Abstract: With the intensification of aging and the development of the society, it becomes necessary for government to purchase home-based care services. Based on analysis of the concept of government purchase of home-based care services, we summarized the existing practice models from home and abroad. And we learned some lessons from the process of government purchase of home-based care services. For example, bidding buying pattern is the optional model, government should act as a main role while the social organization should play a key role and Social organization construction should be relatively mature. At the same time, we pointed out that in the government purchase of home-based care services, the willingness of government to buy services is low, the operation of social organization is faced with dilemma, consumers have little citizen consciousness and some other problems exist in separate aspects of arrangers, producers and consumers. Last, we put forward some countermeasures such as empowering the old and promoting the independence of social organization from the cognitive domain and operational level. We also construct the bidding buying pattern which contains bodies of governments, social organizations, association of the old and some other evaluation organizations, volunteers, community workers and the old.

Key words: The government purchase, social organization;, home-based care services