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At
the city level, there was only one
comprehensive institute accepting elderly widows as well as
-disabled orphans before 1980.
The accomodation was old,
managenent was backward.
the equipment crude, and the
Since 1984, with the caring support from the municipal
government and various sectors of
the society, the
welfare service
underwent rapid
The number of
comprehensive institute
municipal social
development.
increases from one to the present five and the number of
intake beds increase from around 900 to more than 1900.
Staff working in social welfare services increase from
around 500 to nore than 1730. Anong these five institutes,
two
social welfare institutes for the elderly: ie. the
First Welfare Institute and the Fourth Welfare Institute .
The First Welfare Institute mainly accepts the lonely
elderlies from revolutionary martyrs' families, disabled
elderly revolutionary servicemen, demobilized and retired
elderly soldiers, retired experts and professors who have
difficulties in living
living at home, and elderly Hong Kong and ·
Macao compatriots and elderly overseas Chinese. The Fourth
Welfare Institute mainly takes in elderlies fron the
community. There is also a Children Welfare Institute,
which mainly accepts orphaned and disabled children aged
under 16 and disabled
and
towns whose
children aged under 16 from cities
families are unable to take care of them.
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