Abstract:The elderly care needs assessment is critical to decide the elderly care needs, care levels and provided services. The third agency has gradually been introduced to evaluate the elderly care needs in China. The diversified instruments and criterions are used to assess the physiological health, cognitive level, social support and illness factors for the elderly care needs in different provinces and cities, which provides the evidences to allot long-term nursing insurances and government subsidies. However, there are many limitations in the present assessment, such as one-side evaluation, substandard instruments, single evaluation and the implementation of elderly care without basing on evaluation effects. The internationally reliable instruments and their apply results are introduced in the study, aiming to prompt these instruments to be used in our country and fitted Chinese culture, develop the Chinese evaluation criterions in the elderly care needs assessment, perfect the evaluation protocol of the third agency, decide the certificate of evaluation staff, and accurately identify the elderly care needs. The elderly care needs are be classified and stratified on the basis of needs data, which the targeted elderly care protocol will be developed, the accurate elderly care resources will be provide, and the quality of life for the elderly will be improved.
程蕾. 国内外养老需求评估实践现状比较及其启示[J]. 中国医药导报, 2019, 16(15): 153-156.
CHENG Lei . Comparison of the practice status based on domestic and oversea the elderly care needs assessment and its correlated enlightenment. 中国医药导报, 2019, 16(15): 153-156.