ABSTRACT
Along with rapid urbanisation, China is encountering a rapidly ageing population. China’s general ageing services were created in response to this demographic challenge. Named after the combination of institution, community, and home services, the development of various old-age institutions was largely pursued without regard to the locale or the needs of older people. Using the case study of Shanghai, this chapter will survey the background as well as the problems of the current measures, followed by an interdisciplinary literature review. This chapter asserts the importance of ageing-in-place as the general need of the older people. To help the seniors in metropoles to age-in-place, this author suggests a new prototype between home and institutions that advocates social integration, as well as proposing an empirical research model to test the spatial potential for the Shanghai seniors to age-in-place.
