Open up blockages to promote the combination of medical and nursing care to promote healthy aging and guard the "sunset red"

Actively responding to the aging of the population is related to the overall development of the country and the well-being
of hundreds of millions of people.

Health management starts with paying attention to nutritional balance

Provide "health care" for 60-year-old people, "silver age care" for 80-year-old people, and "sunset care" for 100-year-old people.

"Longevity should not only be a longevity of natural age, but also a healthy and long life
with dignity.

"Among the population aged 60 and above in China, the young elderly population aged 60-69 accounts for 55.

Where should health management be carried out? Several experts pointed out that chronic diseases and infectious diseases should be started
.

"Chronic diseases are incurable, what we have to do is to stabilize it, maintain the normal functional state of the elderly's body, and let the elderly do what they want to do
.

It is worth noting that chronic diseases are closely
related to malnutrition.

Yu Kang, director of the Department of Clinical Nutrition of Peking Union Medical College Hospital, reminded that many elderly people eat food that is not only monotonous, but also this monotonous food is mainly vegetarian, and even rarely eats meat, consciously giving up eating meat, the result will be less because of the intake of high-quality protein, less raw materials that constitute muscle, which makes the decay of muscle in many elderly people accelerate
.

Malnutrition in the elderly can lead to a series of serious consequences
such as sarcopenia, debilitating syndrome in the elderly, and disability.

The combination of medical and nursing care accurately meets the needs of differentiated services

Walking into the riverside community canteen in Chengde City, Hebei Province, 6 tables are clean and tidy, and the table is full of paper drawers, wet wipes, toothpicks, and spices
.

Many elderly people said that their greatest wish is to enjoy life care, housekeeping services, medical care, spiritual comfort and other services
at their doorstep.

"Based on this reality, the Guiding Opinions regard the development of integrated medical and nursing services in the home community as the primary goal, and clarify the two key tasks
of actively providing home medical services and enhancing the capacity of community medical and nursing care services.

The "Guiding Opinions" highlight the health as the center, emphasize the family doctor contract service as the starting point, and highlight the comprehensive and continuous service of the combination of medical care and nursing care through the integration of prevention, medical treatment, health care, nursing, health management, and health promotion
.

Wang Haidong, director of the Department of Aging of the National Health and Health Commission, said that the combination of medical and nursing care is deeply welcomed by the elderly, and in recent years, the National Health Commission and relevant departments have deeply promoted the integration of medical care and elderly care and achieved positive results
.

In recent years, the National Health Commission has deepened the reform of "decentralization and management of services" and optimized the approval and registration process
of medical and nursing care institutions.

As the first expert member of the National Committee on Aging, Ding Yuanzhu, a professor at the Department of Social and Ecological Civilization of the Party School of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (National School of Administration), has always been concerned about
promoting the integration of medical care and elderly care.

"Building a strong social support system is of great significance
to promoting the integration of medical care and old-age care in the home community.
" Ding Yuanzhu said that excavating the value of families and communities, on the one hand, meets the needs of China's elderly health and old-age services, so that the elderly can communicate and interact with their families and neighbors in a familiar family and community environment; On the other hand, medical security will be incorporated into the family community old-age service system, so that the elderly can obtain timely and effective medical services, and facilitate the elderly and their families
.

In order to better serve the elderly population, Wang Haidong introduced that the National Health Commission will deepen the co-construction and sharing of medical and nursing resources, rationally arrange continuing medical institutions such as rehabilitation hospitals, nursing homes, and hospice care institutions, and improve the medical and nursing cooperation mechanism
.
Encourage rural areas to achieve the integration of medical care and nursing care through various means such as adjacent construction, contract cooperation, and integration
of the two hospitals.
Increase the supply of integrated medical and nursing services in
the home community.
Improve the quality of medical and nursing care services, implement the standards and norms for the integration of medical and nursing care, carry out the continuing education of medical and nursing care practitioners, and implement demonstration projects for the integration of medical and nursing care, so that the elderly can obtain high-quality, efficient and convenient medical and nursing services
.

(Han Songyan, comprehensive arrangement)

China Food News(2022.
09.
28.
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(Editor-in-charge: Han Songyan)