"Healthy China 2030 Planning Outline" puts forward that we should focus on popularizing healthy life, optimizing health services, improving health protection, building a healthy environment and developing health industries, integrate health into all policies, ensure people's health in an all-round and full-cycle way, greatly improve health level and significantly improve health equity. The aging degree in China is getting heavier and heavier, and there are more and more disabled and demented elderly people. Among them, 96% patients need long-term care and nursing, so elderly health care and management professionals will surely become urgently needed talents in society.
Health care and management for the elderly mainly include medical care and services for the elderly. Among them, medical care for the elderly is the most important aspect of health care and management for the elderly, and its main contents include disease treatment and rehabilitation care for the elderly.
Old-age care services mainly include life care and medical care for the elderly. Social work for the elderly pays attention to social integration and mental health of the elderly, including social integration and psychological counseling for the elderly.
In the employment direction of health care and management for the elderly, medical and health care institutions for the elderly, pension service institutions and community service centers are the main employment directions. In these institutions, the main responsibilities of the elderly health care and management personnel include arranging and coordinating the medical and pension services for the elderly.