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Home care for the elderly is a type of service where the government and social forces rely on the community in order to provide life care, help with home management, medical care and mental comfort for the elderly people who live at their homes. Home care for the elderly is, overall, still in the initial stage - size of service facilities for the elderly is still relatively small, their grade low, functions simple, inadequate to provide for the daily-increasing material and cultural needs of the elderly. Therefore, issues of the development of home care for the elderly and their research are an important topic because of both their theoretical significance and their practical values.
This paper/thesis* begins with the analysis of the concept of home care for the elderly and the difficulties it faces, pointing out that its strenghtening is an objective request to adapt to the issues of population aging and an indispensable supplement for building a complete social security system for the elderly. I have analysed and expounded principal forms of the home care for the elderly, its advantages and essential problems, etc. and addressing the current situation in Shanghai suggested measures and policies for alleviating and solving the main issues of the home care for the elderly.
*如果你写的是硕士/博士论文，那应该写thesis，一般研究论文的话，那就是paper。