TITLE:
Brief Discussion on Seniors Care Mode of Medical-Seniors Care Integration in the View of Healthy Aging
AUTHORS:
Lin Yang, Xinhong Qi, Wei Liu, Yue Wang, Long Ge, Hua Yao
KEYWORDS:
Healthy Aging, Integration of Medical-Seniors Care, Demand, Guarantee
JOURNAL NAME:
Open Journal of Social Sciences,
Vol.5 No.6,
June
9,
2017
ABSTRACT: The trend of aging population in our country is gradually obvious at present, The nation is getting old before getting rich, the medical care and seniors care resources of seniors are separated, which bring great challenge to the seniors of accessing to quality medical care and seniors care resources, healthy aging goal couldn’t be guaranteed, the sick seniors are usually suffering from chronic diseases with long period illness, complications, treatment difficulty and long-time care, the economic burden of disease and cost of health care workers increased rapidly, with the increase of seniors population that couldn’t take care of themselves, the demand for medical services and long-term care would present a trend of rapid growth, the existing pattern of family care, medical services and financing structure of medical care will be under huge challenge. The traditional concepts of “keeping our aging population healthy and out of poverty” is under tremendous impact, the research on the integration of medical-seniors care is of great practical significance to demands of the large amount of disabled and semi-disabled who need to be taken care of, is the only way to enter the healthy aging in China.