"Nong is good, happy to meet Nong!" "My old man is good, what about Nong?" Under the warm winter afternoon sun, at the Xiangjiadang Elderly Care Center in Jiaxing, Zhejiang Province, groups of elderly people greeted each other in Shanghai dialect, with a comfortable face.
In the more than 1,600-bed nursing care center, the elderly in Shanghai account for more than 60%, far exceeding the local elderly. Why choose off-site retirement? How to ensure that they live a "worry-free" life in a different place? Let's hear what the old people have to say.
After breaking through the medical "barriers", there is no worries
"A bed of 3500 yuan, including food and housing and nursing fees, my wife and I have a retirement salary of more than 15,000 yuan a month, living here is more than enough." 76-year-old Zhang Laobo calculated the account for the reporter, after coming to Jiaxing to live, the house in Shanghai was rented out, with a monthly rent of more than 6,000 yuan, so that it could save more than 10,000 yuan per month. ”
The "pension suite" where Uncle Zhang and his wife live has a total area of 48 square meters, with a separate bathroom, an open simple kitchen and a living room. Uncle Zhang said that after living in Shanghai all his life, he was accustomed to seeing high-rise buildings and busy traffic, and when he was old, he missed the quiet rural fields. "Eat well, live well, have a good environment, be in a good mood, and be in good health."
The proximity to Shanghai, the comfortable environment and the high cost performance are all deeply attracting the elderly people in Shanghai. After breaking through the medical "barriers", the elderly have no worries at all, and more and more people have taken the step of off-site pension.
"Previously, the elderly in Shanghai in the Elderly Care Center faced the problem of reimbursement difficulties. Outpatient medical treatment not only needs to advance funds first, but also needs to bring medical record cards, medical insurance cards, invoices and expense details to return to Shanghai for reimbursement. Ru Cailiang, chairman of Zhejiang Yiheyuan Health Care Group and vice president of Zhejiang Elderly Service Association, introduced that the implementation of the integration policy of medical settlement in different places in the Yangtze River Delta has brought good news to the elderly in different places.
In 2019, the civil affairs departments of Shanghai, Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Anhui signed a memorandum of cooperation on promoting the integration of the yangtze river delta region, and Jiaxing and Huzhou in Zhejiang became the first batch of pilots for the integration of regional pensions. Nowadays, medical institutions in Jiaxing, Huzhou and Shanghai have realized direct settlement of outpatient expenses in different places to solve the "worries" of the elderly in different places. At the same time, the elderly in Shanghai can also go to Jiaxing to apply for an old age card and enjoy the treatment of the local elderly in the same city.
Met and knew each other until they entered the marriage hall
Some Shanghai elderly people are willing to go out, how to attract Shanghai elderly people to "walk in" is also one of the topics of research in Zhejiang private pension institutions.
Jiaxing is located in the core areas of Shanghai, Hangzhou and Suzhou, with convenient transportation and a high level of quality of life, but it does not have the high cost of living in megacities. When Yiheyuan Elderly Care Center was founded, it was positioned as high quality and low price, but after opening, it was found that the occupancy situation was very unsatisfactory.
After investigation, Ru Cailiang found that in order to attract the elderly in Shanghai to Jiaxing for the elderly, it is first necessary to work service, so he positioned the nursing home as a hotel-style management, and provided the elderly with large, medium and small suites for choice; at the same time, equipped with its own hospital, medical care for the elderly 24 hours a day. The current Yiheyuan Elderly Care Center covers an area of 380 acres, with a beautiful environment, which can provide a full range of services such as eating, living, entertainment and medical treatment for the elderly.
After the nap, 84-year-old Hua Ren and 85-year-old partner Hong Baozhen will dance a ballroom dance, and the activity will be happy. The "twilight love" of the two old men is a good story in the center. They are all Shanghainese, who lived in the nursing home of Jiaxing Yiheyuan Elderly Care Center 7 years ago, and since then, they have met and known each other until they entered the marriage hall. "With this emotion, we have no regrets in our later years. We discussed, this is our home, we will stay here forever, never go again! Hong Baozhen said.
The cultivation of professional talents calls for speeding up again
"With the advancement of the integration of the Yangtze River Delta, the off-site pension is gradually maturing, but some policy bottlenecks still need to be broken, and the operating subsidies and construction subsidies for pension institutions can also be included in the integration consideration." For the future, Ru Cailiang has higher expectations.
Xu Jiazeng, president of the Zhejiang Elderly Service Association, said that Zhejiang has beautiful landscapes and is a feng shui treasure land for healthy and well-being. In recent years, many private capitals have entered the elderly health care project. At present, there are nearly 4,000 pension institutions in Zhejiang, of which private institutions account for 66%. In some places, there have been phased vacancies in beds. Through the integration of the elderly in the Yangtze River Delta, the elderly in the Yangtze River Delta can be attracted to Zhejiang for the elderly, the government can reduce the pressure of pension investment, and the pension institutions have increased the bed occupancy rate to achieve a win-win situation.
In addition, the national pension industry is currently facing the dilemma of talent shortage. To this end, the Zhejiang Department of Civil Affairs, the Department of Human Resources and Social Security, etc. cooperate with major colleges and universities to add a professional course of elderly care to the original medical and nursing professional curriculum, and these students can work in old-age service institutions in the future. "Now advocating common prosperity, the integrated pension in the Yangtze River Delta should look at the whole country." Taking Zhejiang as an example, we try to carry out talent training cooperation for provinces with relatively rich human resources, so as to achieve resource complementarity and development sharing. Xu Jiazeng said.
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