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This chapter reviews the development of home- and community-based long-term care service (HCBS) policies in Shanghai to understand macro-level influences in the community care ecology of the aging population. First, we introduce evolving Chinese eldercare and the challenges it poses to individual older adults, communities, and society. Next, we review caregiving alternatives for Chinese older adults and the history of the HCBS policies in Shanghai during the Economic Reform, paying special attention to the development of the HCBS program in the Jing’an District—the focus of this book. Finally, we analyze these eldercare policy evolutions from the social-ecological perspective.
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Chen, L., Ye, M. (2020). The Development of Community Eldercare in Shanghai. In: Community Eldercare Ecology in China. Palgrave Macmillan, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-4960-1_3
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