Life expectancy of Shanghai residents grows
3 years, 9 months ago

Life expectancy of Shanghai residents grows

China Daily  

Elderly residents take part in an art class at the day-care center in a citizen service station in Jiaxing sub-district, Shanghai's Hongkou district. Based on statistics released by the Shanghai Municipal Health Commission on Thursday, the infant mortality rate was 2.66 deaths per thousand live births and the maternal mortality rate was 3.66 per 100,000 last year. Fifty internet hospitals platforms were launched in the city last year, together with 134 new smart health houses in neighborhoods and 11 medical emergency sub-stations. To drive the development of high-quality health services for residents, Shanghai will accelerate construction of monitoring and emergency systems for infectious diseases, authorities said. According to the authorities, six emergency medical services substations, 30 community rehabilitation centers, and 100 health service centers in neighborhoods across the city are expected to be built this year.

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Govts tackling population aging problems one at a time
1 month, 3 weeks ago

Govts tackling population aging problems one at a time

China Daily  

A woman plays the piano in a room of a senior-care apartment in Qujing, Yunnan province, in July. A media report last month said the number of Beijing residents aged 60 or above had reached 4.31 million by the end of last year, making up 30.2 percent of the capital's registered permanent residents. The Chinese tradition of respecting and supporting …

Officials strive for quality elder care
2 months ago

Officials strive for quality elder care

China Daily  

An undated photo shows an elderly woman dining at a nursing home in Hangzhou, East China's Zhejiang province. Li Yongxin, deputy director of the elder care service department at the Ministry of Civil Affairs, said during a news conference that the number of elderly care facilities in China had surged to around 410,000 by June, with 369,000 of them community-based. …

Officials strive for quality elder care
2 months ago

Officials strive for quality elder care

China Daily  

By LI LEI | China Daily | Updated: 2024-10-22 10:02 An undated photo shows an elderly woman dining at a nursing home in Hangzhou, East China's Zhejiang province. Li Yongxin, deputy director of the elder care service department at the Ministry of Civil Affairs, said during a news conference that the number of elderly care facilities in China had surged …

China works to provide quality elderly care services: officials
2 months, 4 weeks ago

China works to provide quality elderly care services: officials

China Daily  

Senior residents of the Shenzhen Elderly Care Nursing Home use the interactive rehabilitation training system to exercise. China will build an elderly-friendly society by improving its social security system, elderly care services and health supports, Minister of Civil Affairs Lu Zhiyuan has said, noting that an elderly care services system with distinctive Chinese features is expected to become well-developed and …

China improves health services for elderly unable to care for themselves
4 months, 1 week ago

China improves health services for elderly unable to care for themselves

China Daily  

BEIJING -- China's National Health Commission and the National Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine have decided to launch a campaign for 2024-2027, aiming to improve necessary medical and health services for the elderly who are unable to take care of themselves. A circular has been issued requiring eligible medical and health institutions, principally grassroots institutions, as well as nurseries and …

Aging population spurs spate of new caring professions
4 months, 1 week ago

Aging population spurs spate of new caring professions

China Daily  

Photo taken with a mobile phone shows a senior resident getting into a "Bath Express" vehicle with the help of bath assistants in Southwest China's Chongqing, Sept 27, 2022. With the number of elderly people rising, China is witnessing an increase in the number of new professions in the expanding elderly care sector. In Shanghai, which has one of the …

Health services in remote areas need reinforcement
9 months, 2 weeks ago

Health services in remote areas need reinforcement

China Daily  

Since Ma Fuchang, a public health expert in Qinghai province, became a deputy to the National People's Congress in 2018, he has maintained a simple credo: "You go deep into the grassroots, obtain firsthand information and seek truths from facts." Ma said that in Qinghai, where many residents are scattered across remote, high-altitude outposts, the health service radius per capita …

