The Study On China's Rural Empty-nest Elderly

In today’s world, both developed and developing countries are facing varying degrees of aging. As a developing country, China is well-known populous country, facing the pension situation is grim, pension problem is also increasing concern by the parties. In China, nearly60%of the aging population, are located in China’s rural areas. At present, our society is in a transitional period.The deepening of the transition and socio-economic development, agricultural production methods are changed. With the reduction of family size in rural areas and increased population mobility in rural areas,there are more and more empty nesters. With the rural empty nesters’s increasing, the traditional family support of the functional is also weakening, which induce changes in rural old-age pension concept and rural social pension system.Above the background, Empty-nest families and empty-nesters are to be defined. and study a pension of China’s rural areas, empty-nesters. This reaserch discusses the aged caring way of empty-nesters in China’s rural areas. Based on the aged caring way at present from the rural empty nesters, the needs of the financial support and life caring and spiritual support to the empty-nesters in the rural areas, through traditional family aged caring, can not be satisfied. But the way of Aged Caring at Home can compensate for the lack of traditional family caring and welfare Institute caring. This reaserch draw the experiences of aged caring at home in some cities and a few pilot rural areas. Y village, for example, are uesd to analyze the advantages and feasibility of home care for the empty-nesters in rural areas. Through the observations and questionaires, we anlysize the situation of aged caring way to the rural empty-nesters.From long-term perspective, aged caring at home is an ideal choice for empty-nesters of rural areas. But there are many objective difficulties. to promote aged caring at home in rural areas. According to the experiences of Hong kong, etc. and many other countries, in order to implement aged caring at home,we should vigorously develop the rural economy. At the same time, government-leding, market participants, building the professional services team by taking full advantage of the rural social network of resources all are essential requirements.