3 of the elderly in China still work over 4 of the elderly, claiming that they are family burdens.
today is the Double Ninth Festival. Yesterday, the first geriatric Festival Symposium jointly organized by the China Social Welfare Association and the China Social Security Research Center of Renmin University of China was held in Beijing. The reporter learned from the meeting that at present, about 40.7% of the elderly in our country are still supported by family, 40% people think that they are the burden of family, only about 24% of the elderly can rely on pension, and a large part of the rural elderly rely on labor income to support themselves.
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24% elderly people can live on pension life
yesterday, Renmin University of China Gerontology Research Institute published the status of Chinese elderly. Data show that 30% of the elderly population is still working, and the data in rural areas reach 40%. For more than 20 years from 1990 to now, the rate of urban elderly has been declining, and it is now around 5%, but the population in the rural areas is growing, and now it is about 40%.
Du Peng, vice president of the Chinese Society for geriatrics and director of the Institute of Gerontology of Renmin University of China, said that after the full coverage of the system of pension security in China, 24% of the retirement pension in 2010 and 40.7% of the rest of the family members were still available. Among them, 2/3 of the elderly living on a retirement pension in the city, but only 4.6% of the old people in the countryside can live on pension, and 41.2% of the rural elderly depend on their own income. "The problems in the countryside are more serious than the city. Many old people have no income, and they have to rely on their children once they live." Raising, they rely on family members to support the proportion of 47.7%. "
data show that among the 401 million households in the country in 2010, there are 123 million households with 60 years of age and older population. Generally speaking, there are 40 million 135 thousand elderly empty nest families, and the total number of elderly people living in empty nest families is at least 62 million, accounting for 1/3 of the total population of the elderly.
at the symposium, the Chinese Social Welfare Association also published the Research Report on the mental and cultural service model of the elderly. The report shows that the death of relatives and friends has the greatest psychological impact on the elderly, and the elderly's worries about their future pension and their children and physical pain will also cause psychological problems of the elderly, such as anxiety and depression.
by comparing three national survey data of China's aging research center in 2000, 2006 and 2010, it is found that the loneliness of the elderly people in urban and rural areas and the value of their self are all improving. The loneliness of the elderly over 80 years of age in the city has decreased significantly, and it has dropped by 20 percentage points in ten years.
, at the same time, about 57.1% of urban and rural elderly people on average in 2000 considered themselves a family burden, and in 2010, an average of 43.3% of the elderly considered the burden of the family, and the proportion of their negative judgments was greatly reduced, indicating that the elderly were more confident of life.