厦门市社区助老员制度的实践与思考

The Practice and Reflection on the System of Community Elderly Helpers in Xiamen

厦门市以政府购买服务方式,通过社区助老员制度,运用市场机制调节供需关系,优化居家和社区养老服务的市场结构、内容和布局,实现了专业养老服务深入基层,解决了社区居家养老服务“最后一百米”的难题。厦门市社区助老员制度对推进新时代居家和社区养老服务工作具有一定的启示:发挥社区的养老服务功能,创新社区养老服务方式,整合社区为老服务资源。

Xiamen employs government-purchased service and the system of community elderly helpers to efficiently regulate the supply and demand of elderly care services through market mechanisms.This approach helps optimize the market structure,content and layout of family-based and community elderly care services.It enables the professional elderly care services to penetrate into the grassroots level,thereby effectively addressing the"last 100 meters"issue of community and family-based elderly care services.The system of the community elderly helpers in Xiamen provides valuable insights for promoting community and familybased elderly care services in the new era,which include expanding services into communities,leveraging communities'elderly care functions,innovating community elderly care service models,and integrating community resources for elderly care services.