Respite Service: Work Innovation to Solve the Problem of Home Care for the Elderly

Abstract

In 2011, Chinese society has entered an aging society in an all-round way. In 2030, it will overtake Japan and become the country with the highest degree of population aging in the world. Zhejiang and Hangzhou are the first areas in the country and the whole province to enter the aging society. In order to cope with problems of aging society, problems of the high aging of the population and problems of empty nest families, to solve the problem of home care for the elderly, to innovate the service for the elderly, this project selects 25 communities under the jurisdiction of Tianshui Street, Changqing Street and Xiaoying Street in Hangzhou as the typical communities. Project group summarizes the typical experience and exploring newly respite service mode which supports of 9073 mode and 9064 mode with Chinese characteristics and on the basis of long-term care at home. In addition, it also exerts a positive far-reaching impact on sustainable development, economic innovation and harmony and stability of provincial and municipal governments. Most of the western developed countries have entered the aging of population under the background of basically realizing modernization. However, China faces with multiple challenges of aging of population aging, the aged aging and the empty-nest, under the background of unrealized modernization. The research group carried out research on typical communities in Hangzhou, summarized typical experience, explored new respite service mode based on long-term care at home, and solved the problem of home care for the elderly, which played a complementary role in implementing the pension policy of the party and the government.