This book focuses on aging issues in China, explores the development path of elderly care with Chinese characteristics, and strives to build a theoretical framework for China’s elderly care system. It aims to propose Chinese solutions to the global challenge of aging and attempts to make unique theoretical contributions to worldwide elderly care development. Drawing on theories from social security studies, public administration, public economics, and political science, this book examines various aspects of China’s elderly care system, including home-based care, community-supported home-based care, institutional care, support for phychological wellbeing for the elderly, the impact of population aging, and international experience in pension security. It analyzes existing problems in China’s elderly care system and provides policy recommendations to improve the accessibility of elderly care services and social security, incorporating insights from global best practices. Additionally, it summarizes the historical experiences of China’s elderly care mechanisms, presenting a compelling narrative of the country’s progress in pension security development. The targeted readers are professional researchers, educators, students, public policymakers, and practitioners in aging studies, social security, elderly care studies, and related fields. The uniqueness of the book lies in its cross-disciplinary and specialized research on this critical issue of aging and elderly welfare. Based on a multi-disciplinary theoretical foundation, it covers core topics in the field of social policy, involving multiple disciplines such as social security studies, economics, sociology, public administration, demography, and ethics of science and technology.

Jianding Ding, professor of School of Sociology, Huazhong University of Science and Technology. His research focuses on social security systems, welfare theories, and elderly care policies. Currently, he directs the Hubei Provincial Elderly Care Research Center, serves as Vice President of the China Social Security Association, and sits on editorial boards of several academic journals including serving as Editor-in-Chief of Elderly Care Studies (Academic Journal). The English version of his monograph “Research on Improvement of China's Social Security System (2024)” is published by William S Hein & Co. Inc. and include in Wells-China Law & Society Library. His other monographs include Major Issues in the Integration and Improvement of China’s Social Security System (2019), Research Report on the Development of Elderly Care Services in China (2018).