每日一词|家庭养老床位 home-based care beds for senior citizens
11 months ago

每日一词|家庭养老床位 home-based care beds for senior citizens

China Daily  

1月14日召开的2024年全国民政工作会议公开的一组数据显示，我国目前已累计建成家庭养老床位23.5万张、为41.8万老年人提供居家养老上门服务。 Statistics released on the sidelines of the national civil affairs work conference held on January 14, 2024 showed that a total of 418,000 senior people had been provided with home-based care services. China has provided over 235,000 home-based care beds for senior citizens nationwide according to the statistics. 2023年12月26日，浙江省绍兴市越城区塔山街道社区卫生服务中心的家庭医生上门为家庭病床建床的93岁老人金阿花进行巡诊并配药。图片来源：新华社 【知识点】 家庭养老床位就是把养老服务机构专业照护服务向家庭延伸，从而缓解老人特别是失能老人家庭养老难题。在我国，九成以上老年人倾向于居家养老。但对于一些失能、半失能老人来说，在家虽有儿女环绕，却少了专业照护，翻身、吃饭、洗浴等“小事”成了一家人的“难事”。另据统计，我国60周岁及以上老年人口有2.8亿人，截至2023年三季度全国各类养老机构和设施床位820.6万张。仅靠养老机构无法满足需求。在这一背景下，家庭养老床位的诞生，让老年人不出家门就能享受到专业机构的服务，减轻了家人照护负担，缓解“一人失能、全家失衡”局面。 家庭养老床位是“十三五”时期国家开展居家社区养老服务改革试点中产生的创新举措。“十四五”时期，民政部、财政部联合开展居家和社区基本养老服务提升行动项目，拿出“真金白银”为项目地区符合条件的经济困难的失能、部分失能老年人建设家庭养老床位，鼓励探索失能老年人居家养老专业照护模式。家庭养老床位这一服务模式送来的服务由养老护理员等具有专业资质的服务人员提供，更符合失能老人需求。老人生活场所也将进行专门的适老化、智能化改造。 【重要讲话】 实施积极应对人口老龄化国家战略，发展养老事业和养老产业，优化孤寡老人服务，推动实现全体老年人享有基本养老服务。 We will pursue a proactive …

每日一词|家庭养老床位 home-based care beds for senior citizens
11 months ago

每日一词|家庭养老床位 home-based care beds for senior citizens

China Daily  

1月14日召开的2024年全国民政工作会议公开的一组数据显示，我国目前已累计建成家庭养老床位23.5万张、为41.8万老年人提供居家养老上门服务。 Statistics released on the sidelines of the national civil affairs work conference held on January 14, 2024 showed that a total of 418,000 senior people had been provided with home-based care services. China has provided over 235,000 home-based care beds for senior citizens nationwide according to the statistics. 2023年12月26日，浙江省绍兴市越城区塔山街道社区卫生服务中心的家庭医生上门为家庭病床建床的93岁老人金阿花进行巡诊并配药。图片来源：新华社 【知识点】 家庭养老床位就是把养老服务机构专业照护服务向家庭延伸，从而缓解老人特别是失能老人家庭养老难题。在我国，九成以上老年人倾向于居家养老。但对于一些失能、半失能老人来说，在家虽有儿女环绕，却少了专业照护，翻身、吃饭、洗浴等“小事”成了一家人的“难事”。另据统计，我国60周岁及以上老年人口有2.8亿人，截至2023年三季度全国各类养老机构和设施床位820.6万张。仅靠养老机构无法满足需求。在这一背景下，家庭养老床位的诞生，让老年人不出家门就能享受到专业机构的服务，减轻了家人照护负担，缓解“一人失能、全家失衡”局面。 家庭养老床位是“十三五”时期国家开展居家社区养老服务改革试点中产生的创新举措。“十四五”时期，民政部、财政部联合开展居家和社区基本养老服务提升行动项目，拿出“真金白银”为项目地区符合条件的经济困难的失能、部分失能老年人建设家庭养老床位，鼓励探索失能老年人居家养老专业照护模式。家庭养老床位这一服务模式送来的服务由养老护理员等具有专业资质的服务人员提供，更符合失能老人需求。老人生活场所也将进行专门的适老化、智能化改造。 【重要讲话】 实施积极应对人口老龄化国家战略，发展养老事业和养老产业，优化孤寡老人服务，推动实现全体老年人享有基本养老服务。 We will pursue a proactive …

Community health centers provide convenient care for elderly
11 months, 1 week ago

Community health centers provide convenient care for elderly

China Daily  

With respiratory diseases on the rise in China during winter, a key issue for primary-level communities to address was how to make it more convenient for the more vulnerable and elderly to receive treatment. Data from the National Health Commission showed that in the first half of 2023, the country's basic health services benefited 89.88 million elderly people aged 65 …

Community health centers provide convenient care for elderly
11 months, 1 week ago

