人口老龄化是21世纪中国社会经济发展中的重大国情。老年人群健康状态脆弱,对医疗服务需求高、资源消耗大。随着中国老年人口,特别是高龄人口数量的增加,全社会的康复与长期照护需求将会急剧增大。老年人群的卫生服务利用是影响老年人健康状况以及疾病发展转归的重要因素。在现有的医疗体系内建设老年医疗服务体系,建立老年健康支持系统,对于减缓人口老龄化对医疗需求和疾病负担的压力,实现健康老龄化具有重要意义。
<<Aging of the population is one of the major national situations that we have to face in the social and economic development of our country. The elderly are usually weak and vulnerable,and thereby ask a relatively high level of requirement for health service,and that health service would consume a lot of medical resources. With the increase of the elderly population,especially of the advanced aged people,the demand and requirement for rehabilitation and long-term nursing is,correspondingly,increased rapidly. The utility of the health service by the elderly is a tremendously crucial factor that would have great impact on their health situation and the prognosis of diseases. Within the current health system,establishing an elderly health service system and a health-supporting system especially for the elderly,is to have great significance not only in relieving the stress of the increasing demand of medication or disease burden produced by aging but also in realizing the healthy aging.
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