新型冠状病毒肺炎疫情下养老机构面临的挑战——基于14个省份的调查分析

Challenges Emerged in the Outbreak of COVID-19 in the Nursing-home Setting-- A Cross-sectional Survey in China’s 14 Provinces

2019年底开始扩散的新型冠状病毒肺炎疫情,对中国公共卫生的防治提出严峻挑战。随着防控范围的扩大和防控力度的不断加强,封闭式管理的养老机构也面临更大的困境和挑战。作为老人坚实后盾和防疫屏障的养老机构也需要更多的社会支持。为了解疫情下养老机构运营困难及应对措施,对全国14个省份29家养老机构进行了问卷调查和电话访谈。在此基础上,参考欧美国家养老机构防治传染病暴发的措施,针对我国疫情下养老机构的问题,提出切实可行的政策建议。

The outbreak of COVID-19 at the end of 2019 is posing a serious challenge to the prevention and control of public health in China. With the expansion of the scope of prevention and control and its increasing intensity, the elderly care institutions with its closed-management also face greater difficulties and challenges. Serving as solid backing and epidemic barriers for the aged, the elderly care institutions also need increasing social support. To examine the operational difficulties and response measures of the elderly care institutions in the current epidemic context, a questionnaire survey, together with telephone interviews carried out in 29 elderly care institutions in 14 provinces and cities across the country, was conducted. In addition, referring to the measures for the prevention and control of infectious disease outbreaks in the elderly institutions in Europe and the United States, a set of practical policy proposals were presented to address problems of the elderly institutions in the current epidemic situation in China.