What are the prospects for working in the elderly care industry?

The degree of aging continues to deepen, and the demand for elderly care is expanding

The United Nations stipulates that the proportion of the elderly population over 65 years old in the total population should reach more than 7 or the proportion of the elderly population over 60 years old in the total population Countries or regions with a proportion of more than 10 are elderly. According to data from the National Bureau of Statistics, from 2010 to 2020, the proportion of the elderly population aged 65 and above in my country's total population has increased year by year. In 2020, the elderly population aged 65 and above was 191 million, accounting for 13.5% of the total population. It is expected that in the future, our country will enter a deeply aging society; the aging of the population is accelerating, which will promote the increase in the demand for elderly care.

Introduction to the home-based elderly care model

In 2008, the National Committee on Aging issued the "Opinions on Comprehensively Promoting Home-based Elderly Care Services", which proposed that home-based elderly care refers to the government and social forces relying on the community to provide services for the elderly at home. A service method that provides life care, housekeeping services, rehabilitation care and spiritual comfort to the elderly. Home-based elderly care is mainly centered on the family, providing support for the elderly through assistance from the government, communities, property management, etc., and meeting the daily needs of the elderly at home.

Policies promote the development of home-based elderly care

In order to deal with my country’s aging problem, the “14th Five-Year Plan” points out that it is necessary to improve the community home-based elderly care service network and develop inclusive elderly care services and mutual assistance. Sexual elderly care supports families to assume the elderly care function, supports adult children to live together with their elderly parents, fulfill support obligations and assume care responsibilities; build an elderly care service system that coordinates home and community institutions and combines medical and health care.

In June 2021, the National Development and Reform Commission, the Ministry of Civil Affairs, and the National Health Commission jointly issued the "Implementation Plan for Actively Responding to Population Aging Projects and Childcare Construction during the "14th Five-Year Plan"", pointing out the need to build a chain of A standardized and standardized community home-based elderly care service network.

Strengthening the construction of community elderly care infrastructure

At present, home care for the elderly in our country is still in the development stage, but the slow construction of elderly care facilities has hindered the promotion of the home care model to a certain extent. During the "14th Five-Year Plan" period, it is proposed to implement the "one elderly and one small" service project to improve the infrastructure of elderly care facilities from three aspects: aging-friendly transformation of families with special needs, community home care service network construction and elderly care institution services, and provide services for key elderly people. Provide effective material security for the normal life of the population.

Intelligent development of home-based elderly care

In recent years, healthy elderly care has been continuously related to the Internet. Driven by the Internet, my country's elderly care industry has gradually entered a networked and intelligent stage. , but at the current stage when my country's overall intelligent technology is limited and the performance of intelligent products needs to be improved, the level of intelligence in the elderly care industry is also low. In December 2020, the "Opinions on Promoting Property Service Enterprises to Develop Home and Community Elderly Care Services" proposed to actively promote smart home and community elderly care services, including building a smart elderly care information platform, configuring smart elderly care service facilities, enriching smart elderly care service forms, and innovating smart elderly care services. Product supply. However, in the medium and long term, intelligence will still be the development trend of healthy elderly care.

—— For more data, please refer to the "Analysis Report on Development Prospects and Investment Strategic Planning of China's Senior Care Industry" by the Qianzhan Industry Research Institute