Abstract
China today faces the rigorous aging problem. In the traditional sense, the government has the duty to take over all the public affairs including the social elderly care. However, the expanding demand of social elderly care and the limited social resources extremely restrict the process of social elderly care affairs, and in addition, the social elderly care in so-called governmental institutions would lead the inefficiency and even waste of resource. In present, the government plays a role of the core designer and server, namely, the service-oriented government. With explaining the problems now Chinese government faced in theory and practice, this essay tries to put forward some advice to solve the dilemma in social elderly care.
Highlights
With the social changes in Chinese economic structure, China’s population aging process is accelerating
The service-oriented government is constructed under the concept of Citizen-based and community-based government and it provide services to meet the needs of citizens and society
Some scholars believe that the principle of service-oriented government coming from the new public management, says steering rather than rowing
Summary
With the social changes in Chinese economic structure, China’s population aging process is accelerating. (2016) The Future of Social Elderly Care in China: From the Perspective of Service-Oriented Government. The social endowment service system construction plan (2011-2015) mentioned that China’s social endowment service system is combined with three main parts, the household elderly care, the community elderly care and the institution for elderly care It offers the lifetime care, rehabilitation nursing, spiritual consolation, emergency rescue and other elements related to the elderly care to the all aging individuals. This essay analyzes the current aging problem which the society faces and the dilemma it might experience It chooses a fresh point of view to discuss the problems and tries to raise approaches from both theory and practice aspects
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