Changing roles in long-term care service for elderly population in urban China — A case study of welfare mix in Qingdao
Start Date
26-3-2021 12:00 PM
End Date
26-3-2021 12:15 PM
Description
The care of the fragile elderly has increasingly become a social problem that needs collective intervention under rapid ageing. The long-term care insurance system, as one of the most typical institutional arrangements internationally, has been piloted in China since 2016. Qingdao is the first city in China to explore and implement social long-term care insurance targeted for elder people and summarised as a unique welfare model by the Chinese central government and academia. The introduction of the long-term care insurance system has changed the non-institutionalised picture of traditional elderly care services to a certain extent, and reshaped the relationship between the government, the market, and the family in the elderly care services. This study analyses the welfare mixed model development in Qingdao city through conceptual dimensions developed from welfare mix economy and social welfare analysis framework, including service coverage, service content, service provision, service financing, and service regulation combing from a longitudinal perspective of historicism. This study uses qualitative research methods including administrative text and literature analysis, and conducts interviews with local political elites as well as stakeholders to explain the characteristics and influencing factors of Qingdao welfare model.
Recommended Citation
Tian, Z., & Lou, S. (2021, March). Changing roles in long-term care service for elderly population in urban China — A case study of welfare mix in Qingdao. Presented at the Postgraduate Conference on Interdisciplinary Learning: Re-Imagining Postgraduate Studies in the 21st Century and Beyond. Lingnan University, Hong Kong.
Changing roles in long-term care service for elderly population in urban China — A case study of welfare mix in Qingdao
The care of the fragile elderly has increasingly become a social problem that needs collective intervention under rapid ageing. The long-term care insurance system, as one of the most typical institutional arrangements internationally, has been piloted in China since 2016. Qingdao is the first city in China to explore and implement social long-term care insurance targeted for elder people and summarised as a unique welfare model by the Chinese central government and academia. The introduction of the long-term care insurance system has changed the non-institutionalised picture of traditional elderly care services to a certain extent, and reshaped the relationship between the government, the market, and the family in the elderly care services. This study analyses the welfare mixed model development in Qingdao city through conceptual dimensions developed from welfare mix economy and social welfare analysis framework, including service coverage, service content, service provision, service financing, and service regulation combing from a longitudinal perspective of historicism. This study uses qualitative research methods including administrative text and literature analysis, and conducts interviews with local political elites as well as stakeholders to explain the characteristics and influencing factors of Qingdao welfare model.