9. Community-Based Elderly Care in Beijing: Status and Prospects

Beijing has been one of the earliest in China entering the aging society, and in response to the aging crisis, it has developed a “9064” model and made community-based elderly care a priority for the development of elderly care. After years of efforts, a “trilateral and four-level” management and service system for community-based elderly care has been put in place, with a rather complete system of laws and policies, quality evaluation system, social security system and industrial development system. Today, community-based elderly care is the main approach to the aging population, with elderly care stations growing into a network with more diversified participants and the fast-growing smart elderly care, and Beijing encourages innovation in this regard. However, Beijing needs to straighten out the boundaries of government, market, society and households in developing community-based elderly care and to pool resources toward the poor, the elderly and the disabled elderly; it also needs to improve the relevant policies for the sustainable development of elderly care stations.