Analysis on the win-win development of family doctors to promote the combination of healthcare and elderly care

Abstract

The innovative healthcare plus elderly care model is a major move for China to combat population aging. Given its initial success, there still exist challenges in the systems and economic conditions, for which family doctors can play a key role as population health " gatekeepers" . From the perspective of supply-side reform, this paper analyzed the current progress and challenges in this regard, and proposed a win-win mode. This mode combined the advantages of the family doctor system to optimize the community-based healthcare and elderly care as well as aging care resources.Family doctors are centered to build a community elderly care supply mode, to promote mutual development of primary medical institutions and the elderly-healthcare sector in China. Key words: Physicians, family; Healthcare plus elderly care; Supply-side reform; Integration; Win-win mode