On July 12th, the Silver industry Research Team of Beijing Guohong Public Governance and Policy Research Institute released its China Silver Industry Development Report Q2 2016 in Beijing. It is pointed out in the report that the Chinese silver industry is breaking through the traditional model of family-supported elderly care and expects to see great opportunities for its development.
The People’s Government of Guangdong Province recently published the Opinions on Implementation of Work to Promote Integration of Medical and Health Services and Elderly Care Services (“the Opinions”), encouraging social forces to set up establishments that combine both medical and elderly care services. All elderly care establishments must provide medical and health services, and implement the policy of expanding the coverage of basic medical securities to cover some medical and rehabilitation programs such as comprehensive limb training for hemiplegic patients, recognition and cognition function rehabilitation training, assessment of daily living abilities, etc.