Aging and Implications for Elderly Care Services in the People’s Republic of China
Uchimura-Shiroshi, Hiroko; Terada-Hagiwara, Akiko | September 2018
Abstract
Aging can be harmful to an economy over the long run, as an increase in the share of the elderly population reduces both the labor force and output per adult, and increases the social security burden. Policy changes can partly offset the labor squeeze. Possible measures include increased female participation rates, increased flexibility of migration policies, and improved relevance and quality of technical and vocational training to reduce possible skills mismatch. Moreover, it is crucial to establish an efficient and sustainable elderly care system to meet the rising needs of the elderly. Three key areas for policy actions are (i) reforming the elderly care service subsidy scheme to focus more on services and performance, (ii) establishing a standardized care needs assessment system and clear standards of elderly care services, and (iii) developing human resource development strategies targeting care service managers and providers.
Citation
Uchimura-Shiroshi, Hiroko; Terada-Hagiwara, Akiko. 2018. Aging and Implications for Elderly Care Services in the People’s Republic of China. © Asian Development Bank. http://hdl.handle.net/11540/8727. License: CC BY 3.0 IGO.PDF ISBN
978-92-9261-299-3
Print ISBN
978-92-9261-298-6
ISSN
2071-7202 (print)
2218-2675 (electronic)
Keywords
Aged Health
Civil Society Development
Infrastructure Development
Infrastructure Development Projects
Technology Development
Underdevelopment
Health Risk
Health for All
Health and Hygiene and the Poor
Quality of Health Care
Public Health
Partnerships in Health Reform
Health Systems
Nutrition and Health Care
Education, Health and Social Protection
Access to Health Care
Project finance
Development programs
Development strategy
Government programs
Infrastructure projects
Industrial development
Social change
Sanitation
Diseases
Water Quality
Health Hazards
Health Care Services
Health Standards
Health Service Management
Health Costs
Electronics
Computers
Child Development
Prenatal Care
Nutrition Programs
Child Nutrition
Child Development
Infrastructure
Central planning
Developing countries
Partnership
Joint venture
Limited partnership
Strategic alliances
Sanitary engineering
Sanitation systems
Sanitation services
Sanitary affairs
Delivery of health care
Prevention of disease
Health status indicators
Digital
State and nutrition
Nutrition and state
Food policy
Nutrition policy
Obesity
Hospices
Sanitation services
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