This Year, The Month Of The Double Ninth Festival Will Be Designated As The Month Of Respecting The Elderly Every Year.

Repeated bus solitude

The main worry of empty nest elderly is "hollow".

In Chaoyang District, Beijing, the more than 60 year old Uncle Zhang goes to the bus every day, sitting at the last stop from the departure station, and then sitting back to relieve loneliness.

Aunt Shi, who is more than 70 years old, walks with her wife every day in the community, and does not want to go home without eating or sleeping.

The most common thing to do is to sit in a small park, staring at the garden.

"The family is also cold and cheerless, and the old man is deaf, and he also talks to the babysitter."

Aunt Shi has 6 children, but she only comes to see it on weekends. "Children are busy. I can't drag them down."

These two elderly people are the most common empty nesters around us. They can live and have their own pensions, but their hearts are full of loneliness.

A survey carried out by the joint website of China civilization network shows that 64.7% of respondents believe that the biggest problem facing empty nesters is mental loneliness.

Empty nesters refer to old people who have no children or children are not around and live alone.

Empty nesters account for half of the 167 million and 60 years old people in China.

Who will take care of their lives and soothe their souls?

Xicheng District, Beijing, recruited 21 inspectors for the old service, initially aiming to see what the elderly need every day, and then contacted the relevant departments to help solve them.

For a long time, the empty nesters accepted the inspectors and treated them as relatives. Their main task was to chat with the elderly.

Wu Jiawei, who has been a tour inspector for two and a half years, said: "the elderly, especially the elderly living alone, lack sense of security. Strangers can not communicate with them. These old people seldom communicate with people.

Now I am looking forward to solving this problem every day.

With the formation of the miniaturization of family structure, the 4 - 2 - 1 era (4 elderly people, 2 middle-aged people and 1 children) arrived. The only child is often unable to take care of their careers and many elderly people. The family pension function is gradually weakening.

The research on urban home care services released by the national Aging office in 2008 pointed out that the phenomenon of empty nest will be more common in the future, and the empty nest period will also be extended significantly.

Compared with the proportion of empty nest households in developed countries and 70% to 80% couples in the developed countries, the trend of increasing the proportion of empty nest in China's elderly will be irreversible.

Wu Yushao, deputy director of the national Aging office, pointed out: "the main problem of empty nest elderly is" hollow ".

For the elderly in urban and rural areas, the most important demand is spiritual comfort.

He said that all elderly people need spiritual comfort, and the empty nest elderly may be more obvious.

This is a social problem that should be solved jointly by the government, society and family. It is not a single force that can solve it.

The empty nest elderly face three challenges

The government should encourage children and elderly people to live nearby.

The pension problem is a topic of social concern. This year, it has been included in the 12 key proposals of the National People's Congress, and it is also the most representative proposal.

Wu Yushao pointed out that the increasing number of empty nesters face three major challenges:

One is living security.

Mainly in the economic field, especially for the elderly in rural areas, the pension problem will be a long-term task. The current level of the new rural social security system is still too low.

With the development and progress of the economy and society, the empty nest elderly will no longer be a derogatory term. It means housing, an independent economic capacity, a separate living space and a higher quality of life. This part of the economic security of the people is not a problem.

Therefore, in this regard, we should pay more attention to the empty nesters in the vast rural areas.

Two is the daily care service.

Developing services suitable for the elderly is the core issue of coping with aging.

At present, the level of professional services for senior citizens is not high enough. They lack professional management companies and lack of large number of professional nurses.

For example, there are only more than 20 thousand nurses in the country, and the actual demand is nearly ten million.

The three is spiritual comfort.

At present, the spiritual comfort of the elderly depends mainly on housekeeping attendants and less professional psychological practitioners.

Our country has made it clear that the mode of providing for the aged is based on the aged, relying on the aged in the community, and providing for the aged by the organization.

There is no doubt that children are the first responsible persons to take care of the empty nest elderly.

It is reported that the "Liaoning province Elderly Rights Protection Ordinance" for the first time the spiritual comfort of the elderly as a child's obligation to write local laws and regulations.

According to the survey, 75.3% of people want to live with their parents, but 69.4% of them can't realize their thoughts due to economic reasons, such as housing pressure.

Wu Yushao suggested: "the government should encourage children and the elderly to live nearby, give preferential treatment to the old people's purchase, paying taxes and loans, and advocate a good social atmosphere for their children to care for the elderly."

It is reported that the national Aging office decided that from this year, the month of Chongyang Festival will be designated as "respecting the old month" every year.

The old man's outlook on the aged needs to be changed

To cultivate interests and hobbies, life is not empty.

In the core cities of Beijing, Shanghai and other big cities, the empty nest rate is 70%.

"Our biggest difficulty is not the funding problem, but the old people's concept needs to be improved, and many old services can not be pushed forward."

Beijing Xicheng District Civil Affairs Bureau deputy director Zhu Jianmin said.

Zhu Jianmin said that there were 166 thousand elderly people in Xicheng District, accounting for 20.4% of the total population.

This figure is only a household registration population, and has not yet included many foreign elderly people.

In order to better serve the elderly, the Xicheng District Civil Affairs Bureau has implemented life care services, inspectors' butt service, psychological hotline and consulting room services, and cultural endowment services.

At the end of a Hutong in Shichahai, Beijing, 68 year old Wu Zhanfu came out from a low bungalow with two lunchboxes and walked to the communal catering area.

"Thanks to the community, we have a pension card for us, which is 200 yuan per month. It's very good."

Every day, Wu Zhanfu and her more than 90 year old mother take a walk in addition to eating and sleeping. They never go to the activity center to take part in cultural activities.

Liang Hua, director of the Shichahai community service center, said that there were more than 2700 elderly people like Wu Zhanfu who supported the old age card. The community gave them subsidies, and contacted them with various services such as catering, repairing cars, repairing shoes, selling vegetables, housekeeping and so on. In addition, the cultural activities center was established in the community, where vegetables were planted in the suburbs, so that the elderly could do exercises and exercise.

From these old people, we have developed some spiritual comfort volunteers to chat with other elderly people, communicate with each other, learn computers, etc.

In addition, there are special psychological rescuers in the community.

Liang Hua said: "there should be no problem in material life, mainly because spiritual life is not rich enough, and many elderly people do not feel the meaning of life in old age."

Wu Yushao said: "to change the concept of old-age care, we should start preparing from a young age, not only including material preparation, but also psychological preparation.

It's best to develop hobbies from a young age. Life is not empty at old age. "

Before the press release, reporters met a group of kite flying elderly people in Chaoyang Park in Beijing, all of whom are strong and energetic, and can run when they fly kites.

One of them, uncle Liu, who retired from the 738 factory, said that since he retired, he has been flying kites in Chaoyang Park for 10 years.

In addition to flying kites, usually practicing Taijiquan, but also some flowers and plants, life is very rich.

"Old people are not old, life is not stuffy, and do not worry about their children."

Uncle Liu said.