Overview of luxury retirement apartments

Hotel-style finely decorated residences integrate recuperation, leisure and home, with professional nursing staff providing 24-hour service... Reporters recently interviewed in Beijing, Shanghai, Zhejiang and other places and found that high-end residences that focus on home-style enjoyment Senior apartments and senior communities are emerging and recognized by some high-end senior groups. However, due to the high fees, large area, and low occupancy rate of these high-end senior apartments, it has also triggered controversy over their occupation of land, waste of resources, and unfair welfare. Phenomenon: Luxurious senior apartments are very comfortable

The reporter recently drove from the center of Beijing, and after nearly an hour of driving, arrived at Huichen Senior Apartments in Changping, a suburb of Beijing. The first phase of the park that unfolds before you covers an area of ??170 acres, with four rows of buildings scattered in an orderly manner. It is equipped with home-style apartments, nutritious restaurants, community hospitals, senior activity centers, and resort hotels. It is surrounded by lawns, green trees, rockeries, and ponds, and the air Fresh and pleasant environment.

Walking into one of the apartments, the reporter saw that all passages are barrier-free and the four-story building is equipped with an elevator to facilitate entry and exit for the elderly. Compared with traditional nursing homes, these high-end retirement apartments not only have first-class hardware facilities, but also have professional care and high-standard services that make the elderly residents satisfied.

Controversy: Ordinary people cannot afford it

However, the reporter learned from interviews that these high-end senior apartments generally cover a large area, ranging from one to two hundred acres to four to five hundred acres. Even thousands of acres. The entry threshold is relatively high, and membership fees ranging from 100,000 yuan to 600,000 yuan are often required. On this basis

there is an additional service fee of several hundred or thousands of yuan per month. Due to high fees, which are unaffordable for ordinary people, the current occupancy rate of these elderly apartments is generally low. In addition, these projects have received more or less financial and land support from the state. This has triggered controversy over the occupation of land, waste of resources, and unfair welfare in these elderly apartments.

After viewing a high-end senior apartment, a retired middle school teacher lamented: The service facilities here are indeed good, but the fees are so high that we dare not expect to live in it. During the interview, many people believed that these high-end senior apartments often cost tens of millions or even hundreds of millions of yuan in investments and occupy a large amount of land resources, but only provide for the elderly care of a few wealthy people. This is a huge waste of resources and also creates a negative impact on social welfare. of injustice.

The person in charge of the relevant department of the Ministry of Civil Affairs believes that it should be viewed from a long-term development perspective and left to the market and society to test.