American community endowment glance

Some time ago to go to the states to see settled in Los Angeles, the daughter of understanding and view the United States the way the community endowment patterns. Though the United States has good retirement pension system, but old age of the loneliness of but not living on social security system can solve, so "community endowment" concept in the United States be recognized and promotion.daughter said, before the old man in the United States, and more than 60% of nursing home to live; And now, more and more American old man like in the community endowment.American community endowment cent two kinds of model, one is "QuanTuoZhi", that is, the old man in the endowment institutions all life. It is divided into "a retirement home" and "home sharing". The former in addition to lease houses (senile apartment) outside, also provide repast, cleaning the room, traffic and social activity convenient service.The typical facilities and services and: the clinic, library, computer room, gymnasium, laundry, emergency call system, go out shopping, organizations to participate in social activities, the service standard not less than a four-star hotel. The latter is community will be 60 or older, age group, and similar are interested in sharing a house to hit it off for the premise of personal execution and mate, they are looking for partners with each other, "caravans endowment", in order to solve the lonely life and inconvenience, let later in life they can fully enjoy friendship. 2 it is "half" system ", namely the old man in the day endowment institutions life, the evening to return to their home. This "half" system "I'm more interested in, so they let daughter take me to visit a such institutions.This is the community of a private pension center, located in Los Angeles suburb, center covers an area of about 1000 square meters, and the upper and lower two floors, and center director is a kind of middle-aged women, she told us said, every day, there are 40 old people here activities, in the evening most old people by their family home. The first floor is a center main function activity area, were divided into the living room, reading room, skills room, room, equipment room, the nurse, kitchen, old flower bed, etc. Living room is the old man temporary rest place, each room there was a single bed, clean and neat, and common life items, hanging on the wall mural, table with blooming flowers, appear very sweet. The reading room for the old man special subscribed to a lot of books and magazines, old people spare time in this newspaper reading a book to kill time.And here is for old people online computer, besides reading a newspaper, old people can also search the Internet in here the content they are interested in. Center staff every organization of old people in this painting, prepare manual products, clip art, do small handicraft.the nurse is for the old people do physical therapy of place, the doctor is a hospital retirees, that liqi. Here filled up with old people commonly used drugs and medical devices, liqi work each day is for each old man measure blood pressure, arrange the old people regularly take drugs and record their physiological health changes every day.Discount sunglasses Equipment room with all kinds of fitness equipment put light, for old people in daily physical training.
When we asked him about the center of the pension funds and to charge this sensitive issue, open to the center director told us, here is the funds to the federal government for CMS, CMS review after passing the federal government to give certain funds funding, and at the same time, the center can accept the donation of the society, the federal tax official by the program by the donation after verification and correct in duty front row. As for charging, no specific standards, completely according to each of the applicant's is the economic conditions and decide.center director said, here's a half the old people pay cost have high low, so quite cheap. This is usually the difference between the middle with social donation part and the federal government provides for the funds.