Emerging services for community-based long-term care in urban China: a systematic analysis of Shanghai's community-based agencies.
China's rapid economic reforms, coupled with the changes in age composition of the demographic structure, have greatly affected the traditional family support system. In response to these changes, efforts to develop new models of community-based long-term care (CBLTC) for elders in China have received growing attention. This paper provides a systematic analysis of the current status of emerging CBLTC systems in Shanghai, China. It covers several domains of the system: service delivery, workforce, financing, and quality of care management. Several main issues involved in the development of the emerging system are addressed, and relevant policy implications are presented in the paper.
Wu
Bei
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Center on Aging and Department of Community Medicine, West Virginia University, Morgantown 26506, USA. bwu@hsc.wvu.edu
Carter
Mary W
MW
Goins
R Turner
RT
Cheng
Chunrong
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