Research And Analysis Between Of Urban And Rural Old-age Home Service In Shanghai City

Shanghai is the earliest city to enter aging society in China, and now is under the challenge of aging population. Aged care has been a serious problem for Shanghai. Home-based society aged care carries advantage of traditional in home care, and also can make up the disadvantage of institution-base aged care. So the service mode has been accepted by both aging population and their family.The home-based aging care service was started in Shanghai in year 2000, and has been developed to a considerable scale. This service mode has been an important aid to in home aging care and solve different aging care problem for aging population and their family. But the further development of this mode is constrained by several issues like policy, funding, service training and service evaluation system. Meanwhile, the home-based aging care service also has significant difference in urban and suburban area.This paper compares urban and suburban home-based aging care service from different point view. Jing An district and Feng Xian distract are picked to represent current service status for urban and suburban area. A questionnaire survey is designed to interview the elder people in these two districts, and data was analyzed to understand current home-based aging care service operation status and problems. Suggestion was made to solve these problems from a three-dimension perspective of government, community and family. Key points of development also have been pointed out for urban and suburban area to help government make decision in order to help home-based aging care service development.The innovation of this paper is finding difference of development problems by comparing the home-based aging care in different area of Shanghai, and summarizing key points for urban and suburban area. These methods can be used for other area to develop home-based aging care.