Abstract: In the new era, the standardization of nursing home effectively responds to the needs of the elderly for a better life, and is also a requirement for the supply of elderly-care services in the modernization of social governance. The standardized construction of elderly care institutions includes selection index and standard setting in which a certain reasonable boundary is needed because it is related to public interests. Ineffective expansion of institutional costs and failure of public policy should be prevented in the process of standardization construction, in response to the multiple needs of the elderly. Through studies on the continuous national policies and local pilot practices, we have drawn valuable experiences of standardized construction of elderly care institutions, such as two-way interaction at the national and local levels, the combination of pilot experience and expertise, and the coordination and cooperation of administrative entities and social forces. In future standardized construction of elderly care institutions, we should continue to optimize and accelerate the scientific advancement of the standardization, so as to develop from pilot practice to industry and build a long-term implementation mechanism.

Key words: elderly care institutions, standardized construction, reasonable boundaries, failure of public policy, supply of elderly care services