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1Department of Public Policy, City University of Hong Kong, Tat Chee Avenue, Kowloon, Hong Kong, SAR. wenyexie2-c@my.cityu.edu.hk.
Abstract:
An enormous challenge facing China is how to provide sustainable care for its rapidly-increasing elderly population. Its recent policy directives include three medical forms-the institution-cooperation-form, the institution-medical-form, and the family-physician-form-to integrate medical care into ordinary care for the elderly. This essay indicates that China will not be able to maintain sustainable elderly care unless it places emphasis on the family-physician-form that focuses on family physicians and the use of primary care services. The essay constructs arguments for this policy suggestion based on China's long-standing Confucian ethical resources of filial piety and family-based concerns for elderly care.
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