Community Care——A New Solution to Urban Elderly Support
China has been an aging nation while economy and social security are still not well prepared.Owing to dwindling household,longer longevity and increasing work pressure of caregivers,the 4-2-1 inverted pyramid-shape family structure greatly impacted support-parents-at-home pattern.The problems related to urban elderly support protrude especially the elderly's care and needs.The thesis aims at a comparison of three patterns:family elderly support,organizational elderly support community care and their respective pros and cons,attempting to advance a community based elder-support pattern.