Abstract: Based on the roles of nursing institutions for the aged in the labor market, capital market and old-age service market, this paper constructs the logical framework of labor allocation of nursing institutions for the aged, and investigates the 11 key indicators, such as labor-capital ratio, labor-support ratio, labor-labor ratio and so on. The findings show that the demand elasticity of nursing staff is the highest, which is affected by the number of the aged dwellers. The allocation of old-age service professional personnel, such as certified doctors, nutritionists, social workers and so on, has structural differences due to the different natures of the nursing institutions for the aged. Of which, the professional-bed ratio and the professional-support ratio of the public nursing institutions are 1:33 and 1:25 respectively, which are twice as much as those of private institutions. The allocation of administrative and logistics personnel is centered on the nursing staff, and the centralized distribution trend is obvious. Therefore, a realistic path to improve the old-age service supply is to give full play to the advantages of labor and capital elements in the public nursing institutions, establish the internal rotation system and external sharing system for the old-age service professionals, optimize the labor-support ratio and structure, and narrow the differences in labor allocation among institutions.

Key words: nursing institutions for the aged, labor allocation, labor-capital ratio, labor-support ratio, labor-labor ratio