Standardizing Respite Sevice for the Aged in Zhejiang: An Action

Study

Hong Xu

,Shi Ming Tang

2,a*

, Chang Juan Guo

,and Wen Jie Ge

1234

Hangzhou Normal University, Hangzhou,Zhejiang, China

*Corresponding author

Keywords: Standardizing respite service, action study, Zhejiang story.

Abstract: This action study highlights the function of respite service in upgrading of these "helpless aged" to "self-

reliant ones" and "mutual support ones" and proves that respite service may facilitate family to enjoy low

stress status, high life satisfaction and better sense of well-being.

1 MISSION

This research efforts to clarify and develop home

standard pension respite services, it mainly include:

definition of old-age home respite care, home care

respite services work standards, home care respite

care assessment standards, home care respite care

personnel standards, classification standard of home

care respite care, home care respite care schedule at

home pension respite service training course.

It is focused on the completion of a

comprehensive well-off society of Chinese dream,

combined with the operative standard home care in

Europe and advanced experience in the United

States as well. It may support each other and

develop Chinese style of home care 9073 mode and

the 9064 mode, based on the basis of long-term care

at home and work, a set of standardized service

specification.

2 ACTION STUDY

The research difficulty is the establishment of home

respite services local standards which need to

compare the lessons, to summarize national

advanced concepts and methods in operation, to

analysis history and its data, to support large data

case, to integrate rehabilitation and health

management and life care long-term care work norm.

It also demands health insurance, pension and

nursing etc. insurance data collation, analysis,

calculation and inductive research, therefore to

determine the measurable scope of work, staff

quality and performance evaluation criteria etc.

Zhejiang Province, in recent years, efforts to

implement the home care respite services, and thus

meet the challenges in introducing a number of

policy support, providing first-hand

information,conducting work summary and

innovation from the grass-roots level, improving the

systematic mechanism for home care related respite

services, establishing a standardized system of work

standards prototype, and protecting the subject to

explore new and orderly development.

Recently, the research group in Hangzhou

conducts some home-based care services,promotes

some innovation cases for development, creates

some typical benchmark communities, including

Wang Ma, Xiao Ying. Before the implementation of

new normal professional volunteer service, the

multidisciplinary team of experts offers great

support to the protection of the local standard

verification effort.

The members of the project group from Australia,

Europe and the United States, Hong Kong and

Taiwan, especially in urban and rural areas of the

Yangtze River Delta contribute their successful

practice and experience in the work content,

classification mechanism, operation and service of

key fundamentals and the necessity of different

levels to protect the local standard which might be

effective for promotion.

Task group with the proposal of the two sessions

in wheezing services, the Hangzhou area survey and

the basic frame of local production and research in

Colleges and universities, provided precious support

through teamwork for related home care services

and Zhejiang stories on the Belt and Road people’s

connectivity and Zhejiang Hub Construction for the

Belt and Road..

3 ACHIEVEMENT

The subject completed the "Empty Nester service

guarantee mechanism and innovation", "home care

to solve the problems" and other issues, helping to

fill the blank intervention, psychological

intervention and emergency assistance, to grasp the

development and improve people's livelihood

window, won the national, provincial and municipal

demonstration of multiple awards.

Some overseas senior researchers helped to

complete the introduction of the EU, Japan, Hong

Kong and Taiwan and other professional standards,

to explore the respite care nurses, nursing staff,

nursing and other standardized and institutionalized

procedures and training mode, to connected the

central hospital to the community with the

implementation of medical training and occupation.

Other main research group researcher Wei Hua

(Melbourne), Zuo Xiaoming (Sydney) and Barbara

(Canberra) conducted a comparative studyandtied

the Hangzhou to Canberra in science and education

cooperation. Team leaders even constructed the

implementation hub for home care and respite

service exchange mechanism (Tang Shiming,

Barbara),

The action study helps a lot to solve the problem

of the operation and service of breathing space, to

promote the implementation of community respite

services and the evaluation of the results. Strain

aging, and maintain social stability work, to

establish a reasonable standard and evaluation

system for the further promotion and eventually to

effectively implement the policy of the party and the

government's pension supplement.

The formulation of local standards has a positive

and far-reaching impact on the implementation of

regional sustainable development, economic

innovation and harmony and stability.

Study of respite services turn crisis into

opportunity, promote the "occupation family trust",

"make it easy for the old man at ease", "work

efficiency", "sustainable development community let

happiness peace" warm, stable people and people.

Hangzhou City, Zhejiang Province, a typical

community respite service pilot for the data

collection base, service tracking base and training

base greatly promote the improvement of the quality

of community respite services.

4 SUGGESTIONS

Suggestion One: enhance the quality of life to avoid

the collapse of the family.

Respite service is related to a chronic illness or

disability of the elderly primary caregivers (mainly

children and nanny), in advance to do a short,

intermittent plan, so that the main caregivers have a

short rest of the service.

Compared with the nanny market, please aunt,

respite services provided by the team to support the

professional services, rehabilitation, care and

treatment for the elderly are very favorable. At the

same time, it is also the zero distance of the Opinion

Second (remote counseling and care), for the elderly

and the care of children play a role in professional

counseling.

Thus, survival of the elderly, especially elderly

dementia, disability groups will maximize the

professional care and treatment. Respite care can

significantly improve the quality of life of the

elderly population.

As a matter of fact, respite care could reduce the

burden of caregivers, to avoid a straw that breaks the

camel, avoid family members because of the

pressure of life, social burden and exhausted, leading

to collapse.

Suggestion Two: play active role to improve

people's livelihood and well-being

With the rapid development of China,these

bornon 50s and 60s become Boom Baby (baby

boom) and contribute population bonus. Respite

survey encourages the "yong and old partners help

ecah other" and transfer their positive self-service

into"self support" and "mutual pension",It is the best

platform. Respite services extended out of the "time

bank" and "Volunteer Recruitment", can be "square

dance aunt""burst tire" negative energy conversion

to become the old (old man) service of the positive

energy.

Comparing with the family caregivers who did

not use respite care, it was found that the family

caregivers who used the respite care had a low stress

state, improved life satisfaction, and increased well-

being. When the caregiver can not withstand the

pressure, if the timely external support and

assistance, will be able to reduce the burden of care.

Suggestion Three: construct the Belt and

Roadhub for people’s connectivity

In the perspective of social and political

economy, respite service is to protect the working

children at work, to protect the livelihood of the

people at ease pension, the people and the well-

being of the project. The research group, the French

tourism resort of nice, and pension research

institutions, research and the Swiss University of

Lugano campus aging research center shows that

political and economic promotion of respite services

can increase the massive jobs, create economic

growth pole.

It is worth noting that, giving fully support to the

needs of international cooperation, project team has

con form to the historical trend of

internationalization of city development in aged

cares, and is expected to combine new pension

model with Nice Franch Style of birds paradise,

Lugano Switzerland Style of pension model with

Zhejiang Chinese Style of respite service. It will

achieve complementary advantages in the global

society and promote the leading pension industry

and cooperation with the Zhejiang story for people’s

connectivity and Zhejiang hub for the Belt and Road.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

This paper was a particial achievement and

financially supported by the All-China Federation of

Returned Overseas Chinese Project (17DZQK203)

“Zhejiang Stories on the Belt and Road People’s

Connectivity” and the 4th Acadmic Conference

Project for Zhejiang Provincial Federation of Social

Sciences (Sub-forum 201830) “Zhejiang Hub

Construction for the Belt and Road”.

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