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<b>Empty Beds, Unmet Needs: Elder Care in Rural China</b> Lang Zhuo (13787845) Health economics residential elder care medical-elder care integration rural China <p dir="ltr">County-level residential elder care exhibits a structural mismatch—beds without services. Financial distress clusters in public facilities and tracks occupancy rather than capacity, while the workforce cannot yet deliver the medical and psychosocial care that increasingly dependent residents need. Converting vacant capacity into service capability—through one-stop dual licensing, entrusted operation of public homes, occupancy- and dependency-linked financing, and competency-based workforce development—offers a realistic bridge between supply and demand.</p> 2026-09-26T00:47:20Z Dataset Dataset 10.6084/m9.figshare.34001640.v1 https://figshare.com/articles/dataset/_b_Empty_Beds_Unmet_Needs_Elder_Care_in_Rural_China_b_/34001640 CC BY 4.0