Zhejiang aims to keep its elderly close
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East China鈥檚 Zhejiang Province will explore building more community-based nursing homes this year amid efforts to cope with the rapidly aging population.
The move aims to build nursing homes near where the elderly currently live, said Wang Jianhou, director of the Zhejiang Provincial Civil Affairs Department, at the annual session of the Zhejiang provincial people鈥檚 congress.
Most elderly Chinese rely on home care. In Zhejiang, home care for the elderly accounts for 98.5 percent, while institutional care is responsible for the rest. There are 2,458 nursing homes in the province, two-thirds of which are privately run.
In China, most nursing homes are far from the city centers and serve so many people that most of the elderly are unwilling to go there. It is also inconvenient for their children to visit.
Zhejiang has 12 million people aged 60 or above 鈥 23 percent of the population 鈥 making it one of the most aged areas of the country.
Many of the elderly do not have children around them. They need physical care as well as psychological comfort.
Zhejiang Province is actively responding to the national strategy for population aging by promoting home, community and institutional integration. It is also building a system combining medical and health care.
鈥淲e will encourage and foster the establishment of small-sized and professional nursing homes in communities, and try to make sure every senior citizen in the urban areas can find a nursing home within 1 kilometer of their homes,鈥 said Wang.
The Xihu district of Hangzhou, capital of Zhejiang Province, has begun a pilot program setting up a community-based nursing home providing about 100 beds for local elderly.
Official surveys showed that such nursing homes are more popular among the elderly and their children in communities with higher senior citizen populations.
According to this year鈥檚 provincial government work report, Zhejiang aims to build 340 new community-based nursing homes in the towns and sub-districts across the province this year.
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