Abstract: Elderly care institution is a proper term for social elderly care, which refers to an institution that provides comprehensive services such as food and daily living, cleaning and hygiene, life care, health management, and cultural, sports and entertainment activities for the elderly.

It can be an independent legal entity, or it can be a department or branch affiliated with a medical institution, an enterprise or an institution, a social group or organization, or a comprehensive social welfare institution.

The main service targets of nursing homes are the elderly, but some nursing homes (such as rural nursing homes) also accept orphans and disabled children or disabled people within their jurisdiction.

The editor below will take you to understand the types and characteristics of nursing homes.

What are the types of elderly care institutions? What are the characteristics of elderly care institutions? Characteristics of elderly care institutions. Public welfare means "public interest".

Public welfare undertakings refer to departments, enterprises and their facilities that directly or indirectly serve public economic activities, social activities and residents' lives.

Public welfare enterprises refer to enterprises that directly involve services in the field of social welfare.

The vast majority of elderly care institutions in my country mainly provide assistance and assistance to the elderly in urban areas with "three noes", neglect of daily care, and the "five guarantees" in rural areas. Most of them do not have profit as their main purpose, so their public welfare characteristics are particularly obvious. .

Different from other services, elderly care service is a whole-person, full-service, and full-service service.

The so-called "whole-person" service means that elderly care institutions must not only meet the elderly's basic life care needs such as clothing, food, housing, and transportation, but also meet the elderly's medical care, disease prevention, nursing and rehabilitation, as well as spiritual, cultural, psychological and social needs.

; To meet the above needs of the elderly residents, it is necessary for all staff of the nursing home to work together. This is the so-called "all-staff" service; the vast majority of the elderly residents regard the nursing home as their final destination in life, starting from the day the elderly move in.

From the beginning, the staff of the elderly care institution must be prepared to accompany the elderly through the last mile of their lives. This is the so-called "full-course" service.

The average age of the elderly living in nursing homes is over 75 years old.

Aging and aging naturally make the elderly a high-risk group for accidental accidents, injuries, and sudden death from diseases.

In addition, the elderly care service industry is a high-risk industry with large investments, long return cycles, and fierce market competition.

If there is no market awareness, business awareness, and strict management and risk prevention mechanisms, the investment and operating risks of elderly care institutions will inevitably increase.

Li Liguo, Minister of the Ministry of Civil Affairs, pointed out when attending the National Social Elderly Care Service System Construction Work Conference that elderly care institutions should generally maintain a non-profit nature in terms of construction level and should not pursue high-end and luxury unilaterally; public elderly care institutions, in particular, must eliminate the phenomenon of high grades.

To avoid the issue of unfair distribution of social welfare, Li Liguo said that in the construction and operation of elderly care institutions, we must adhere to both standard construction and practical application.

In order to play a supporting role in the development of social elderly care services, the construction of elderly care institutions must not only comply with relevant standards and specifications, but also be based on practical application to achieve sustainable development.

Construction according to standards means that the construction of elderly care institutions must meet the standardized requirements for residential buildings for the elderly, social welfare institutions, nursing homes and community day care centers, and achieve standardized design, construction and management.

Practical application means that the construction of elderly care institutions must be based on reality, within our capabilities, and not exceed the level of economic and social development.

In terms of construction focus, priority should be given to the development of support-type and maintenance-type elderly care institutions; in terms of construction location, communityization should be promoted to facilitate the elderly to participate in social life and prevent beds from being left idle due to unreasonable site selection; in terms of construction scale, it is not simply

Pursue ultra-large scale to avoid inappropriately large elderly care institutions with low occupancy rates.

Li Liguo also required that the construction of elderly care service facilities should fully integrate and utilize existing resources, revitalize existing assets, and avoid blind development, duplication of construction, and waste of resources.

It is necessary to encourage the transformation of idle hospitals, enterprises, rural collective defense and various public training centers, activity centers, nursing homes, hotels, guest houses, etc. into elderly care service facilities through replacement or conversion of uses.

Types of nursing homes Nursing homes are set up in urban streets, rural towns, and village groups to support the elderly and disabled people with the "Three Nos" and "Five Guarantees" and to receive social foster elderly people to spend their old age peacefully. It has daily living, cultural and entertainment facilities.

, rehabilitation training, medical care and other service facilities.

Welfare homes are loving welfare homes established by the state, society and groups to help people in need and patients with diseases in society to provide them with food, clothing, accommodation or medical conditions.

They contribute their own strength to the harmony of society.

(1) Social Welfare Institute.

The main mission of the social welfare home is to adopt the "three no" elderly people in urban areas, orphans and disabled children, and abandoned babies, implement the work policy of raising, treating, and educating simultaneously, protect the legitimate rights and interests of vulnerable groups, and maintain social stability.

(2) Social welfare home for the elderly.

It is a social elderly care service institution that enjoys a certain amount of economic subsidies from the state and welcomes the elderly to spend their old age in peace. It has many service facilities such as daily life, culture and entertainment, and medical care.

Nursing homes Nursing homes mainly provide collective living for the elderly and have relatively complete supporting service facilities.

It is a social elderly care service institution specially set up to receive the elderly who take care of themselves or comprehensively receive the elderly who take care of themselves, assist the elderly, and provide care for the elderly to spend their old age. It has many service facilities such as daily life, culture and entertainment, rehabilitation training, and medical care.