Abstract
With the acceleration of aging population trend and the further development of market economy system, it is the establishment and improvement of urban communities Socialized Elder Care Service System participated by pluralistic entities that has become the basic strategies in current China to deal with the problem of aging population. From the policy empirical research of social forces participated in Community Socialized Elder Care Service (CSECS) System in Shanghai recent years, this paper reveals the role positioning, basic functions and the interaction of the government, society organizations, citizens and other bodies which participated in the process of CSECS System establishment currently. And then, by analyzing external barriers and internal constraints faced by this social elder service system, this paper puts forward some suggestions to improve it. This study will be important theoretical value and practical significance for the construction and improvement of SCECS with Chinese characteristics policy pattern based on the positive interaction of “government-society-family”.
Highlights
Basing on the standard of aging population developed by the UNs, China has entered the “aging” society on theHow to cite this paper: Yu, K. (2014) Diverse Participation and Orderly Guiding: The Establishment Policy Strategies of the Community Socialized Elder Care Service System in Shanghai, China
According to the latest statistical information about the aging business and the aging population monitoring made by Shanghai Civil Affairs Bureau [9], the total amount of the aging population over the age of 60 in Shanghai had reached 3.876 million for 27.1% of the total population with city household by the end of 2013, which is much higher than the national average of 15%
In term of the monitoring statistics information of aging population and the affairs of aging Shanghai Committee on Aging [10], the current situation of population aging in Shanghai generally has the following characteristics: 1) The proportion of aging population in urban household population continues to increase in recent years
Summary
Basing on the standard of aging population developed by the UNs, China has entered the “aging” society on the. In China, when Chinese local governments have adopted many kinds of policy to building the community old service system in the last decade, there are many scholars to pay their close attention about the elder care themes. Some scholars, such as Wang Xupu [4], Xiong Bijun [5], Liu Xiaojing & Zhang Jiliang [6], Chen Yuguang [7], Zhang Zhongbing & Xu Xian [8], etc., had discussed the general principle or local practical experiences of the community elder care server system, but there are still fewer papers to discuss the elder care server system construction policy strategy in Shanghai. It will be beneficial to understand the realistic meaningfulness of the Chinese characteristic community care policy
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