Research on Elderly Meal Services from Welfare Pluralism Perspective——A Case Study in A City
The growing demand for elderly care services has become one of the biggest challenges in China since the traditional elderly-care model has been unable to meet the actual needs as aging population rises.Meal services have become common needs for the elderly.How to improve the quality of elderly meal services and improve their well-being has become a major issue to implement the national strategy to address population aging.From the perspective of welfare pluralism,the article develops an integrated analysis framework of four dimensions(planning,provision,finance and regulation)and four subjects(state,market,society and individual),and conducts a case study of elderly meal services in A city.Results show that the local government provides a specific and feasible policy implementation environment for elderly meal services from the aspects of policy planning,financing arrangement,supply mode and regulation mechanism.But at the same time,there are deficiencies in the policy construction such as administrative-led service planning,inverted financing arrangement,insufficient competition supply environment and lack of social regulation mechanism,which restricts the sustainable development of elderly meal services.Future development of elderly meal services needs government's supports to improve institutional environment and facilitate social capital in the provision of elderly care services.
elderly care serviceswelfare pluralismelderly meal services
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