Abstract

China will witness a population of more than 1.36 billion among which the population over 60 will reach 0.202 billion making 14.9% and those over 0.65 billion that makes 9.7% by 2013, meaning every 1000 aged citizens will share 24.4 beds in the facilities catering to the serviced for the elderly people, according to a report issued by National Bureau of Statistics of China[1]. An analysis points out that the Chinese elderly care service system will see a transform into a new composition in the coming five years in which 90% will receive the elderly care in their homes, 7% depend mainly on the community elderly care while the rest 3% will receive the institutional elderly care. The home-based elderly care system will become the main stream elderly care system in the future, according to the report based on the study on the current Chinese elderly care service system that consists mainly of homes-based elderly care, community elderly care and institutional elderly care[2].

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