Study On Family Support Of Elderly In Nursing Homes

The process of modernization and urbanization has great changed the traditional family as the core of the old way of life style, urban households are often unable to take full responsibility for caring for the elderly. This kind of situation is intensifying. Therefore,traditional family supporting parent pattern is being slam. The pattern of aging in nursing house is booming. Today, sociologists pay much attention to the elderly group and their life style in nursing homes.While the elderly coming to the nursing homes, what kind of role does family support play to them. Describing elderly group life in nursing homes Jinan, and recording their family support under the pattern of supporting oldness, the anther research elderly group objective and real sentiments at independent visual angle of the third partner. It can enrich the content of positive research in life style and offer reference materials to sociology. The study is quantitative and enforced by depth interview method. The study found Child support has long been one of the main sources of family supporting for elderly; Parents are in the nursing homes, that does not mean that children abandoned the responsibility for maintenance; The children give parents various help, some of them also give parents even more economic support emotional and considerate; Men tend to be more concerned about the tool levelto help elderly parents, more direct and concise; Support from women are more delicate and thoughtful than men; The role of grandchildren in the family support are weakening; Relationship between elderly and daughter-in-law, son-in-law is far better than parent-child relationship; Children bear the pressure of public opinion, but the elderly are still reluctant to return to family.This thesis is composed of five sections as follows:The first chapter is the preface. The preface introduces the main idea of the thesis, and notes the theoretical and practical significance on the study of family support.In the second chapter, the author reviews the status of research on family support, focus on the analysis of domestic family support research status, and notes that the existing problems,then finds the main concern of the article.In the third chapter, the author builds up the thesis' conceptual system,and decides on the research method centering on the quantitative.In the forth chapter, the author analyzes the content of children support, the gender difference of support, other relatives' supports, traditional culture factor of family support. It uses the first-hand data and information in detail.In the fifth chapter, the author concludes with the results.