Study On The Moral Care For The Elderly

China entered the aged society since1999, and became the only country with more than100millions elderly population. There are more and more aged and disabled elderly people, how to improve their life quality is very important. As an important social and ethical practice, moral care is very effective to enhance life quality of the elderly. This study is pursued on the following four aspects.To begin with, what are the moral care and moral care for the elderly (Chapter II). Moral care refers to the government, or social organizations, or families and individuals give the economic and spiritual support to the elderly. Moral care for the elderly refers to the government, or social organizations, or family members of the elderly give the economic and spiritual support to the elderly. Let the elderly feel the care of the whole society, and gain respect as one of vulnerable group. Moral care for the elderly presents three basic features:natural attribute, social attribute and spiritual attribute. The contents of moral care for the elderly include the real interests of the elderly, the needs at different levels of the elderly as well as the comprehensive development of the elderly.The second is the relationship between moral care for the elderly and the life quality improving of the elderly (Chapter III). Life quality of the elderly is the effective degree of the elderly's supply from social resources and subjective satisfaction about that. Quality index system of the elderly's Life contains:quality index of economic life, quality index of intellectual life, quality index of health, quality index of family life, quality index of social environment. Moral care is a main line which runs through the quality index system of the elderly's life, it is an objective need to deal with ageing of population, and also a very important social ethics mechanism to enhance life quality of the elderly.The third is an analysis on the present status of life quality of the elderly (Chapter IV). This article result sums the important factors that affect life quality of the elderly in china up in three aspects:material support, spiritual support, life care.1, social pension security level shows big differences between urban and rural areas, and between gender divisions. The rural social pension insurance coverage is too low in country, and the material support condition for the elderly is poor than urban, especially for the female elderly.2, the present status of spiritual maintenance of the elderly is worrying.3, long-term care for the elderly lags far behind the demand. Because of the increase of the elderly and disabled population, and the formal care system is not perfect now, the function of informal care system keeps weakening with the reduction of family size, and therefore, long-term care supply for the elderly can not meet the corresponding demand.The fourth is the trinitarian network of moral care (Chapter V). Enhancing the life quality of the elderly is a social system engineering, it needs an all-around moral care form the government, society, and family. This article builds a trinitarian network of moral care, which has kind governance as a foundation, and community care as a practical way, and family support of old age as a realistic choice, and provides some feasible ways in social ethical practice to make sure all the elderly population can enjoy the fruits of the social development.