What does Ji'nan's elderly care center call for?
source: Journalist Xing
in addition to his own home, Chen Shihua's life in Ji'nan, Shandong, has another "home".
every morning, the 69 year old man of solo was carrying a water cup through the noisy street and walking for more than 10 minutes at half past eight on time to appear in a quiet courtyard in the community. Here, besides the delicious food, there are beds for rest. She can rub, talk and watch with the old neighbors. She didn't go home until half past four in the afternoon.
on the day of "bustling and forgetting time", Chen Shihua has been in Ji'nan for 7 years. 7 years ago, the "old station" new community pension model began to enter the local public view. At the beginning of the operation, the community care station has been widely praised for its convenient service and sense of belonging to the elderly.
nowadays, in Ji'nan, there are fewer and fewer elderly people enjoying daycare services like Chen Shihua. According to the statistics of Ji'nan Civil Affairs Bureau, 19 old age care stations in the city have been reduced to 7 at the beginning of construction. In other areas where elderly care services are carried out, the Toronto station is also experiencing development difficulties.
when the community pension is being placed more and more seriously, why does the old age station fall into the embarrassment of "applause"? What is the end of the home gate for the aged? As the "sandwich rice" in 2010, the Ji'nan Baotu Spring Street office a two storey building, the "sunset red warm heart to the elderly" brand was quietly picked. The whole process has not attracted the attention of many community residents, but this means that the first community care station in Shandong has become a history.
today, a web search is still available to see the beginning of the founding of the old station: 12 elderly people were "placed" on the day of its establishment, with a lounge, a chat room, a gym, etc., to provide day care, food, teaching, health care, etc. for the elderly in the community... "The office has not only built 280 square meters of small buildings for this purpose, but also offered hundreds of thousands of yuan subsidy every year." Baotu Spring Street office social affairs section chief Zhang Kai said.
"sharing the worries for the government and filial piety for the children" - the first batch of 19 elderly care stations in Ji'nan carried such expectations. In this city, the increasingly serious problem of ageing can not be ignored. According to the data of Ji'nan Municipal Bureau of civil affairs, Ji'nan has entered an aging society since 1987, and the elderly population has been increasing at an average annual rate of 3.2%. By the end of 2012, the number of elderly people aged 60 or above in the city has reached 1 million 60 thousand, accounting for 17.4% of the total population.
according to the person in charge of the social welfare and charity Promotion Department of the Ji'nan Municipal Civil Affairs Bureau, in 2005, Ji'nan City, in conjunction with the Ministry of civil affairs, called for the "community elderly welfare service starlight program", built many new "stars of the elderly", but the operation is not ideal because of the lack of operating subsidies. Since 2007, the Ji'nan Civil Affairs Bureau has expanded these sites to the community care station. At that time, a total of 19 were built, equipped with a small equipment room, each set up beds 20~50 sheets, each bed to give 2000 yuan one-time subsidy.
however, the actual operation is not satisfactory. When our reporter visited, we found that the brand of the lakeside community care station has not been picked yet, but it has been discontinued for a long time. Xing Yanting, the director of the local neighborhood committee, told the media that the tolling station was charged 600 yuan a month, invested by the government, and the streets were provided, because the elderly were too few to be closed for less than a month.
the Weiyi Road community care station was opened in 2008, and the actual operation lasted less than half a year. Li Ling, the director of the neighborhood committee, told the media that the initial number of applicants was not even enough to play a mahjong game.
to delisting the old station, Zhang Kai regretted, "the form is very good, the content is very good, but the old people lack". Not enough to attract, Zhang Kai analysis, which is related to the concept of the elderly, "a lot of elderly people feel that going there will make their children feel unfilial, can not face the face."
responsible for the safety of day care for the elderly, the elderly station generally has restrictions on the time for the elderly to come and go, which is likely to cause dissatisfaction among the elderly. Zhang Kai clearly remembered that at that time, an old man's home was only 150 meters from the elder station. After lunch, it was not going to go home. In view of the physical condition of the old man, it was not allowed to send two staff to help him go home. "
" "the old station" as "sandwich rice", can not fully meet the needs of family conditions, family environment, and can not reach the professional service level of the pension institution. Zhang Kai said.
in the face of the high elimination rate of the elder station, the leaders of the social welfare and charity Promotion Department of the Ji'nan Civil Affairs Bureau believed that this was related to the old people's old concept and low income. In addition, "the most important reason is the lack of input." The person in charge explained that the government had no operating subsidies to the old station to maintain its survival, and the Ji'nan Municipal Bureau of civil affairs had given every twenty thousand or thirty thousand yuan of subsidies to each family regularly from the Fuke provident fund, but it was no more than a cup of water. The survival depends to a large extent on the degree of attention and devotion of the community. Wang Maijin, director of Lao Xin Yuan Lao Lao, who is still in operation at
, admitted that if there was no subsidy of 100 thousand yuan per year, the neighborhood committee would not be able to sustain it. The 26 elderly people, including Chen Shihua, paid only 60~90 yuan per month, and the old people in the other stations had to pay only a few hundred yuan. It was obvious that this could not cope with the day-to-day expenses of the old age.
