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This paper is a survey of community-based comprehensive social service system for the elderly in Shanghai, Gansu and Yunnan. The degree of aging in China is arising. It is an arduous task to develop social services for the aged to meet the needs of the elderly in the aspects of family life, cultural entertainment, medical care, mental health, legal consultation, and so on. At present, the social service for the elderly is not only lack of resources on manpower, capital, and equipment, but also lack of related policies. This study shows that the three places with different development levels and stages have taken different measures. They formulated policies, optimized the allocation of existing resources in the community, and integrated all aspects of society into aging social service in a community platform. It has created a new situation of community comprehensive social service system for the elderly. Three cases provide valuable experiences in making social policies to perfect the comprehensive old age social service system of urban and rural communities, in order to make macro policy of the elderly service.
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Ninety percent of the elderly receive service at home, 6% of them at day care center of community, and 4% in nursing homes.
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The local governments at different levels have established public service institutions and regulation officially issued to guarantee the needs of the old people with low-income, incapacitated and mental disabled in the past.
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No family members’ support, no work capability, and no incomes.
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Gurantee foods, clothing, housing, healthcare, and funeral for the elderly with no family members, no working capability and no income support.
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The numbers of students in rural areas are getting less, so schools building in every village are changed to be built in a central village and students from surrounding villages go there to study.
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Square dancing is good for the mental and physical health of the elderly, which builds up their bodies and meanwhile reduces their loneliness. It fits the concept of active and healthy aging.
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Pan, Y. (2019). Community Based Social Services for the Elderly in Urban-Rural China: Investigations in Three Provinces. In: Jing, Tk., Kuhnle, S., Pan, Y., Chen, S. (eds) Aging Welfare and Social Policy. International Perspectives on Aging, vol 20. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-10895-3_11
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