System practice, experience and trends on the long-term care insurance of China: Based on a comparative study of Qingdao model and Nantong model / 中国卫生政策研究

ABSTRACT

The system of long-term care insurance,which is one supportive system for the increasing long-term care needs of the elderly in China will be the highlight for the construction of social security system during the 13th Five-Year Plan period.This paper focuses on the current background,models feature and system design of regional practice of long-term care insurance in Qingdao and Nantong,and makes a comparison between them.On the basis of the summarized experience and inspiration,and the existing problems as well as the experience in advanced countries,the author puts forward the corresponding suggestions,in the hope of providing valuable references for the toplevel design of the long-term care insurance system.