"only the building of the aging station, but the subsidies for its operation have not been institutionalized, the development of the old station has not reached its expectations," said the person in charge. The key to
is to get the approval of the elderly, and how to connect the old age care model of the old station, some communities are still exploring. "
" and "it is better to continue with its half dead, not better to change the idea of community pension," Zhang Kai explained that, in view of the growing decline in the elderly, the old site of the old site was redecorated, the previous brand was replaced by the Baotu Spring Street comprehensive cultural station. "
" according to the relevant provisions of the Ji'nan Civil Affairs Bureau, 47 elderly people in the community who live alone, empty nest, subsistence allowances and serious illness are eligible for home care. In addition, most of the elderly in the community can take care of themselves, do not want to go to the nursing homes, refuse to go to the home, and do not meet the conditions of the home. The establishment of the cultural station can meet their spiritual needs and self value, "Zhang Kai said, the newly built cultural stations are built with newspaper reading rooms, computer rooms, dance rooms and so on, almost every day. There are more than 20 old people.
"I don't think we are going to switch off or stop the old age station, but we will further deepen the community pension model," Zhang Kai said.
in 2008, after nearly a year of operation, the 27 New Village Street Office of Ji'nan city contracted to the elderly Liu Lei who had limited capacity and run down to the nursing experience, and carried on the market operation. 27 Qian Xiugang, deputy director of the new village street office recalled, "if we don't carry out the market operation, we will definitely not live."
, at that time, the oldest old station was only 1 old people, Liu Lei held the idea of "full support to drive day care", expanded the bed, opened a full care project, and absorbed more than 20 elderly people in the community at most.
in 2012, the street office had done a survey of the service for the elderly. The results showed that 13% of the total population was over 60 years old in the jurisdiction. The elderly had the needs of old and old people. Obviously, the traditional single pension model needs to be changed.
on this basis, the office invested 3 million 500 thousand yuan, plus about 1300000 yuan from government subsidies, and established the first daytime care center in Shandong, with a building area of 1600 square meters. Not only expanded the whole bed, but also introduced intelligent old-age service in the whole province, implemented the membership system for the elderly in the community, and provided many items such as physical examination, physical therapy, entertainment and so on.
the "community care for the aged" should first be recognized by the elderly. Under the severe aging situation, the day care center is the trend of development. In the next step, Qian Xiugang said, the office will consider introducing professional social work through government purchase services, and will start more day care centers at community neighborhood committees.
Liu Lei, director of the care center, is still faced with the confusion of insufficient publicity and many elderly people who do not accept it. She hopes that the government can increase investment, for example, if the restaurant is able to reduce the current price to two or three yuan, it will surely attract more elderly people.
according to the person in charge of the Ji'nan Civil Affairs Bureau, the community of Ji'nan has built nearly one hundred day care centers, and the cost of the construction is subsidized by the provincial finance according to the standard of building area, and the Ji'nan Municipal Bureau of civil affairs is currently negotiating with the Ji'nan Finance Bureau. To reduce the operating burden of these institutions.
the leader was optimistic about the new model of the daytime care center, but pointed out that "if the government is inadequately invested, how much role the daytime care center can play and even survive is still unknowns."
to solve the community pension in many ways, because of the implementation of the family planning policy and the reduction of the female fertility desire brought by the economic development, the family pension is unsustainable in our country. The vice dean of the school of philosophy and social development of Shandong University, the doctoral tutor of social security of the Department of sociology and the director of the demography research room In an interview with this reporter, Professor Song Quancheng pointed out that in Shandong Province, in 2012, the family planning family in Shandong province involved 41 million 896 thousand people, accounting for 41.97% of the total population, and "the traditional family pension is facing a severe challenge." "
" and pension institutions lack enough input, too few to meet the demand. Therefore, the community pension has become an important way for the elderly to provide for the aged in our country, "Professor Song Quancheng said.
the head of the Ji'nan Municipal Civil Affairs Bureau also believes that "the potential of the community for the aged is huge, but the role it should play on the supporting pillar has not yet been achieved." Professor Song Quancheng pointed out that in the academic community, community pension is specifically divided into two ways of caring for the old people who can not take care of themselves, taking care of themselves in the community and taking care of self care and half self care in the community.
"however, at present, there are still some shortcomings in our community pension," Professor Song Quancheng summed up these shortcomings as the lack of enough places in the community, unable to realize the multi-functional endowment of the elderly in order to meet the needs of the elderly people's life, communication, emotion, medical, psychological, legal assistance, and so on. The lack of funds and the lack of institutionalized fund subsidies; at present, the staff of the community pension institutions are most of the staff and volunteers in the community. The staff are unstable, without professional training, and the quality is low, so it is difficult to meet the diverse needs of the elderly.
to this, Professor Song Quancheng suggested that the government should introduce relevant policies to remould some old communities in order to make some places for the community to provide for the aged; and for the new community, the government can guarantee the community endowment by reducing the amount of land leasing, so as to build more community pension sites. It is.
he also stressed that, in terms of funds, the main body of investment should be the government, and it can also appropriately absorb private capital from the business community, personal donation, and also try to issue pension welfare lottery and raise the pension funds. In the aspect of old-age workers, the government can absorb more society by buying services or posts. Professional professionals in the field of work and improve their work treatment; the community can also develop mutual support among relatives, friends and neighbors.
mutual assistance has been written into the plan for the construction of the old-age service system during the "12th Five-Year" of Shandong Province: "relying on the old people 's family, vigorously developing the neighbourhood support and mutual assistance, creating a platform for mutual help, spiritual comfort and leisure and entertainment for the elderly." Many kinds of old-age service entities such as daytime care center for the elderly, the food and delivery center of the elderly and the domestic service company are vigorously developed to provide professional services for the elderly, such as helping meals, helping cleaning, bathing, and helping doctors. " The people in charge of the Ji'nan Civil Affairs Bureau suggest that the pension power in the community should form a joint force and complement each other. For example, the community health provides specific services such as the elderly ward, and the cultural station also has a project for the elderly, which can give full play to the advantages of the comprehensive pension.