Community health centers provide convenient care for elderly

China Daily  

With respiratory diseases on the rise in China during winter, a key issue for primary-level communities to address was how to make it more convenient for the more vulnerable and elderly to receive treatment. Data from the National Health Commission showed that in the first half of 2023, the country's basic health services benefited 89.88 million elderly people aged 65 …

40 percent more elderly covered by public healthcare services
1 year, 1 month ago

40 percent more elderly covered by public healthcare services

China Daily  

China has channeled a tremendous amount of resources into improving grassroots healthcare infrastructure and nurturing related talent, and has made continuous efforts to promote the high-quality formation of families by strengthening healthcare for women and children, officials said in Beijing on Wednesday. "We've also pushed forward with family doctor services for average people, especially those key groups such as the …

Beijing accelerates building of palliative care service system
1 year, 8 months ago

Beijing accelerates building of palliative care service system

China Daily  

BEIJING -- After being diagnosed with gastric cancer in 2020, Zhang Hua, 62, was sent to the Puhuangyu community health center in Beijing's Fengtai District for better treatment. Over the past three years, Zhang's two daughters have been responsible for looking after him, and eventually, they shifted him to the community health center upon learning that the center provides hospice …

China Asks Citizens Not To Go Home To Visit Elderly Relatives During New Year Holidays Amid Covid Surge: Report
1 year, 11 months ago

China Asks Citizens Not To Go Home To Visit Elderly Relatives During New Year Holidays Amid Covid Surge: Report

ABP News  

People in China have been urged not to visit their elderly relatives during the lunar new year break because Covid is spreading swiftly through cities, regional districts, and rural communities, The Guardian reported. Prof Guo Jianwen, a member of the state council's pandemic prevention team, advised people not to "go home to visit them" if their elderly relatives were not …

Covid has infected over 70% population in this Chinese city in recent surge
1 year, 11 months ago

Covid has infected over 70% population in this Chinese city in recent surge

Live Mint  

Around 70% of Shanghai's total population has been infected by COVID during the recent surge in China, a senior doctor at one of Shanghai's top hospitals expressed recently as reported by the state media on Tuesday. "Now the spread of the epidemic in Shanghai is very wide, and it may have reached 70 percent of the population, which is 20 …

Beijing to test 21 million residents amid fresh Omicron outbreak in China
2 years, 7 months ago

Beijing to test 21 million residents amid fresh Omicron outbreak in China

India Today  

Authorities in the Chinese capital have rolled out mass Covid testing for nearly 21 million residents in most of the city, as they race to contain a fresh outbreak of the Omicron variant in Beijing that has sparked panic buying amid fears of a Shanghai-style lockdown. Gene sequencing of 38 infected samples conducted by the Beijing municipal disease prevention and …

Aged people need special care amid pandemic
2 years, 7 months ago

Aged people need special care amid pandemic

China Daily  

Medical workers help an elder use QR code for nucleic acid test at a community in Shanghai, April 9, 2022. In China, however, the impact of the pandemic has been disproportionately severe on the elderly people due to the rising aging population in the country. China has about 264 million people aged 60 or above and 191 million aged 65 …

Aged people need special care amid pandemic
2 years, 7 months ago

Aged people need special care amid pandemic

China Daily  

Medical workers help an elder use QR code for nucleic acid test at a community in Shanghai, April 9, 2022. In China, however, the impact of the pandemic has been disproportionately severe on the elderly people due to the rising aging population in the country. China has about 264 million people aged 60 or above and 191 million aged 65 …

Shanghai hospital pays the price for China’s COVID response
2 years, 8 months ago

Shanghai hospital pays the price for China’s COVID response

Associated Press  

BEIJING — A series of deaths at a hospital for elderly patients in Shanghai is underscoring the dangerous consequences of China’s stubborn pursuit of a zero-COVID approach amid an escalating outbreak in the city of 26 million people. On Saturday, Shanghai Vice Mayor Zong Ming said the lockdown could soon be lifted or eased in communities that report no positive …

Deaths of elderly patients at Shanghai hospital call China's zero-COVID approach into question
2 years, 8 months ago

Deaths of elderly patients at Shanghai hospital call China's zero-COVID approach into question

ABC  

A series of deaths at a hospital for elderly patients in Shanghai is underscoring the consequences of China's pursuit of a zero-COVID approach amid an escalating outbreak in the city of 26 million people. Key points: Chinese leaders insist the country's zero-COVID approach is working, despite rising cases amid harsh lockdowns Only 62 per cent of Shanghai residents aged over …

