Ministry of Civil Affairs: Guiding elderly care service institutions to develop community-supported home care through centralized operations.

On January 13th, the Ministry of Civil Affairs held a special press conference to introduce the relevant situation of the "Measures on Cultivating Entities for Elderly Care Service Operation and Promoting the Development of Silver Economy". Li Banghua, Director of the Elderly Care Service Department, stated at the meeting that the "Measures" propose to promote the market-oriented supply and demand alignment of elderly care services. By optimizing the supply of elderly care services and products suitable for the elderly, guiding elderly care institutions to develop community-supported home care through chain operation, supporting local areas, e-commerce platforms, large-scale supermarkets, etc., to expand and strengthen the coordination of supply and demand of elderly care service products, service demonstrations, industry guidance, resource linkage, etc., promoting more convenient and suitable online and offline elderly care service consumption.