Research On The Choice Of The Patterns For The Aged From The Aspect Of The Old People's Quality Of Life

Since the elderly people have seriously internal differentiation and division, it is necessary for studiers to differentiate old people into subgroups. Based on the different sectors of the elderly people, this thesis stratifies the old people into subgroups in order to offer suitable choices on caring for different old people. Different old people have different demand for living, and different people own different objective and subjective conditions. Thus, different people have different choice for the patterns for the aged.With the changing of the social economy and the individual differences among the aged, the old people's demand develops incessantly. The demand, which includes physical and mental demand, reflects old people's preference and expectation, and indicates that old people try to copy with those changes. The demand determines how the old people choose the patterns providing for the aged. It also reflects the contradiction and problems between the subjective demand and the objective conditions. From the aspects of demand and supply of microeconomics, the demand of old people's also decides the supply for the old people. The relationship between supply and demand decides the old people's quality of life.The diversified trends of the patterns provided for old people indicate that the elderly may choose the patterns which suit them best. If there is only one pattern, it is meaningless for people to do so. When the diversified trends exist, people may choose the best one in order to improve their quality of life.In order to analyze this choice of patterns, this thesis mainly includes eight chapters.The first chapter mainly introduces the background around the world and the related issues home and abroad, forwards the purpose and significance of this study, defines the main concepts of this thesis, advances the basic theory, the research framework, and the research methods. The second chapter presents the body of selecting and the reason why people choose those patterns. Beginning with the body of choosing, this thesis analyzes the differences of old people under the theory of social stratification, and probes into the demand of different elderly. Since the demand of old people is the motivation of the choice, the demand exploring is necessary. Since developing the old people's quality of life is the goal of the demand of old people, the quality of life is target of old people's choice.The third chapter takes apart the object and the presupposition of choosing. From the development of the old care models at home and abroad, this paper discusses the modern changes of the old care models, including the changes from the family of old-age care model to the social pension care model, and changes from living at home to living at the pension institutions, and changes from the economic support to the spirit of consolation. Those changes mean the tendency of changes is irreversible and inevitable. That's why old people may choose the best patterns for themselves. As well, this chapter tries to elect the relationship between the old people's demand and the patterns. The developing trends of the patterns and demand offer more choices for the aged to insure their quality of life.The fourth chapter probes into the evaluation criteria of the choice, that's, the quality of old people's life. The quality of life is a well-established evaluation criteria for the old people expressing their satisfaction received from the pattern. The improvement of quality of life offers the direction for the pattern's future development. The improvement of quality of life is the symbol of the elderly sharing the social progresses. Last this chapter attempts to set up the relationship between the old-age patterns and the quality of life, based on the old people's demand.The fifth chapter is the practical analysis, mainly emphasizes why old people choose those pattern, how they lead in their lives, and what's the result of their choosing. After analyzing those cases, this thesis find out the pro-active choice is helpful for their lives.The sixth chapter brings forward the differences in selection based on the better quality of life. This thesis introduces the feature and the rules of the special choice, points out the objective and real of choice, and offers different choices for different old group. The seventh chapter tries to set up the support system for the choice aimed at improving the quality of life. From the micro-aspects, this chapter discusses the stability of public finances, formal professional community care for elderly, informal old-age care resources, and so on. The macro-aspects include the economic development, social progress, cultural development, environmental quality, and so on.The last chapter tries to summarize the main points of this thesis, and point out the lack of research and the direction of future study.