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The opinion of the State Council of China on the advancement of the causes of disabled persons in the country is presented. Topics covered include the need to recognize the significance of advancing the development of disabled persons' causes, importance of ensuring that disabled persons have basic health care and public health services; and the need to improve living assistance policies for disabled persons.

This article analyses the provision of community care for urban disabled elderly women. With the emergence of an aging society in China and the empty nest syndrome in Chinese families, the number of elderly people who cannot take care of themselves is increasing. With the reduction in family size and the weakening of the home care function, traditional family care in China is facing immense challenges. On the one hand, a growing number of disabled elderly women are in urgent need of care; they encounter many difficulties in daily life, including poor health status, the loss of their spouse and living alone, an inability to support themselves economically, the lack of a spiritual life, and a significant reliance on their children to take care of them. On the other hand, the family's function of providing for the elderly has been weakened, and the traditional way of care is affected by the changes in modern society. Based on a qualitative study in Beijing, this article examines the demand for care from disabled elderly women and the current supply of community care. It puts forward a community-centred and targeted assistance model and social work intervention. This study argues that the community care system for disabled elderly women in urban areas should focus on four aspects, namely living care, medical care, spiritual consolation, and emergency assistance; and the protection mechanism should be improved to support disabled elderly women from three aspects: a protection system, a fund guarantee and services from health and social cafe staff and social workers. • Analyses the provision of community care for disabled elderly women in urban China. • Discusses the demand and supply of social care for disabled elderly women. • Argues that the community care system should focus on four aspects. • Proposes a community-centred and targeted assistance model. • Provides an interesting comparison to other social care service systems of the world. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

• The problem of voluntarily abandonment free health services among children with disabilities is caused by asymmetry between the ideology of egalitarianism and developmentalism. • Disability policy implementation from developmentalism produces the result of voluntarily abandonment through the governance methods and parents' attitudes approach. • The Governance methods produce invisible institutional exclusion in the form of non-client-centered tasks, constraints surrounding service costs, competitive welfare development models, and "good" performance chasing. • Parents treat children with disabilities as abnormal, unprofitable, burdensome, and tragic, which encourages the voluntarily abandonment of healthcare services. • The results of this study call for critical reflections to protect health and rehabilitation rights for children with disabilities. In terms of protecting children with disabilities, healthcare rights are a crucial issue that cannot be ignored. In China, although the government provides generous health services, children with disabilities abandoning those services is a common phenomenon. Few scholars have directly and systematically studied this important issue. Using a qualitative method, we investigated the experiences and feelings of six service providers and twelve primary caregivers. From an ideological conflict perspective, we have found that China is a social context in which the state-led ideology of egalitarianism and the ideology of developmentalism co-exist but clash at the level of local governments and organizations. We produced two themes: (a) Governance methods arising from developmentalism produce invisible institutional exclusion in the form of non-client-centered tasks, constraints surrounding service costs, competitive welfare development models, and "good" performance chasing; (b) parents operating under developmentalism treat children with disabilities as abnormal, unprofitable, burdensome, and tragic, which encourages the voluntarily abandonment of healthcare services. The interaction of these two themes strengthens the ideological split occurring between them, leading to the widespread deprivation of health rights among children with disabilities. The results of this study call for critical reflections on disability policy implementation under this current conflicting ideology. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Examines the formation and influence of the China Disabled Persons' Federation, which was formed in 1988 to assist disabled persons and to develop a specific branch of biomedical care, rehabilitation medicine. Formation of the federation by Deng Pufang, eldest son of Deng Xiaoping, one of China's top government leaders in the late 20th century; Role of the federation in promoting rights discourses; China's use of the federation's existence as proof of China's commitment to fostering national civility and international standards of human rights; Analysis of the role of Deng Pufang's bodily presence in the emergence of an apparatus of normalization and social assistance.