I need to go out for a few days temporarily, but there are still elderly people to take care of at home. What should I do? More than 90% of elderly people in our country tend to stay at home for elderly care, with a significant portion being disabled individuals. Families caring for the elderly face many challenges. In response to this pain point, many elderly care institutions have launched "short-term custody" services (hereinafter referred to as "short-term custody elderly care"). Unlike the long-term care service model of traditional nursing homes, short-term care for the elderly has a shorter stay time and higher flexibility, which can solve temporary needs such as children going out and short-term postoperative care. Short term care for the elderly, as the name suggests, is a type of care service primarily focused on short-term stays. When short-term travel, temporary business trips, or unexpected situations quietly arrive, children with disabilities, semi disabilities, or elderly people at home often face the dilemma of "difficult to balance both". How to balance personal work life and caregiving responsibilities has become an unavoidable reality for many families. The emergence of short-term care for the elderly has brought another way to solve problems for these families and injected new vitality into the traditional elderly care model. The key to short-term care for the elderly lies in its flexible response to the most urgent pain points that need to be addressed in contemporary family care. The sustainable development of this service inevitably relies on the deep integration of specialization and humanization. From the reporter's visit, it can be seen that short-term care for the elderly is not a "temporary placement", but a high-quality elderly care supply based on standardized services. From scientific meal preparation to personalized rehabilitation plans, from rich daytime activities to meticulous emotional care, short-term care for the elderly is using its professionalism to compensate for the limitations of family care. The rise of short-term care for the elderly is not only an innovation in service models, but also reflects the modern governance thinking of resource optimization and social coordination. On the one hand, it cleverly revitalizes the often idle bed resources in elderly care institutions, significantly improving the efficiency of existing facilities and enabling limited elderly care resources to be recycled and exert greater social value; On the other hand, short-term care for the elderly also demonstrates the governance wisdom of government and market collaboration, injecting stable support for elderly care services through various means such as government purchasing services, building street care centers, and providing operational subsidies. Of course, it must also be soberly recognized that short-term care for the elderly still faces practical challenges such as insufficient public awareness and inconsistent service standards. To promote its better development, firstly, we need to increase policy guidance and support to encourage more elderly care institutions to open up short-term care services; Secondly, we need to increase professional training for nursing staff, establish a scientific quality evaluation system, and achieve the organic unity of personalization and specialization; Thirdly, we need to further deepen the mechanism of "medical and elderly care integration", enhance the professional level and service scope of short-term care services, and make them an indispensable and important part of modern elderly care services. The emergence of short-term care for the elderly signifies that China's elderly care services are moving towards a more precise and humane direction. With the improvement of public awareness, the unification of service standards, and the improvement of policy systems, short-term care for the elderly is expected to gradually grow from supplementary services to a stable and warm component of the elderly care ecosystem. This is not only about optimizing the allocation of elderly care resources, but also about how a society can protect the livelihood of the elderly with warmth and care. (New Society)