In order to solve the predicament brought by the aging society, China has promoted the combination of medical care. Hence, rehabilitation for the elderly may become a new strategy for the development of rehabilitation. According to the development of three different models and situation of China, we focus on improving the function of the elderly based on the families, the communities and institutions. Finally, the elderly feel happy and respected by getting professional means of rehabilitation while aging. The insurance system is the guarantee of promoting rehabilitation for the elderly and the " ternary theory” rehabilitation theory should be the guide concept. In the future, the trend is to build China’s three-level " intelligent rehabilitation for the elderly system” by artificial intelligence and big data cloud platform.
It is imperative to address aging and health challenges by developing rehabilitation services, which are essential for enhancing the public quality of life and health emergency response. This initiative urgently requires professional talent support, with vocational colleges playing a crucial role in cultivating applied professionals. This article takes Yibin, Sichuan as an example, analyzes the necessity of setting up the rehabilitation therapy technology in Yibin vocational colleges from the dimensions of policy support, actual demand, talent gap, local college layout, and talent distribution, and proposes measures to build a “government-demand-education” collaborative system, in order to provide theoretical references for the rational layout and high-quality development of rehabilitation therapy technology.