养老院专为接待自理老人或综合接待自理老人、介助老人、介护老人安度晚年而设置的社会养老服务机构，设有生活起居、文化娱乐、康复训练、医疗保健等多项服务设施。
The nursing home is a social service institution specially set up for receiving the self-care elderly or comprehensively receiving the self-care elderly, helping the elderly and taking care of the elderly in their old age. It has a number of service facilities such as daily life, culture and entertainment, rehabilitation training, medical care and so on.
送老人入住养老院，对于不少市民来说，还是有一定的心理压力。也有一些老人因自身需要，主动选择入住养老院。居住环境适宜、护理人员水平较好、价格适中等问题，成为多数老人入住养老机构之前所考虑的问题。
For many citizens, there is still a certain amount of psychological pressure to send the elderly into nursing homes. There are also some elderly people who choose to live in nursing homes because of their own needs. The suitable living environment, good level of nursing staff and moderate price have become the problems that most elderly people consider before they move into pension institutions.
公立养老院入住难
Difficult to live in public nursing homes
随着高龄老人数量的快速增长，无论在城市还是农村，“倒金字塔式”的家庭结构和“空巢”家庭数量不断增多，社会化养老成为大势所趋。
With the rapid growth of the number of the elderly, whether in urban or rural areas, "inverted pyramid" family structure and "empty nest" family number continue to increase, social pension has become the general trend.