Development and allocation of regional elderly care resources based on the service needs / 中华全科医师杂志

ABSTRACT

Objective To develop and allocate regional elderly care resources based on local service needs.Methods From February 2016 to May 2016,a face-to-face questionnaire survey was conducted to measure the elderly care service needs among residents over 60 years of age in Malu Township of Shanghai Jiading District.A telephone survey on the old-age care resources in Malu Township was carried out in November 2016.The demarcation of the aged care service needs was considered according to the resource classification from supplier side and the needs scores from the demander side.Kappa consistency test was used to compare the current care setting and the care setting matched to the real needs on the basis of the demarcation criteria.Results The results of the demarcation showed that 8 old-aged with score ≥ 44.5 in the survey (0.2％) should have the skilled nursing facility-based care;218 with the score of 24.1 to 44.4 (5.1％) should have the welfare institution-based care;60 with score of 23.2 to 24.0 (1.4％) should have elderly home-based care;72 with scores of 22.1 to 23.1 (1.7％) should have the community-based care;3 954 with score ≤ 22.0 (91.6％) should have home-based care.The consistency between the status of current care setting and the care setting matched to the real needs based on the demarcation criteria was poor (Kappa=0.092,P＜0.01).Conclusions This study sets a grading criterion for the service objects of the various aged care services in Malu Township,and provides a basis for the orderly,rational and fair distribution of the regional old-age care service resources.However,the current resource allocation in the region is not accurately matched to the real needs,the problem should be solved with the application of the demarcation criterion.