The city plans to arrange funds to support the renovation of families for the elderly
Recently, the Beijing Municipal Development and Reform Commission solicited public opinions on the "Implementation Plan on Strengthening Design Services to Promote Age-Appropriate Transformation and Industrial Development (Trial)" (hereinafter referred to as the Consultation Draft). The draft for comments proposes that by 2025, we will strive to complete high-quality age-appropriate transformation in hundreds of streets and tens of thousands of households in the city, forming "100 streets and 10,000 households". At the same time, it is planned to provide financial support for the use of existing community service spaces or other idle spaces in the streets to build public model rooms for the elderly and home renovation projects for the elderly.
The plan focuses on the needs of the elderly for age-appropriate transformation, supports design units to carry out assessment and design around core needs such as home safety, daily living activities, life care, rehabilitation care, etc., supports the evaluation and design around core goals such as energy conservation, carbon emission reduction, resource recycling, and green environmental protection, and encourages the research and development and application of new materials, new technologies, new products, new processes, new models, and new scenarios in accordance with the principle of "suitability, adaptation, moderation, and application".
According to the work goals proposed in the draft for comments, by 2025, we will strive to complete high-quality age-appropriate transformation in hundreds of streets and tens of thousands of households in the city, forming "100 streets and 10,000 households"; The city will adopt a family-led, government-supported, and multi-party participation method to establish a cost-sharing mechanism for age-appropriate transformation, and improve the whole-process service system for age-appropriate renovation assessment and design, expert review, parts purchase, construction and installation, recycling of old objects, and health services, specifically, a total of six tasks have been clarified.
Among them, the city will build a design service platform for age-appropriate transformation, integrate the upstream and downstream of the industrial chain to create an open public service platform for design institutions and the public, provide design units with online application portals for design schemes, provide scenarios for product suppliers, provide service channels for elderly families, and provide information release and case display for the public. At the same time, a design standard system for age-appropriate renovation will be established, and a series of standards will be issued for the assessment of the home environment for the elderly, design specifications, construction guidelines and process control guidelines, so as to provide standardized guidance for the design and whole process of age-appropriate renovation.
The city also plans to support the construction of public model rooms and the design of home renovation for the elderly, and support the use of existing community service spaces in the streets to build public model rooms for the elderly, so as to facilitate the elderly to experience nearby, and at the same time provide embedded public services such as housekeeping and convenience;
The draft for comments proposes to encourage enterprises to provide services such as storage and processing of old objects, give full play to the role of existing home appliances as a platform for trade-in, extend the whole process of storage, recycling and treatment of other old objects such as furniture from home appliances, and encourage more home appliances and furniture business enterprises to provide such services around age-appropriate transformation. According to the plan, the city intends to guide insurance companies to actively innovate insurance products around the transformation of the elderly, relying on the long-term care insurance system, to explore innovative insurance products such as fall prevention insurance for the elderly, home improvement product insurance for the elderly, and value-added services for the transformation of the elderly for customers.
It is worth noting that street and home renovation projects are expected to receive financial support. According to the draft for comments, the city intends to use the existing community service space or other idle space in the street to build a public model room for the elderly, according to the proportion of 30% of the total investment in fixed assets to give support, for the family renovation project for the elderly, it is proposed to give design support according to the standard of 200 yuan/square meter, the whole house renovation is calculated according to the area of the house, the maximum is not more than 140 square meters, and the partial renovation is calculated according to the actual renovation area.
