By Li Lan, Qian Cheng & Huang Jin, Research Team on “The Innovation-Based Cultivation of Human Resources for Elderly-Care Service in the Context of Population Aging”, Institute of Public Administration and Human Resources, DRC

Research Report, No.82, 2021 (Total 6147) 2021-4-8

Abstract: At present, the number of aged people is increasing swiftly in China, and accordingly the elderly-care service industry is developing with a strong momentum. However, the scale and quality of human resources supply in elderly-care service industry are hard to meet the needs of the industrial development, and neither could they realize the desire of the old people for a better life. In face of the stern aging trend in China, we need to promote the development of human resources in elderly-care service industry, which is not only an important measure to implement the national strategy for actively coping with the aging trend of the population, but also something inherent for building a moderately prosperous society in all respects. To build an adequate team of elderly-care service professionals with reasonable composition and fine quality, and in view of the problems of human resources development in China’s elderly-care service industry, this paper has raised the following policy options. Based on questionnaire survey results, interview notes with experts and field research findings, we need to strengthen the top-level design of human resources development in elderly-care service industry, innovate the institutional mechanism of professional personnel cultivation in elderly-care service industry, deepen the reform of vocational education in senior care colleges, enhance vocational training of professional personnel for elderly-care service, and improve the vocational development system of professional personnel in elderly-care service industry. It is hoped that these options could provide some reference for decision-making in making arrangements for the high-quality development of human resources in elderly-care service industry.

Keywords: elderly-care service industry, human resources, nursing personnel, policy options