Jiuyuan Community Health Education Popularization Base has listed elderly apartments to support the health service strategy for the elderly population | Health | Community
On June 8th, the Community Health Education Science Popularization Base of the Ninth People's Hospital Affiliated to Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine was unveiled and established. It is understood that the community health education popularization base is a comprehensive health promotion service project that mainly targets the elderly population, integrating health popularization and medical services. Zhang Jun, Deputy Secretary of the Party Committee of the Ninth Academy, and Qin Fang, Deputy General Manager of Affinity Source Group Co., Ltd., jointly unveiled the plaque for the base.
Zhang Jun introduced that the construction of the community health education science popularization base is another innovative measure of Shanghai Ninth People's Hospital in the fields of health promotion and community education volunteer service. In the future, based on the health needs of the elderly population in the community, the Ninth Hospital will actively leverage its disciplinary advantages, organize experts from all disciplines to enter the community, carry out volunteer services such as medical examinations, free consultations, and health education, and organically integrate the traditional virtues of respecting and caring for the elderly into the entire process of health promotion hospital construction.
Qin Fang introduced that the average age of the members and residents in the Affinity Source Elderly Apartment has reached 81.5 years old, and the demand for medical resources is increasing year by year. Establishing a health education and science popularization base is crucial for the apartment. Aiyuan Elderly Apartment will fully support the co construction of the Jiuyuan Community Health Education Science Popularization Base.
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Both parties will organize the apartment health secretary team to carry out health education and training programs such as "Nine Hospitals have doctors to speak" and "Nine Hospitals e-School", to enhance the apartment secretary team's own health knowledge reserves and medical emergency capabilities, and better serve elderly members.
In recent years, the aging process of China's population has been accelerating. With the comprehensive implementation of the Healthy China strategy, the concept of healthy aging has been deeply popularized. The health literacy of the elderly population has generally improved, health concepts have been rapidly updated, and the level of health needs continues to rise. How to better meet the health needs of the elderly and provide good health services for the elderly population has become a common concern of all sectors of society.
Wang Tong, Deputy Director of the Office of the Shanghai Health Promotion Committee and Director of the Health Promotion Department of the Shanghai Health Commission, introduced that Shanghai Ninth People's Hospital has taken the lead in piloting the construction of a community health education science popularization base. It is guided by the high-quality living needs of the elderly population in the new era, working together to create a new model of urban elderly care health promotion services that integrates medical and preventive measures, helping to strengthen community health education, create a supportive environment for health, and effectively shoulder the social responsibility of public hospitals.
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After the unveiling ceremony, a multidisciplinary team of experts from the orthopedics, ophthalmology, cardiovascular medicine, urology, neurology, endocrinology, geriatrics, and other departments of the Ninth Hospital provided free medical services for elderly apartment residents.