Experiences And Reflection

As a new service model, community-based elderly care program developed rapidly in recent years, and more and more cities and regions have adopted this mode. In the process of the development of this model, not only many effect and results but also some problems and deficiencies came up. Hence, this article focuses the theme of the research on the community-based elderly care model, trying to find the gain and loss of it and explore the reasons behind. This article assesses urban community-based elderly care service in the explanatory framework of ecosystem theory, and uses the research method of participant observations, and the skills of the Long Interview are employed. Through the study, I find that the experience of the community-based elderly care model is mainly manifested in five aspects:paying attention to the needs assessment, the daily life care and health needs of the old people, the spiritual needs and social interaction of the aged, and the advantages of this model. In addition, the study also finds four disadvantages. The disadvantages are the lack of the inputs from the government and the support from civil society, the discontinuity of government policies, and the ignorance of social work agencies and social workers. Then, the paper analyzes the experiences and questions. Experiences" Attribution includes five points:our country facing severe pension problems, good personal relations between agency heads and resource controllers, the agency maintaining on professional images, social workers" accomplishment and close cooperation between social workers and neighborhood committees. The reasons causing problems contain three points:economic development level not high enough in our country, changes of relevant leaders and social workers*ignorance.In terms of the structure, the body of this article is divided into five parts. The first part introduces the topic, background and origin and significance of the research. The second part is literature review; especially about the study of community-based elderly care service. The third part illustrates the explanatory framework and research methods. It is that through establishing and looking from a theory, to illustrate how to evaluate the community-based elderly care service of the agency A. The fourth part represents the experience and questions of the evaluation of community-based elderly care service. The fifth part analyzes the experience and questions mentioned in the last part.