Exploration to and Inspiration of the Development of Community-based Elderly Care Service and Facility in Japan
The social and economic benefit of community-based elderly care service and facilities is excellent,and it is also the emphasis for future development of China's elderly care business.Through evolution for more than twenty years,characteristic facilities system has been explored in the community-based elderly care service in Japan,its development in the recent years has been based on the idea of regional holistic nursing,so as to improve the flexibility and humanization degree of service and facilities setting.This paper reviews the development process of elderly care policy in Japan,combs the background and feature of community elderly care service pattern and the emergence of small-scale multi-purpose facilities,analyzes the concept and development status of regional holistic nursing system,and explores the revelation brought about by Japanese experience to community elderly care service in China,especially the development of elderly care facilities in rural areas.
population ageingcommunity-based elderly careelderly care facilitiesregional holistic nursing system