Yangzhou, Jiangsu： Be kind to the ＂old＂ and increase the ＂small＂, and work together to create a new pattern of high-quality development of old-age care and nursery services.
On the afternoon of September 29,Yangzhou cityHold a press conference on the information of the elderly population and the development of the cause of the elderly in 2021. How to deal with the aging population, how to improve the old-age service, and how to adjust the pension insurance for retirees … … The hot topics concerned by these citizens were answered at the meeting.
It is reported that Yangzhou will further improve the old-age security system, the old-age service system and the health support system, strive to create a friendly social environment for the elderly, and further enhance the sense of acquisition, happiness and security of the elderly.
Comic Shen Jiangjiang
Solve the aging of the population
Be kind to the "old" and increase the "small" to realize the new promotion of old-age care and nursery.
According to Jiang Hongbin, member of the Party Committee of the Municipal Health and Health Commission, by the end of 2021, there were 1,198,500 permanent elderly people aged 60 and above in the city, accounting for 26.19% of the permanent population; There are 962,700 permanent residents aged 65 and above, accounting for 21.03% of the permanent population; There are 177,000 elderly people aged 80 and above and 497 centenarians. The resident elderly population aged 60 and over and 65 and over in the city are 4.04 and 3.99 percentage points higher than that in the whole province, and 7.29 and 6.83 percentage points higher than that in the whole country.
Focusing on coping with the aging of the population, Yangzhou City combined with the two major issues of "one old and one small" which are highly concerned by the society, made overall consideration and overall solution, focused on the shortcomings and weaknesses in the field of old-age care and childcare, and put forward 25 key tasks, bringing together the government, society, market and family forces to build, share and participate in multiple ways, and jointly create a new pattern of high-quality development of old-age care and childcare services.
In the field of old-age care, by 2025, Yangzhou will achieve 100% completion rate of urban street comprehensive old-age care service centers, with more than 40 beds per thousand elderly people, 72% health management rate of elderly people over 65 years old, 85% geriatrics department of public general hospitals above the second level, more than 60% financial investment in old-age care, and 153 demonstration old-age care communities, so as to solidly improve the level of public services for the elderly.
In the field of child care, by 2025, Yangzhou will form a "1+6+N" diversified and diversified infant care service system covering urban and rural areas, achieving the goal of 4.5 places for infants under 3 years old per thousand people and 95% for children aged 0-3 years old, effectively alleviating the worries of "not daring to have children".
Innovate the concept of providing for the aged
Every county (city, district) has full coverage of medical and nursing institutions.
Focusing on improving the old-age service system, in recent years, Yangzhou has focused on the construction of caring communities, giving full play to the ecological and humanistic advantages of Yangzhou, vigorously promoting the construction of a high-quality caring city, and creating a safe and healthy environment of "hearing the local accent and meeting acquaintances" to continuously improve the happiness and satisfaction of the elderly. This year, Yangzhou City was successfully selected as the national home and community basic old-age service promotion action project area in 2022.
Yangzhou innovatively put forward the "3+" concept of "community+","medical care+"and "park+pension" to further improve the construction of community home-based pension service facilities and effectively meet the needs of the elderly for the elderly. In order to meet the basic needs of the elderly in familiar environment and at home, in recent years, 18 street day care centers, 12 street pension complexes and 1416 home community pension service stations have been newly built, and the "15-minute pension service circle" in urban areas has gradually taken shape. Starting from the actual needs of the elderly, 4,426 families of the elderly have been transformed into aging, which will further solve the basic needs of the elderly, improve their living environment and enhance their safety and convenience.
The Municipal People’s Congress promulgated the Regulations of Yangzhou Municipality on Home Care for the Aged, which came into effect on September 1, 2021. There are 31 newly-built retirement communities and 6 street comprehensive retirement service centers in the city. By the end of 2021, there will be 124 retirement communities in the city, and the proportion of elderly people who accept home-based retirement services purchased by the government is over 13%. There are 116 old-age care institutions in the city, with 22,300 beds, including 15,100 nursing beds, accounting for 67.8% of the total number of old-age care institutions; The city has upgraded and upgraded eight standardized rural regional pension service centers, and seven pension institutions, including Baoying Anyi Nursing Home and Yizheng Yuetang Nursing Home, have realized public construction and private operation.
Since 2018, the promotion of the construction of medical and nursing integration institutions has been incorporated into the people’s livelihood. In that year, the full coverage of one medical and nursing integration institution was achieved in each county (city, district). Up to now, every county (city, district) has reached one institution combining medical care with nursing care, and there are 32 institutions combining medical care with nursing care in the whole city. Promote the integration of medical care and nursing care in various forms, solve the problem that nursing homes can’t see a doctor and hospitals can’t provide for the elderly, and better solve the needs of the elderly for healthy old-age care.
Raise the pension
Guarantee life, stabilize people’s livelihood and enhance people’s sense of gain.
As an important basic livelihood system, endowment insurance concerns the vital interests of the broad masses of the people. The pension adjustment for retirees of enterprises, institutions and institutions in Yangzhou in 2022 was successfully completed on July 25th, benefiting a total of 587,500 retirees. The replacement amount has been fully paid, and will be paid according to the adjusted pension from August.
The basic pensions of 500,400 employees (retired or receiving regular living expenses) in the city have been adjusted. Before the adjustment, the per capita pension was 2,278 yuan/month, and after the adjustment, it was 2,419 yuan/month, with a per capita increase of 141 yuan and a per capita increase of 6.22%. The minimum standard of basic old-age insurance for urban and rural residents in the city has been raised from 175 yuan per person per month to 205 yuan. 115 enterprises in the city have formulated enterprise annuity plans, covering a total of 28,500 employees, and the scale of enterprise annuity funds has reached 572 million yuan.
In terms of medical security, by the end of 2021, there were 4.29 million people participating in the basic medical insurance in the city, including 1.631 million employees’ medical insurance and 2.659 million residents’ medical insurance. All eligible elderly people were included in the basic medical insurance system. More than 1 million people participated in the long-term care insurance in urban areas, and 4,559 people applied for treatment and disability assessment were accepted. 19 batches of disability assessment results were completed, and 3,197 people were confirmed to meet the severe disability standards, and nearly 20,000 people received long-term care insurance benefits, with a total fund expenditure of more than 10 million yuan.
(Source: Yangzhou Publishing)