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At present, people's perception of pension service work is gradually changing, but there are still problems in the industry, such as lack of professional talents, poor team stability, and serious brain drain. In this regard, professionals pointed out that the key is to solve the problems of low income and insufficient room for growth.
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Filming jokes, starting live broadcasts, and professional young people joining, breaking people's stereotypes about nursing homes and elderly care services.
The trend of aging is unstoppable, the demand for pension service talents is increasing, and pension institutions also need more professional forces to join. What does the pension service industry do to retain professionals?
It's a job that's both professional and fulfilling."
Assisting, bathing, defecating, measuring blood sugar, measuring blood pressure, and doing work related to eating, drinking, and sleeping for the elderly every day. Xiaolan, who studied at a vocational school in Daxing, Beijing, is currently interning in a nursing home in Wangjing.
In nursing homes, nursing staff are the main workhorse. They are mainly made up of "4050" personnel and professionals like Xiaolan. "4050" personnel are responsible for part of the basic life care, cleaning and other work, while young people are in their early twenties and graduated from vocational colleges and universities majoring in elderly service and management or nursing and so on.
When I first chose to major in nursing at the College of Geriatric Welfare, my parents were hesitant. They feel that elderly care is about serving people, and the reputation is not good. Xiaolan said that during their time at the school, they learned professional knowledge such as biochemistry, anatomy, disease, and geriatric care, and also received practical training in drug application, care operation, first aid knowledge, wound treatment and other operations.
Unlike model training in schools, the physical condition and personality of the elderly in nursing homes are different. As a result, most of the young people who work in nursing homes have to start from the front line.
After spending two months with the old people, Xiaolan felt the expected hardship, but also unexpected surprises. "There is an elderly man with amnesia in his 90s, who went from not looking at me at the beginning to being able to call out my name accurately every day, and at that moment, I felt that this was a professional and fulfilling job. Xiaolan said.
In nursing homes, it's not just the bodies of the elderly that need to be taken care of. The participation of professional young people has enriched the lives of the elderly a lot.
Gesture dancing, going to the market, getting a manicure, perming ......The reporter recently walked into an apartment for the elderly in Laiguangying Town, Beijing, and Li Pingping, the person in charge of the activity, was arranging the day's elderly enjoyment activities.
With young people, there are many firsts in life. Like nail art, I couldn't have painted red nails on my hands before, but this time I tried to do it, and I quite liked it. One grandmother happily said that being with the young caregivers was like being with her own grandchildren.
The sense of social identity is improved, but the pay is low and the intensity is high.
At the age of 21, he entered the pension industry, and 9 years have passed, and Li Ping has grown from an intern to the head of a pension institution. She found that with the change of society's perception of the elderly care service industry, the situation that some people looked down on elderly care workers in the past is changing, "People are more and more recognizing the elderly care work and knowing that we provide professional elderly care services." ”
Recalling when he first entered the elderly care service industry, Li Pingping said, "At that time, there were more than 100 beds in the nursing home, and we young people in their early twenties were taking care of them, feeding the elderly, changing diapers, turning over, and sometimes they would lose their temper. ”
In Li Pingping's view, this job is not glamorous, and she has also been confused about it.
In terms of income, Li Pingping took Beijing as an example, the internship salary of elderly care workers is generally less than 2,000 yuan, and the monthly salary of regular employees is mostly 4,000 yuan and 5,000 yuan, including food and accommodation.
Not long ago, the "China Statistical Yearbook 2023" published by the National Statistics Department showed that in 2022, the average annual salary of urban non-private units in Beijing was nearly 2090,000 yuan, the average annual salary of urban private units is nearly 1050,000 yuan.
In addition, the work of nursing homes is divided into day and night shifts. "The night shift is particularly hard, because some dangerous situations are prone to occur at night, such as the elderly falling, choking, falling into bed, and acute lesions such as cerebral infarction and heart failure. Li Ping said.
We have two classes of pension service and management, 80 graduates, and less than 10 people are engaged in this major. Everyone has changed careers. Li Ping said.
In the interview, several interns admitted that what they most want to do is pension management or administrative work, "but at present, the managers of pension institutions are basically done from caregivers." No matter how well a young person who has just graduated learns, it is unrealistic to manage it directly, and he is not convinced by the public. ”
If I work as a front-line nurse for two years, I can persevere, but if I do it for another four or five years, it is difficult for me to say whether I can persevere. Because even if you go to the position of team leader and supervisor, you still have to do a lot of basic work. Li Ping often said to young people who have just entered the industry that when entering the pension service industry, they must at least be prepared to endure hardships in the front-line nursing position for the first three years.
The key is to solve the problem of low income.
The reporter interviewed and found that at present, the pension service industry has difficulty in recruiting, insufficient pension care professionals, poor team stability, serious brain drain, and the willingness of talents trained by colleges and universities to enter the pension service industry is not strong.
Recently, the "2023 Survey and Research Report on the Occupation Status of Elderly Care Workers" released at the 3rd Caregiver Festival hosted by the China Association for the Development of Aging Undertakings pointed out that the elderly population aged 60 and above in China reached 2With 6.4 billion people, the demand for elderly care services is imminent, and the training of elderly care talents is becoming more and more urgent.
Through research, Zheng Gongcheng, president of the Chinese Social Security Association and professor of Chinese Renmin University, found that although the pension service industry has developed to a certain extent, the overall lagging situation has not changed. Among the many constraints, the low income of nursing staff is the root cause of unstable workforce, insufficient staffing and poor service.
Zheng Gongcheng believes that in order to reverse this lagging situation, the key is to solve the problems of insufficient personnel, unstable contingent, and low service quality due to low income. He called for strengthening the material foundation of elderly care services and setting up a salary subsidy mechanism for caregivers, including increasing financial investment and accelerating the establishment of a nursing insurance system.
At present, the aging population is accelerating, and policies have been introduced in various places to encourage young people to work in the pension service industry. In Beijing, Shanghai, Shenzhen and other places, entry subsidies are issued to elderly care workers. In Beijing, for graduates who enter the pension service institutions to engage in full-time pension services, they will be rewarded according to the standard of 60,000 yuan for bachelor's degree or above, 50,000 yuan for junior college (higher vocational), and 40,000 yuan for secondary vocational.
At present, there is a shortage of elderly care workers, and it is necessary to broaden channels from all aspects, such as through school-enterprise cooperation and counterpart cooperation, to train talents to support the development of elderly care service institutions. Dou Xuewei, a teacher at the School of Labor Relations and Human Resources of the China Institute of Labor Relations, suggested that a better working environment, better salary and a smoother career promotion channel should be used to attract more professional young people to engage in elderly care services.
Today, Li is also responsible for the agency's recruitment efforts. Her feeling is that there is a lot of room for development in this industry, "If you have a love for pension work and are willing to persevere, young people are still very promising in this industry." ”