Meng Dandan Beijing reported
Beijing Textile Factory retired worker Luo Shufang (65 years old) since the only daughter married to move out of the house, he had to "keep the empty nest". Although the three daughters of their family live in Beijing together, Luo Shufang's time to enjoy family happiness is still rare.
with China running into an aging society, the number of older people over 60 is increasing rapidly, and the solitary, widowed "empty nest old man" is growing at an unprecedented rate.
data show that between 2000 and 2010, the proportion of empty nesters in urban areas increased from 42% to 54% in China, and from 37.9% to 45.6% in rural areas. In 2013, the population of empty nesters in China was over 100 million. With the first generation of only child parents entering the old age, the number of empty nesters in China will increase to more than 200000000 in 2030, accounting for 90% of the total number of elderly people.
more and more empty nesters break the traditional way of providing for the aged in China. In the past, the family model of the fourth world has provided the family security for the "old and old". With the rapid population flow, the improvement of the housing conditions and the gradual change of the people's family concept, the traditional living customs of children and children around the knee are becoming more and more scarce in China, and the function of family pension is becoming more and more limited.
"the daughter's family can come to visit us once a month," Luo Shufang was a little lost, but she was considerate to the newspaper: "the son-in-law is also the only child, and the family has to take care of it, and the young people have their own way of life, the work pressure is too big, can not be reluctant."
the current Luo Shufang and his partner (67 years old) body is still hard, two people a month 4000 yuan (RMB, the same, about 800 new yuan) pension, is also enough to maintain daily life, "empty nest" has not yet brought real trouble. Compared with
, the old age of Li Wanyuan in Dongcheng District, Beijing is somewhat desolate. 76 year old Li Lao Tai suffers from two chronic diseases. After two years ago, the most basic food and drink became a thorny problem.
she told the newspaper that the community once had a "small dining table" (restaurant) for the elderly, and later, because of the fewer and less dinning people, the table was cancelled soon. "Now I can only rely on my daughter to come over every weekend to help me make a meal, or bring a stuffed buns and dumplings for a week."
she said, "my daughter is also 53 years old, and her health is not very good, and her family has to take care of it." In order to try not to drag her daughter, Li Lao Tai's life is: "at night try to drink less water, eat less, less to the bathroom", "also as little bath as possible, in case of fall, fall, too troublesome."
whether it is Luo Shufang who is longing for his family, or Li Lao, who needs to be taken care of by his family, behind the empty nest is the old age of China.
since China entered the aging society in 2000, the population aged over 60 has been growing rapidly. In 2012, the population aged over 60 reached 194 million, and after breaking through 200 million in 2013, it still increased by 10 million people per year. By 2039, there will be two grim situations for China to support an elderly person.
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population aging is a common problem of globalization, and the population base of China is huge. The family planning policy has led to a sudden reduction in the labor force, and the per capita GNP still has a certain gap between the developed and the developed countries, which all make the aging situation worse.
in recent years, because of lack of care or lack of support for children, empty nesters have repeatedly become victims of fraud cases, and the elderly have simply put their children to court. In addition, human tragedies that were discovered after the death of empty nesters for many days were common.
in order to encourage children to do more filial piety and more parents, the Chinese government put forward the "new twenty four filial piety" in 2012, hoping to wake up young people, especially the filial piety of the self - centered one generation. The new twenty four filial piety requires their children to "teach their parents to learn to go online", "often cook for their parents", "long for parents' pocket money", "buying insurance for their parents" and so on.
2013, the government also formally entered the law for the children "to visit or greet the elderly", with a view to urging their children to fulfil their spiritual support for the elderly from the legal level.
the gradual disintegration of traditional filial piety and the increasing flow of population, especially for "421" families (one child needs to feed their parents and two grandparents), and these attempts to persuade their children to take on the responsibility of supporting the elderly physically and mentally are obviously unrealistic.
some scholars argue that, facing the unique and more severe aging characteristics of Chinese society, the pension is not only the obligation of the children, but also an unshirkable responsibility of the government. Only by improving the social endowment insurance mechanism as soon as possible, and the government and families perform their duties, can China's "old age" tradition continue.
3 million and half of the elderly in Beijing are empty nest
2014 at the end of the year. The population of 60 years old and above has exceeded 3 million, half of which are empty nesters. As the oldest and fastest city in aging, many communities in Beijing haven't prepared for the elderly in the empty nest elderly at home.
this newspaper visited some old and old residential districts and new residential districts in Beijing. It is still blank for the elderly and inconvenient old people to have meals, medical care and spiritual comfort. A recent survey conducted by the national Aging office also shows that only 30% of the community now has facilities such as nursing homes and home care centers.
this, Beijing recently issued the country's first home pension regulations, the family of the elderly meals, family care, emergency rescue, spiritual comfort and so on to make guidelines, and invested 112 million yuan to support the implementation of funds.