Ageing China, as one of the most
significant and profound social topics, has
sparked tremendous discussions in the
academic field. Facing the surging and
irreversible ageing trend, China is
promoting community-based eldercare
nationwide, which is widely named ‘the
last one kilometre’. Beijing has also made
its own attempts under national
guidance. This dissertation is to evaluate
Beijing’s practice through a mixed
methodology: horizontal comparative
review of Italy, the United States and
Japan’s relatively mature eldercare
system from a macro view and focus
group interviews of two chosen
communities in Beijing from a micro view
to generate a comprehensive analysis.
As a result, Beijing’s design can be
concluded as a three-levels eldercare
network with public-private partnership
(PPP) cooperation as the main pattern
under the leadership of the government.
Regarding the elderly people’s
perceptions, although price and family
as the most sensitive and valued aspects
of elderly people have been satisfied,
and most of them expressed positive
attitudes towards Beijing’s practice,
some of their demands present diverse
and non-uniform characteristics and are
hard-to-meet through unified design. In
the end, this dissertation suggests that
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sustainable eldercare and higher
prosperity for elderly people can be
achieved through grass-roots
empowerment and rent-seeking behavior
prevention. The contribution of this
dissertation is that it innovatively
combines macro theoretical analysis with
micro interviews, ensuring the
systematic, comprehensive and practical
value of the research, f illing the
academic gap and providing valuable
theoretical and methodological
references for future research.
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