Urban health facilities evaluated in new report
3 years, 1 month ago

Urban health facilities evaluated in new report

China Daily  

Chinese eastern and southern cities perform better than those in other parts of the country in public health and supporting facilities, while cities with more than 3 million permanent residents are better compared with those with lower populations, according to a report released by Tsinghua University on Monday. Jointly released by the Tsinghua's Institute for China Sustainable Urbanization and Wanke …

Beijing to increase wards used for infectious diseases
3 years, 10 months ago

Beijing to increase wards used for infectious diseases

China Daily  

A doctor and a nurse help an emergency patient at the emergency room of the China-Japan Friendship Hospital in the evening of Jan 20, 2021, in Beijing. Beijing government will improve its disease control and prevention capacity, especially in terms of public health emergency response and unknown disease monitoring, a draft guideline for the city's next five-year plan said on …

每日一词∣人均预期寿命 average life expectancy
4 years, 1 month ago

每日一词∣人均预期寿命 average life expectancy

China Daily  

根据国家卫健委发布的统计公报，2019年我国居民人均预期寿命达到77.3岁，比2015年提高0.96岁。人均预期寿命的延长见证了“十三五”时期我国医疗卫生体系的不断提升。 Average life expectancy reached 77.3 years in China in 2019. The increase in China's average life expectancy, as seen in a statistical report from the National Health Commission, shows the steady improvement of China's medical and health system during the country's 13th Five-Year Plan period. 2020年8月19日，老年人在北京天坛公园练习太极扇。（图片来源：新华社） 【知识点】 人均预期寿命，指某年某地区新出生的婴儿预期存活的平均年数。它是衡量一个国家或地区现阶段经济社会发展水平和医疗卫生服务水平的综合指标。 孕产妇死亡率和婴儿死亡率是影响人均预期寿命的重要因素。“十三五”期间，国家启动实施了妇幼健康保障工程，2016-2019年，中央下达预算内投资100.5亿元，支持594个妇幼保健机构建设，投资规模较“十二五”时期明显提高，项目地区妇幼保健机构基础设施明显改善，服务能力显著提升，形象面貌焕然一新。 全民医疗保障是人均预期寿命提高的另一重要因素。“十三五”期间，我国基本医疗保险参保覆盖率稳定在95%以上。截至2019年底，我国参保人数超过13.5亿人。2020年，人均财政补助标准已达到550元以上，个人缴费280元，基本实现看病就医有制度保障。 【重要讲话】 人民健康是社会文明进步的基础，是民族昌盛和国家富强的重要标志，要把人民健康放在优先发展战略地位。 The people's health is the foundation of …

每日一词∣人均预期寿命 average life expectancy
4 years, 1 month ago

每日一词∣人均预期寿命 average life expectancy

China Daily  

根据国家卫健委发布的统计公报，2019年我国居民人均预期寿命达到77.3岁，比2015年提高0.96岁。人均预期寿命的延长见证了“十三五”时期我国医疗卫生体系的不断提升。 Average life expectancy reached 77.3 years in China in 2019. The increase in China's average life expectancy, as seen in a statistical report from the National Health Commission, shows the steady improvement of China's medical and health system during the country's 13th Five-Year Plan period. 2020年8月19日，老年人在北京天坛公园练习太极扇。（图片来源：新华社） 【知识点】 人均预期寿命，指某年某地区新出生的婴儿预期存活的平均年数。它是衡量一个国家或地区现阶段经济社会发展水平和医疗卫生服务水平的综合指标。 孕产妇死亡率和婴儿死亡率是影响人均预期寿命的重要因素。“十三五”期间，国家启动实施了妇幼健康保障工程，2016-2019年，中央下达预算内投资100.5亿元，支持594个妇幼保健机构建设，投资规模较“十二五”时期明显提高，项目地区妇幼保健机构基础设施明显改善，服务能力显著提升，形象面貌焕然一新。 全民医疗保障是人均预期寿命提高的另一重要因素。“十三五”期间，我国基本医疗保险参保覆盖率稳定在95%以上。截至2019年底，我国参保人数超过13.5亿人。2020年，人均财政补助标准已达到550元以上，个人缴费280元，基本实现看病就医有制度保障。 【重要讲话】 人民健康是社会文明进步的基础，是民族昌盛和国家富强的重要标志，要把人民健康放在优先发展战略地位。 The people's health is the foundation of …

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