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Promoting the Integration of Elderly Healthcare and Elderly Nursing: Evidence from the Chinese Government

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  • Mo Hu

    (School of Journalism and Communication, Nanjing Normal University, Nanjing 210024, China
    These authors contributed equally to this work.)

  • Zhiyuan Hao

    (School of Business and Management, Jilin University, Changchun 130012, China
    These authors contributed equally to this work.)

  • Yinrui Yin

    (School of Mathematics and Sciences, Nanjing Normal University, Nanjing 210046, China)

Abstract

The increase of the aging population in China and the rise of the concept of healthy aging have accelerated the transformation and upgrading of the traditional elderly nursing pattern. Nevertheless, there is a critical limitation existing in the current situation of China’s elderly care, i.e., the medical institutions do not support elderly nursing and the elderly nursing institutions do not facilitate access to medical care. To eliminate the adverse impact of this issue, twelve ministries and commissions of the Chinese government have jointly issued a document, i.e., the Several Opinions on Further Promoting the Development of Combining the Healthcare with the Elderly care (SOFPDCHE), to provide guidance from the government level for further promoting the integration of elderly healthcare and elderly nursing. Under this background, this paper constructs a healthcare–nursing information collaboration network (HnICN) based on the SOFPDCHE, proposing three novel strategies to explore the different roles and collaboration relationships of relevant government departments and public organizations in this integration process, i.e., the node identification strategy (NIS), the local adjacency subgroup strategy (LASS), and the information collaboration effect measurement strategy (ICEMS). Furthermore, this paper retrieves 484 valid policy documents related to “the integration of elderly healthcare and elderly nursing” as data samples on the official websites of 12 sponsored ministries and commissions, and finally confirms 22 government departments and public organizations as the network nodes based on these obtained documents, such as the National Health Commission of the People’s Republic of China (NHC), the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology of the People’s Republic of China (MIIT), and the National Working Commission on Aging (NWCA). In terms of the collaboration effect, the results of all node-pairs in the HnICN are significantly different, where the collaboration effect between the NHC and MIIT is best and that between the NATCM and MIIT is second best, which are 84.572% and 20.275%, respectively. This study provides the quantifiable results of the information collaboration degree between different government agencies and forms the optimization scheme for the current collaboration status based on these results, which play a positive role in integrating elderly healthcare and elderly nursing and eventually achieving healthy aging.

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  • Mo Hu & Zhiyuan Hao & Yinrui Yin, 2022. "Promoting the Integration of Elderly Healthcare and Elderly Nursing: Evidence from the Chinese Government," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 19(24), pages 1-18, December.
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