A study on the diversification and the dilemma of the elderly support and caring in communities of Handan City.
Abstract
With the aging of the population as well as the increasing number of the elderly and empty nest families, families are playing a decreasingly weak role in their traditional support and caring for the aged, therefore community care services are needed to act as an important safeguard.
But there has been a number of serious problems with communities of Handa City,such as inappropriate concept and recognition among service personnel,inferior infrastructures,single services as well as a lack of fund and professional staff.
Under such circumstances, learning from some welfare states and regions and taking good consideration of the community development in Handan City , the top priority is to improve knowledge ,perfect services and facilities of the community caring for elder people as well as to meet various needs of the older groups.
This theme focuses on the study of diversification and dilemma of the elderly support and caring in communities of Handan City.
The theme , through field investigation, analyses the present state and difficult situations of the elderly caring services and summarizes the experience, in an effort to enable the government and the community understand how important and urgent the elderly caring services are and put forward new policies and suggestions for promoting the services on the basis of the past studies.