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The Requirements For Institutional Caring And The Development Of Old-Age Care Institution

Posted on:2010-01-27Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:Y L FuFull Text:PDF
GTID:2246330374995397Subject:Sociology
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Old-age care institution is a product of social division of labor. It is accompanied by industrialization and urbanization process created and developed, and the essence of old-age care institution transfer of functions. Our country’s institutional caring started later than others, but with the degree of aging of the population growing and aging accelerates, the institutional caring demand is growing. How to regulate the pension sector development, and further improve the old-age service system, is related to the major issues of the elderly can grow old. Therefore, the institutional caring actively explores the optimal model. For improve the quality of life of older persons has important practical significance.The study take a field survey, select Nanjing four old-age care institutions as research object, from the elderly aged demand for the institutional caring, understanding the supply of pension status of agency services, from the service principal, service content, service facilities and service charges4aspects of the inspection. Analyze the imbalance between supply and demand, and then propose the policy recommendations for old-age care institution development.The study found that elderly people to move old-age care institution, both by the decline in personal activities of daily living ability factors, but also by family factors. The family factors contribute to the lack of resources, including family care, family discord, as well as a shortage of housing and other factors. The elderly in old-age care institution have the needs in living facilities, service charges, as well as care services. Meanwhile, the spiritual needs of the elderly are more prominent, and the elderly emotion, interpersonal relationships, culture and entertainment as well as the quest for knowledge needs are spiritual needs of the main embodiment.In the aspect of the old-age care institution services, more social forces participate in the founding and operation of old-age care institution; in the service content, the majority of institutions provide basic care services, including meal service, as well as activities of daily living of the elderly carried out in different differentiated care. Psychological services only a few of the old-age care institution can provide, most old-age care institution ignored the psychological services, or were incapable of providing. In the service facilities," Older basic norms of social welfare agencies to" make a clear provision, the old-age care institution can basically meet the requirements, but overall, the public old-age care institution run by the hardware facilities are often better than the privately-run pension agency. The service charges, old-age care institution services based on staying at different targets, ranging from charging fees, but the overall high fees, only the retired old people can afford it.High standards of service charges has led to institutional caring services, the most prominent, and it is the most important contradictions-the elderly and old-age welfare agencies charging exorbitant fees for appeals to one another. In addition, elderly services, demand and shortage of professional specialization contradiction between the psychological needs of older persons and spiritual comfort to the conflict between the inadequacy of services but also the institutional caring in two pairs of prominent contradictions. On this basis, the author carried out to understand the contradictions of analysis, and summed up is the socialization of social welfare and development of old-age pension system for corporate survival in the environment, lack of funds is the real dilemma faced by pension institutions,"filial piety" cultural tradition of the cultural factors that affect the institutional caring.In this regard, the author suggest to strengthen the government functions, and build a multi-level old-age care institution service system, and enhance the socialization and profession construction of social workers, and the institution should pay attention to the spirit of the elderly, which to meet the different economic affordability and the different health needs of the elderly.
Keywords/Search Tags:Institutional caring for the aged, Old-age care institution, Demands, Service support, Imbalance between supply and demand
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