The Research On The Demands For Community Welfare Services Of Urban Senior Citizens

With the population aging, the aging of the aged and the gradually aggravating phenomenon of empty-nest, the pattern of providing for the aged in China has also made some corresponding adjustments, evoluting from family supporting to social providing step by step. Among the mixed social providing subjects, community is playing a more and more important role.The providing function containing in the community welfare services has the unique advantages. So, the community welfare service not only receives the senior citizens' approval and acceptance but also more and more emphasizing from the government. From the angle of theory researching, the community welfare service accords with the declining trend of the function of family supporting and the viewpoint that social welfare should be supplied by mixed subjects. In terms of practical significance, the community welfare service is one component part of social security system. It could advance the pattern of providing for the aged to develop towards the socialization direction through absorbing more social supporting resources based on the community platform. And it could alleviate the government's pension pressure through compensating or replacing the increase in the pension by service supply. From the aspect of needs of the senior citizens, the community welfare service could meet the senior citizens'needs more effectively, directly and concretely than other ways. So, the community welfare service has very important value of theory, research and application.The demands for services of senior citizens are the aims of implementing community welfare services, the core of practiciing the concrete services and the basis of designing and formulating some related service programs and social policies. Therefore, to grasp and understand the senior citizens'demands situation for community welfare services could guarantee the community services to be able to meet various needs of the senior citizens, meanwhile, could supply critical references and important proofs for the community welfare services'implementating and the related social policies'drafting and drawing up.The research subject of this article is the demand situation for the community welfare service of urban senior citizens. This study takes the M community in Jinan as a case. The paper measures the demanding situation of urban senior citizens for different service modules and the disparities of demanding-degree sorting among different age groups through quantitative investigation. The research discoveries that both the realizing and participating rate of the six modules of the community welfare services are low. Although the protential demanding rate is large, the valid demanding rate is not high. The no-demanding reasons mainly focus on the individual and family aspects, but the effecting factores of demanding-degree mainly focus on the personal and community aspects. Meanwhile, the paper realizes the disparities of demanding-degree sorting among different age-sections. There are many similarities in the demanding situation for six service modules between 60-69 years old group and the 70-79 years old group. Sorting by demanding-degree from high to low, the sequence of services is entertainment and physical exercise service, education and training service, spirital consolation service, medical and health-keeping service, re-employment service, care service. That is to say, the 60-79 years old group demand more community entertainment and physical exercise service and education and training service than the other modules services. And the sequence of 80 years old and over 80 years old group is care service, entertainment and physical exercise service, education and training service, medical and health-keeping service, re-employment service, spirital consolation service. That is to say, the over 79 years old group demand more community care service and entertainment and physical exercise service than the other modules services. Moreover, the community care service soars to the first demand of over 79 years old group from the sixth demand of 60-79 years old group. In addition, the author discovers that there is a kind of regular sequence and a special interruption during the period of help seeking and satisfaction obtaining. Finally, This paper attempts to proposes a concept "resorting sequence" and constructs a schema graph to explain and show the help-seeking sequence and the satisfication-obtaining route of the senior citizens' service demands according to the related thoughts of "Chaxu Geju" and "help-seeking model" Afterwards, the author poses some discussion from three aspects, the community welfare services needing to prevent sone developing trends, the community welfare services being able to slow down the externalization of family providing function and the concept application in the field of social policy in the future.