This poster describes an ongoing, community-based, elder care project involving the University of Washington and the Seattle-Chongqing Sister City Association in partnership with the First Affiliated Hospital of Chongqing Medical University and the Qinggang Senior Care Center in Chongqing, China. While the number of quality skilled nursing and assisted living facilities is growing in Chongqing’s greater metropolitan area of around 30 million residents, there are relatively few community-based services to support older adults aging in the community near their families and friends. The purpose of this partnership is to introduce community-based care policy and program initiatives -- such as care transition models, aging friendly and dementia friendly communities, and evidence-based wellness programs – to staff from the hospital and senior care facility and to learn from them about both the barriers to the implementation of such models and the strengths offered by other care models in their city. This multiphase project involves a multidisciplinary group of UW faculty visiting Chongqing to understand their elder care services and introduce current community-based care models; a Chongqing delegation visiting Seattle to attend a regional conference on Elder Friendly Futures and visit community-based services and facilities; a pilot testing of new care models in Chongqing; and sharing geriatric education programs and tools for enhancing low-cost elder care networks. This poster identifies the opportunities and challenges with such collaborations, lessons learned and strategies relevant to other groups seeking to develop similar partnerships that have policy-level implications.
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