The difference between apartments for the elderly and nursing homes

The difference between apartments for the aged and nursing homes;

The apartment for the elderly is an apartment-style residence serving the elderly. It has a service system of catering, sanitation, culture and entertainment, and medical care. It is a comprehensive management residence. Old-age housing not only embodies home-based old-age care, but also enjoys various services provided by society, which belongs to the category of institutional old-age care. Apartments for the elderly are very common in major cities in China, and Changzhou Jingri Ankang apartment for the elderly is more prominent, with low, medium and high grades.

Nursing homes mainly provide collective housing for the elderly, and the supporting service facilities are relatively perfect. As one of the social ways of providing for the aged, the nursing home meets the needs of the elderly for life care, nursing rehabilitation and spiritual care because of its specialization and humanistic culture.

Most of the nursing homes are private institutions for the aged, which are self-financing commercial services. The apartments for the elderly are unit buildings built by the government and social forces according to market principles for the elderly to live in. The unit area in the unit building is large or small, and residents can buy or rent it. There are clinics, activity rooms, gyms, barbershops and various service personnel in the apartment building for the elderly.

The similarity between apartments for the elderly and nursing homes lies in that both of them are mainly based on individual contributions, which are different from welfare relief social welfare institutions; The difference is that the nursing home is a way to provide collective accommodation for the hospitalized elderly, while living in an apartment for the elderly is a way to provide independent living units for the elderly at home; Units in apartments for the elderly can be bought, sold and rented, while rooms in nursing homes can only be rented.