Social Care encompasses activities aimed at providing retirees from enterprises and public institutions with tailored services other than benefit payments. These services may include help with daily life tasks in the home, social activities aimed at the stimulation and active participation of the retired, and residential care for those with no relatives and in need of both social and medical support. The demand for social care is likely to increase rapidly with the ageing population and the phenomenon of empty nests; those households which do not have the benefit of support from children are estimated to represent more than half of China’s retired population.
Social care can be financed under regular pension schemes but also can be promoted using tax payments or private insurance models paid for by the individual.
Among current social care-related issues in China are questions of identifying the needs of poor people who are not able to care for themselves, the development of tailored services at community level including day care and self-help services, their integration with services for other non-enterprise retirees and the long term financing of social care.
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