The combination of medical care and elderly care is an important measure to achieve healthy aging and meet the needs of the elderly for healthy elderly care services. Recently, the National Health and Health Commission and other nine departments jointly issued the “Notice on Carrying out the Action to Improve the Ability of Community Medical Care Integration”. The notice points out that the focus is on providing health education, preventive health care, disease diagnosis and treatment, rehabilitation nursing, and palliative care for the elderly with disabilities, chronic diseases, advanced age, and disabilities.
On November 12, 2021, in Yangsimiao Community, Guoyuan Town, Changsha County, Changsha, Hunan Province, medical staff Peng Yong (left) and Liu Min gave physiotherapy to the elderly at home. Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Chen Sihan
According to the requirements of the notice, relying on qualified medical and health care, elderly care and other township and community service institutions, effectively use existing resources, improve the service capacity of home and community medical care and elderly care, promote the organic connection between primary medical care and elderly care services, and effectively meet the needs of the elderly within the jurisdiction. Human health and elderly care needs.
The notice makes it clear that the work content of the community medical and elderly care service capacity improvement action includes: First, improve the medical and elderly care service capabilities, provide professional, standardized and safe medical and elderly care services for the elderly in the jurisdiction, and ensure medical and elderly care services. quality; the second is to give full play to the role of traditional Chinese medicine, strengthen the promotion of appropriate traditional Chinese medicine technology, and develop traditional Chinese medicine rehabilitation services; the third is to strengthen team building, support medical personnel to participate in home and community medical care services, expand service teams, and strengthen medical personnel Continuing medical education; The fourth is to improve the level of informatization, carry out smart and healthy elderly care services, promote regional medical and elderly care information exchange and data sharing, and improve service efficiency and level; Fifth, improve facilities, community health service institutions, township health centers or community elderly care facilities with conditions Institutions, support service facilities (homes for the elderly), etc. for the destitute can use existing resources to internally renovate and expand community (township) medical and nursing service facilities.