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Medical and Old-Age Care Integration Model and Implementation of the Integrated Care of Older People (ICOPE) in China: Opportunities and Challenges

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The demand for healthy old-age care is growing rapidly in China. The traditional old-age care model can no longer meet elderly patients’ demands for medical care and old-age care. To promote the development of medical care-integrated old-age care, a solution covering multiple aspects is necessary. In the context of the global development of healthy aging, China recently issued many policies to integrate old-age care with medical care, establishing protection for a large number of disabled elderly people. The Integrated Care of Older People (ICOPE) project is an international program developed by the World Health Organization. This paper reviews China’s medical and old-age care integration model and the opportunities and challenges in implementing the ICOPE in the context of healthy aging in China.

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This work was supported by the National Key R&D Program of China (2017YFBI401200, 2017YFBI401201, 2017YFBI401202)

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    Y. Zhou, Y. Li &  Lina Ma

  2. Binhai Industrial Technology Research Institute of Zhejiang University, Tianjin, China

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Zhou, Y., Li, Y., Zhu, X. et al. Medical and Old-Age Care Integration Model and Implementation of the Integrated Care of Older People (ICOPE) in China: Opportunities and Challenges. J Nutr Health Aging 25, 720–723 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12603-021-1595-5

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