Not only "enjoy" but also "enjoy" elderly life! This street creates an embedded community elderly care service circle
Hudong Xincun Street is a worker's new village community formed in the 1950s based on Hudong Shipyard, with 45% of the elderly aged 60 and above in the jurisdiction. In order to improve the sense of achievement and happiness of the elderly population, the street actively promotes the layout of elderly care service facilities in multiple locations in the south, middle, and north, and continuously puts efforts into "nurturing", "enjoying", and "enjoying". Currently, the "street specialized elderly care service circle" and "community embedded elderly care service circle" have been preliminarily formed.
"Update and Iteration" of Elderly Care Facilities
There is currently one comprehensive elderly service center and two public nursing homes in Hudong Xincun Street; 3 day care centers, 5 meal assistance points, and 32 community elderly activity rooms.
In recent years, the street has made adjustments and optimizations to the internal structure and functional layout of the comprehensive elderly care center, and has built a community elderly care complex that integrates short-term residential care, day care, home care, and family support, creating a hub for embedded elderly care services. After the renovation of Hudong Community Elderly Care Home and Zhujiamen Elderly Care Home, the service content covers five major areas: enjoying life, dietary health, spiritual culture, health management, and intelligent care, further improving the elderly suitability.
In order to ensure the safety, peace of mind, and comfort of the elderly, the street has built Lijin Road Meal Help, Comprehensive Elderly Service Center Meal Help, Liubu Road Community Elderly Canteen, and Hudong Road Meal Help, creating a "15 minute service circle" and forming a "5+1" Meal Help+Delivery model, with a daily supply of more than 1200 passengers. The community cafeteria continues to explore and integrate existing resources, expand and upgrade its "meal assistance+" function. During the closure period of the cafeteria, it actively provides various elderly care services such as health lectures, skill training, and elderly consultation, leveraging the cafeteria's spillover effect and creating a new elderly care service platform.
Continuously providing precise elderly care services
"Ala is old and still wants to live in his own house," is the heartfelt words of many elderly people in Shanghai. In recent years, the street has continued to deepen doorstep elderly care services and extend professional services to the community.
Not only will we continue to promote the five level community elderly care service facility network of "community comprehensive service circle - community elderly care service circle - residential area activity circle - neighborhood mutual aid circle - home life circle", but we will also provide comprehensive elderly care services that integrate meal assistance, day care, full care, and medical care. We also focus on the safety, convenience, and health needs of the elderly, and focus on carrying out aging friendly renovations around topics such as converting bathtubs into shower rooms, installing handrails on the edge of the toilet, and installing smart toilet covers, making life more convenient for elderly people with limited mobility. At present, more than 120 households have applied for aging friendly renovation, and more than 50 households have actually been completed, with subsidy funds of nearly 200000 yuan distributed.
In terms of building a cognitive friendly community, the street integrates resources from various parties such as neighborhood committees, enterprises and institutions, elderly service institutions, hospitals, banks and supermarkets to jointly build a cognitive friendly community. Continuously carry out cognitive science popularization to help the elderly understand early symptoms of cognitive impairment, prevention of cognitive impairment, and how to take care of elderly individuals with cognitive impairment.
Enhance the sense of achievement and happiness of the elderly
The continuous acceleration of population aging has put forward new requirements for promoting high-quality development of elderly care in Shanghai East. Various diversified and personalized elderly care service needs are constantly emerging, and the street takes the needs of the elderly as the fundamental goal, so that the elderly in Shanghai East not only "enjoy" but also "enjoy" their elderly life.
In this regard, the cooperation between the street and community health centers has made steady progress. Elderly care homes, day care centers, and elderly care homes have all signed joint construction agreements with the health service center. Professional doctors are dispatched to provide medical diagnosis, measurement, consultation, and chronic disease management services to the elderly in the institution every week. Medical diagnosis and convenient services for the elderly are launched every month, and free physical examinations are provided for the elderly in the institution every year.
In meeting the spiritual needs of the elderly, interest groups should be established, health lectures should be held, and cultural evening parties should be held to provide activity venues and necessary conditions for the elderly, enriching their later life. We continue to carry out the "Old Partner Program" and "Warm Shanghai East, Enjoy Home" as public welfare projects for the elderly, and do a good job in caring for more than 1200 elderly people living alone in pairs, so that the elderly population can feel love and care.
Text: Liu Yawen
*Reprinted from official WeChat account released by Pudong