Abstract: Community care originated from the establishment of modern social welfare and social welfare system in Britain in the 1940s. At the beginning of 21^st Century, in the background of severe aging of the population, Chinese community home care experiences a rapid development, but faces the development dilemma of localization of western ethics and technical methods. Based on analyzing and comparing community care development status in Britain and China, the article explores in depth the Chinese compatibility of community care from the four aspects——social structure, cultural context, social welfare and social work. It points out the future direction of Chinese community home care and puts forward some countermeasures and suggestions from three dimensions——understanding social and cultural differences to realize the creative transformation of the old service; understanding the community and the elderly to construct a systematic pension service system; understanding the elderly life course to set up an active aging service concept.

Key words: community care, community home care, compatibility