Nearly half of families empty nests of urban old age The living out one's life in retirement at home of the community becomes the new trend

Nearly half of families empty nests of urban old age The living out one's life in retirement at home of the community becomes the new trend
According to the report of " the city of our country supports parents and serves to study at home " which the national committee for the study of problems of the aged announced, at present of our country urban old person's empty nest family ' Including living alone) Proportion last 49.7%, be lasted 7.7 percentage points compared with 2000. The elderly of large and medium cities empty nest families ' Including living alone) The proportion is higher, up to 56.1%, it is solitary among them the elderly account for 12.1%, the ones that lived with spouse accounted for 44%.


The empty nest family of old age means that has no children together and lives at one's side, the elderly's family of life alone, including empty nest family of two persons of single empty nest family and married couple. The old man in these families is known as the empty nest old man.
The research report claims, with social economic development, change of life ideas of people, the improvement of the condition of the house, and the only-child's parents begin to enter senescence phase, empty nest phenomenon general, empty the intersection of nest and too obvious extension issue. Live alone with the developed country compared with a proportion up to 70% to 80% of married couple's empty nest, the trend that the proportions of the empty nest of the elderly of our country increase continuously will be irreversible.
Compared with the non- empty nest old man, the empty nest old man often has more worry, for example nobody at one's side when falling ill suddenly, nobody looks after when or can not take care of oneself. Meanwhile, the empty nest old man's spiritual problem concerning life can't be ignored either. The experts put forward " Syndrome of empty nest " Summarize this question vividly: The elderly's lonely mood, will lead to the fact old man's personality depression, capacity are reduced, memory and judgement declines, even will bring out senile spiritual diseases or psychological diseases such as old age dull-witted, old depression,etc.. So, in " silvery tide " While attacking, in the face of the elderly's empty nest, how to support parents to make the elderly working hard all one's life spend remaining years in comfort happily, become the focus that the society pays close attention to and discusses.
At present, in the urban society of our country, traditional " raise sons to support one in one's old age " The modes all receive enormous impact to support parents in idea and family. On one hand, fierce social competition enable people for the livelihood and in being nervous and busy day by day, the multiple role's identity of the young people in China, let them get into a difficult position, the filial old man is often " unable to do what one wants very much to do " . On the other hand, vary with the ideas of people, many the elderly begin not to regard family with 4 generations living together under one roof as the honour again, they are more willing to live alone, so not only increase burden can live freely and unconstrainedly for children but also.
Meanwhile, the organization supports parents and becomes the mode of supporting parents which the society accepts gradually too. But the scale that our country supports parents in the organization can not still far catch up with the demand. Calculate according to investigating, the potential demand for the berth of supporting parents to the organization is from 18,210,000 22,610,000 rising to 2006 in 2000. But it is only 1,490,000 that the existing berth of social pension organization of our country is counted, still less than 1/ 12 of the demand.
" Beijing Evening " unites one that Sohu net carries on " How do Chinese support parents in the future " Investigation reveal( 8745 net friends participate in) ,The community supports parents and ranks the first, 46.1% of the people choose this, and then support parents at home (28.0%) Support parents with organization ' 26.0% ) . The community here supports parents, mean one regards supporting parents the foundation at home as, supported by community service, by new mode of supporting parents at home of socialization supplemented by the welfare organization.
Population and research and development centre Professor Yao Yuan of the People's University of China point out, from the viewpoint of domestic factor, the proposition supporting parents and serving at home, has already had function of the negative factor, also there is function of the positive factor, it is that " one is weakened, four are strengthened " to sum up . " one is weakened " Refer to family support parents reduction of the function; " four are strengthened " Mean the consciousness that the elderly pursued life quality has been strengthened, the elderly's living guarantee improvement of terms, aged to work especially community's working level has been improved, the faster development of the aged undertaking.
Professor Yao Yuan still points out, it has strong cultural inside information that our country supports parents at home. Family's emotion culture, human communication culture and government trust it is chosen the reason that support parents at home that the elderly's culture such as culture have answered the elderly. In addition, it already accords with the life will that the elderly have liked spending old age in the familiar environment to support parents at home, can support parents with many kinds of communities with the family and self-ly resources interrelate. Another important value of supporting parents at home still embodies in, can train the elderly's independence.
In April of this year, China establishes the first nationwide community to support parents in the service centre at home - -Support parents in the service centre at home in splendor. Sinus, Vice Minister of Ministry of Civil Affairs, jade abundant to say, support parents, accord with the China tradition at home, suitable for China's actual conditions are to advance China support parents weight of services. Establishment and call of the service centre serve the construction of the system on national network to support parents at home in splendor, tackle and support parents and serve new situation and new task of development at home at present, explore the effective way of supporting parents and serving at home. Support parents in the community at home in exploration and implementation course of the new way, various service methods are emerging constantly, for instance: Send off meal call, " Knock at the door in love " , " love doorbell " , " hot lines of the elderly " Wait a moment, the community is becoming more and more complete to serve constantly to support parents at home.
However, the community which the city of our country launches supports parents and serves and still faces practising the difficult problem manily at home. Aged to run Deputy Director Wu YuShao to point out, our country supports parents and need analyse and explain 4 difficult problems to serve at home China: First, unclear in the duty border of the government; Second, the operating mechanism development of the market lags behind; Third, serving the building of contingent can't meet the current demand; Fourth, it is low to serve resource utilization efficiencies.
Social researcher of academy of sciences Zhang XiaoXia in Jiangxi Province, point out on the basis of supporting parents to community of Nanchang of Jiangxi Province at home to serve investigation of the situation, we should change the idea, strengthen government's leading factor, regard supporting parents the important component of social construction at home in the community as to treat. Meanwhile, will break the information barrier, will put up the platform of resource-sharing. In addition, should proceed from demands of the elderly and regard effective demand, key demand as the breakthrough point, develop the elderly's products and project of supporting parents, expand service content.
With updating and completion that the community supported parents to serve at home, the mode that the community supports parents at home or becoming a good way of supporting parents. With the development of social economy, it is a kind of inevitable trend to socialize and support parents and support parents in place of the family, but this does not represent the family can totally get rid of the responsibility that support parents, especially at the present stage, when the social pension system of our country has not been set up and amplified yet. It is being vacant that young people are busy with work, don't forget to phone parents either, come back home, have a look often, the kindred type greet spiritual consolation that bring, to have replacable.
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