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Long-term care system for older adults in China: policy landscape, challenges, and future prospects
Abstract
In China, the population is rapidly ageing and the capacity of the system that cares for older people is increasingly a concern. In this Review, we provide a profile of the long-term care system and policy landscape in China. The long-term care system is characterised by rapid growth of the residential care sector, slow development of home and community-based services, and increasing involvement of the private sector. The long-term care workforce shortage and weak quality assurance are concerning. Public long-term care financing is minimal and largely limited to supporting welfare recipients and subsidising the construction of residential care beds and operating costs. China is piloting social insurance long-term care financing models and, concurrently, programmes for integrating health care and long-term care services in selected settings across the country; the effectiveness and sustainability of these pilots remain to be seen. Informed by international long-term care experiences, we offer policy recommendations to strengthen the evolving care system for older people in China.
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- Authors
- Feng, Z., Glinskaya, E., Chen, H., Gong, S., Qiu, Y., Xu, J., & Yip, W.
- Venue
- The Lancet
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2020-10
- Volume
- 396
- Issue
- 10259
- Pages
- 1362-1372
- ISSN
- 0099-5355 (ISSN-L)
- 0140-6736
- OpenAlex
- W3094401697
- Cited by
- 668
- References
- 39
- FWCI
- 50.11
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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