Pick up the New Year ｜ How to deal with the trend of population aging in my country?Cover news of the National Health and Health Commission

A few days ago, the Central Propaganda Department launched the "China Ten Years of Ten Years · Series Theme Release". The column of the cover news "Picking the Year" will pay attention to the whole process, reporting to China's achievements and changes in the past decade.

Cover Journalist Dai Rui Shao Meng

On September 7, the Propaganda Department of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China held a press conference on the development of health and health undertakings since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China. Wang Haidong, the director of the Department of Old Health and Health of the National Health and Health Commission, said in a question from the questioning reporter of the cover that during the "14th Five -Year Plan" period, my country will be committed to establishing and improving health education, prevention of health care, disease diagnosis and treatment The "six -in -one" comprehensive continuous and continuous elderly health service system covering urban and rural areas has effectively enhanced the health of the elderly.

Wang Haidong, the director of the National Health and Health Commission. Picture source: Guoxin Office

Wang Haidong introduced that there are several distinctive characteristics of the population aging in my country: there are many elderly population, the speed of aging process is fast, the aging urban and rural differences and regional differences are large, and the task of responding to the aging of the population is heavy. Especially during the "Fourteenth Five -Year Plan" period, our country will enter from mild aging to moderate aging, which is an important window period.

He pointed out that "healthy aging" is a means and way to respond to the lowest cost of population aging and the best benefits. During the "Fourteenth Five -Year Plan" period, the National Health and Health Commission will focus on several aspects of work in accordance with the requirements of the "Fourteenth Five -Year Plan" health aging planning.

The first is to do a good job of preventing health care for the elderly. Continue to carry out health China -the elderly's health promotion actions, and continuously improve the health literacy of the elderly. The National Health and Health Commission also should also carry out four major actions: elderly oral health, improvement of nutritional nutrition, dementia prevention, and psychological care for the elderly. The purpose is to improve the ability of the elderly to take the initiative and health, so that the elderly can get sick, get sick late, and do not have serious illness.

The second is to do a good job of medical services for the elderly. The National Health and Health Commission will continue to promote the establishment of senior medical department in comprehensive hospitals above the second level. This proportion will reach more than 60%in 2025. At the same time, we must strengthen the construction of rehabilitation hospitals and nursing hospitals, and vigorously build the elderly friendly medical and health institutions, implement measures to facilitate medical treatment for the elderly, and effectively facilitate the elderly to see a doctor.

The third is to do a good job of long -term care services for the elderly for the elderly. my country has 40 million disability and some disabled elderly people, and their care for them is just needed. Therefore, we must do a good job in the health assessment of the elderly for the elderly, and provide them with long -term care services from professional institutions to full -chain from the home community. In particular, the medical services sink to the community and home, and effectively reduce the burden of these disabled elderly families and the burden of the whole society.

The fourth is to continue to advance the combination of medical care. The combination of medical care and nursing is popular with the elderly. In the next step, the National Health and Health Commission will further promote the integration of pension service resources and medical resources, further expand the supply of medical and nursing combination services, enhance the quality of medical and nursing services, strengthen the combination of medical and nursing services, In the end, the team must establish a integrated health care service system combining homes, communities, and institutions.

Fifth, strengthen the protection of elderly health. Strengthen the development of disciplines in the field of elderly health, cultivate talent teams in the field of elderly health, improve the standards and norms in the field of elderly health, and strengthen the development of elderly health science and technology and industrial development.

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