A Study On The Social Support Of Family Care For The Elderly Population In Shanghai

With the acceleration of the aging process, pension has become an important issue facing society as a whole. At present, China mainly elderly family-based care, but the heavy burden of care for family caregivers pressure, their social roles and social values has not been widely recognized, the larger burden and pressure faced by family caregivers, how to make the community support the role of the family in order to reduce the burden on caregivers and improve quality of service pension is the main content of this paper. This paper aims to reduce the burden on family caregivers, to improve the quality of care of the elderly, so that our long-term care system more complete and sustainable.Paper by the basic situation of Shanghai Ruijin Road, Huangpu District, the street family caregivers and elderly care situation, the extent of demand for the services of survey results present situation and problems faced by family caregivers on the basis of data analysis the family caregiver stress and factors, the main needs of the family caregivers as well as factors such as usage and pension services related conclusions. Survey results show that family caregivers bear a heavier burden of care, more than half of the caregivers said that greater pressure, and after the adoption of influencing factors on the family caregiver stress regression analysis showed that physical health care for the elderly, guaranteeing income Old number of home care needs of carers have significant impact on the pressure, the use of home care services in the community to help other caregivers have a certain impact on caregiver stress, so guaranteeing financial support for low-income elderly, improve community utilization of home care services and increasing the participation of caregivers of people can achieve to reduce the family caregiver stress load. After community home care service use of the influencing factors regression analysis showed that caregivers age, community home-based care services understand the extent there is a significant impact on the community home care service use degree, is to take care of the health status of the elderly, and other caregivers assistance, caregiver stress have a certain impact on the community home care service use degrees. In addition, the survey results show that caregivers support domestic demand for such services is universal, and because elderly people are suffering from diseases and medical inconvenient, so the higher the demand for medical care and related support. Due to cultural traditions, emotions and other factors, to home-based long-term care model is still the mainstream choice, improve community home care services to alleviate the quantity and quality of family burden is significant.In addition, this paper summarizes the literature on long-term care for older people who experience social support and inspiration at home and abroad, specifically addressed the organizations and groups the United States, Japan, Australia and other countries in the laws and policies, participation, content services, as well as financial support and other aspects of successful experience, combined with China’s actual conditions, including support for the role of domestic policy community home-based care services, home care services to explore the provinces and Shanghai social welfare organizations for family caregivers.Combined questionnaire survey research and literature to make a few suggestions for family caregivers and social support. Top-level design support family caregivers, should improve legislation and organizational support to the family caregivers in order to improve the social status of the family caregivers, to protect its interests should establish long-term care insurance system in order to reduce the financial burden on caregivers, economic sources of long-term care to protect and advance the unification and standardization of volunteers to increase staff support for caregivers. In order to meet the family caregivers of the most common and urgent needs, should provide support for a wide range of domestic class service and support in terms of strengthening community hospital medical rehabilitation, as well as play a supportive role in the formal rehabilitation nursing care facilities. Continue to promote home-based long-term care model in line with China’s national conditions, proved community home-based care services for family caregivers have an important supporting role, it should improve the level of understanding and utilization of the community home-based care services, as well as to create a convenient platform Service is most family caregivers’ needs.