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tforms and logistics companies, to participate people, and appropriately add special care
in meal assistance and meal delivery. Qualified areas for the elderly with cognitive disabilities.
areas may also receive operating subsidies or
incentive subsidies to provide meal assistance • Enriching cultural and sports services
service agencies, and localities will receive for the elderly: Build a national university
support to provide subsidies or issue vouchers for for the elderly and promote open education,
elderly people who use meal assistance services. and based on this university, build a national
public service platform for elderly education
• Expanding home-based elderly care and establish a resource database and
services: Encourage elderly care institutions, teacher database for elderly education.
housekeeping companies, and property service Improve accessibility of entertainment and
companies to provide door-to-door home care media outlets such as the provision of large-
services; encourage retail companies and social print books, and promote the creation of
work agencies to assist the elderly with tasks, such content for the elderly.
as purchasing daily necessities, housekeeping,
hospital registration, and medicine collection. • Improving rural elderly care services:
Leverage support service facilities (nursing
• Developing community services: Focusing homes) for the extremely poor in rural areas,
on the “15-minute community” concept, build and use entrusted operations and other
and renovate a number of community consumer methods to provide elderly care services.
service centers and design the layout of physical
stores of facilities to be suitable for the elderly. Expanding product supply and
Encourage shopping malls, supermarkets, and unleashing industry potential
other retail stores to open special areas or
convenient windows for the elderly. In addition to the social side of elderly
services, the opinions also highlight ways
• Optimizing health services for the elderly: to capitalize on the elderly population as a
Improve geriatric medicine departments in consumer base and develop the overall silver
general hospitals and traditional Chinese economy, while striving to improve products
medicine hospitals, and improve the prevention and services aimed at the elderly.
and treatment of geriatric diseases. Build
more rehabilitation hospitals, nursing homes, In order to develop the overall silver economy,
and hospice care institutions, and encourage the opinions propose a variety of pilot and
medical institutions to extend rehabilitation development initiatives. These include
services to communities and families through day promoting the development of industry
rehabilitation, home beds, home visits, and so on. clusters by planning 10 so-called “silver
economy industrial parks” in development
• Improving elderly care services: Guide areas, such as the Jing-Jin-Ji Economic Circle,
local governments to implement differentiated the Yangtze River Delta, the Greater Bay Area,
subsidies for ordinary beds and nursing beds in and the Chengdu-Chongqing Twin City Circle.
nursing homes, increase the construction and They also call for facilitating cross-regional
renovation of elderly care institutions, improve the and international cooperation through free
care and service capabilities of disabled elderly trade zones (FTZs) and demonstration zones.
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in meal assistance and meal delivery. Qualified areas for the elderly with cognitive disabilities.
areas may also receive operating subsidies or
incentive subsidies to provide meal assistance • Enriching cultural and sports services
service agencies, and localities will receive for the elderly: Build a national university
support to provide subsidies or issue vouchers for for the elderly and promote open education,
elderly people who use meal assistance services. and based on this university, build a national
public service platform for elderly education
• Expanding home-based elderly care and establish a resource database and
services: Encourage elderly care institutions, teacher database for elderly education.
housekeeping companies, and property service Improve accessibility of entertainment and
companies to provide door-to-door home care media outlets such as the provision of large-
services; encourage retail companies and social print books, and promote the creation of
work agencies to assist the elderly with tasks, such content for the elderly.
as purchasing daily necessities, housekeeping,
hospital registration, and medicine collection. • Improving rural elderly care services:
Leverage support service facilities (nursing
• Developing community services: Focusing homes) for the extremely poor in rural areas,
on the “15-minute community” concept, build and use entrusted operations and other
and renovate a number of community consumer methods to provide elderly care services.
service centers and design the layout of physical
stores of facilities to be suitable for the elderly. Expanding product supply and
Encourage shopping malls, supermarkets, and unleashing industry potential
other retail stores to open special areas or
convenient windows for the elderly. In addition to the social side of elderly
services, the opinions also highlight ways
• Optimizing health services for the elderly: to capitalize on the elderly population as a
Improve geriatric medicine departments in consumer base and develop the overall silver
general hospitals and traditional Chinese economy, while striving to improve products
medicine hospitals, and improve the prevention and services aimed at the elderly.
and treatment of geriatric diseases. Build
more rehabilitation hospitals, nursing homes, In order to develop the overall silver economy,
and hospice care institutions, and encourage the opinions propose a variety of pilot and
medical institutions to extend rehabilitation development initiatives. These include
services to communities and families through day promoting the development of industry
rehabilitation, home beds, home visits, and so on. clusters by planning 10 so-called “silver
economy industrial parks” in development
• Improving elderly care services: Guide areas, such as the Jing-Jin-Ji Economic Circle,
local governments to implement differentiated the Yangtze River Delta, the Greater Bay Area,
subsidies for ordinary beds and nursing beds in and the Chengdu-Chongqing Twin City Circle.
nursing homes, increase the construction and They also call for facilitating cross-regional
renovation of elderly care institutions, improve the and international cooperation through free
care and service capabilities of disabled elderly trade zones (FTZs) and demonstration zones.
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