The Research Of The Establishment Of The Index System Of The Urban Elderly People’s Spiritual Life

Aging of Population makes the demand of the elderly people increases. This demand is diverse, not only in material terms, but also contains the spiritual needs. Therefore, we should pay enough attention to the material life of the elderly as well as the spiritual life. The national, the society, the community, the family and the elderly people themselves should consciously to improve the quality of spiritual life. In this way we could establish a society which is people-oriented and for all ages. In order to achieve this goal, study of elderly people’s quality of spiritual life is very necessary.In this paper, on the basis of summing up relevant literature of the quality of the spiritual life and according to the characteristics and needs of the urban elderly people’s spiritual life, the writer clarifies the impact factors of the quality of spiritual life. These factors include the individual mental status, the family, the community and neighborhood, and social organizations. The writer does a further study about the meaning, the content and the quantitative method of these factors, and then builds an assessment index system. Based on the investigation of Changsha elderly, the writer applies the multivariate statistic analysis and the graded and weighted method of point rating to assess the quality of spiritual life for urban elderly living at home.