contents of the national basic elderly care service list system? What is the significance of formulating the National Basic Elderly Care Service List?