中國社會福利社會化背景下政府購買社區養老服務模式: 廣州經驗

Under the context of welfare privatization/socialization ,the government and social organizations had made efforts to promote the development of community care for the elderly in mainland China, but the service quality varies across areas and the overall situation is unsatisfactory in several respects: the shortage of funding from the government, the absence of non-government organization participation, the limited number of beneficiaries, the overlap of service, the ignorance of old people’s psychological and emotional demands, the inefficiency of service information delivery, and the challenge of traditional value of keeping personal problem as a secret. Through documenting community-based care policies for the elderly and analyzing Guangzhou’s case of providing community-based service for the elderly in the process of contracting out public service, this article explores the mechanism affecting community service provision for the elderly, with some thoughtful implications about the construction of holistic care model under the context of China.