"13" health services for the elderly will be upgraded

2017-03-22

Source: Health News

      The National Health Commission, the National Development and Reform Commission, the Ministry of Civil Affairs, the Ministry of Finance, the China Disabled Persons' Federation, the Office of the National Committee on Aging and other 13 departments recently issued a "thirteen" healthy aging plan, "requirements in the" Period, the establishment of urban and rural areas to cover the basic medical and health system for the elderly to provide comprehensive and integrated services.

9 work to promote healthy aging

      "Planning" put forward nine tasks: to promote the elderly health promotion and education, to strengthen the elderly health and public health services, improve the elderly health care service system, and actively promote the medical services, strengthen the medical security system, Medicine) characteristics, to provide a wide range of health services for the elderly to promote the development of healthy health care industry, to promote appropriate health support to the environment, strengthen the construction of professional staff.

      It is reported that the "13th Five-Year" period, China's elderly population aged 60 and above an average annual increase of about 6.4 million in 2020 will reach 255 million, accounting for about 17.8% of the total population. Disability and partial disability of the elderly will be more and more, the demand for health care, rehabilitation care and other services is increasing; and family structure changes, so that more and more families face the lack of caregivers.

The five key tasks of the Center for Public Health and Risk Management of the National Health and Family Health Commission's Health Development Research Center are that the nine key tasks are starting from the rigid health needs of the elderly, which is conducive to providing preventive health care, disease treatment, rehabilitation care, medical care and dying Care and other continuous integrated health services, to create a conducive to the aging of the environment.

Urgent need to establish health service system

      "Planning" proposed to strengthen the rehabilitation of hospitals, nursing homes and general hospital geriatric disease construction. By 2020, medical institutions should be generally established for the elderly to provide registration, medical and other services to facilitate the green channel. Establish and improve the health care institutions and pension agencies cooperation mechanism to encourage various forms of contractual services, agreement cooperation. Support the conditional pension institutions in accordance with the relevant provisions of the application for rehabilitation hospitals, nursing homes, Chinese medicine hospitals, peaceful care institutions or clinic, nursing stations, etc., focusing on the disabled for the elderly to provide the necessary medical care and life care services. Public hospital resource-rich areas can be actively and steadily part of the public hospitals to rehabilitation for the elderly, elderly care and other institutions. Study the introduction of the elderly health grading standards, improve the relevant service standards, management standards and supervision and evaluation mechanism, research and development of the corresponding quality management approach.

      According to Hao Xiaoning introduction, orderly convergence, comprehensive and continuous health service system for the elderly basically formed, medical work to further promote the work is to achieve the focus of healthy aging. China's health care service has just started, the policy system is not perfect, the elderly health evaluation system to be improved.

Explore long-term care insurance system

      "Planning" that the full implementation of urban and rural residents serious illness insurance system. On the basis of local pilot, explore the establishment of long-term care insurance system. To achieve the conditions of inter - province off - site hospitalization of the elderly medical expenses direct settlement. Encourage the development of old-age commercial health insurance that is linked to basic health care. As soon as possible to cultivate a group of loving, skilled, will manage the elderly health service workers. Will be the elderly medicine, rehabilitation, nursing talent as a much-needed talent into the health care staff training program, and vigorously promote the old-age care workers vocational skills identification work. Take active measures to protect the legitimate rights and interests of nurses, reasonable to determine and gradually improve their wages.

      "The elderly need special medical services, the outpatient and hospital needs and medical expenses are higher than the social average.Currently, China's elderly health care system is still lagging behind the overall requirements of social development, the elderly long-term care costs without institutional protection Source. "Hao Xiaoning said that in 2015, rehabilitation hospitals, nursing homes, nursing homes health workers than the" Eleventh Five-Year "period increased by 96.5%, 286.7%, 69.9%. However, compared with the huge demand, engaged in the number of elderly health services, lack of, especially the lack of grassroots talent. Old medical team building, nursing, care for the elderly, and other disciplines compared to the construction of weak. In response to these questions, the "plan" put forward the solution.