The Welfare Supply Function Analysis Of The Elderly Association In Village Field

The problems on aging of population are challenging the countries all over theworld, especially the developing counties. Some studies show that our country willenter the aging society before becoming rich. Therefore, it’s becoming quite importantto deal with the problems from the aging of population and solve the problems ofelderly social security and social welfare. Currently, our social welfare supplyingsystem mainly meets the needs of elderly in the city. Viewed from the urban-ruraldifference, the supplying situation in city is better than that in village; viewed from thecontent, material supplying is greater than the non-material supplying.Under the conditions above, how we can find a suitable way to provide socialwelfare to the old in rural area during the process of the new village construction? Thisis a true problem we have to face. From the practice of the new village construction inLankao, we found the elderly association, an important content in new village cultureconstruction. Through reviewing the development of the elderly association and itsvillage social effect, we found elderly association met the needs of the elderly in manyaspects, such as material-dependent welfare, culture and entertainment benefits,welfare of learning and developing, welfare of meaningful of life, welfare of socialcommunication requirements, welfare of harmonious family etc.At present, most studies on the elderly associations mainly focus on its guidanceto village stability and harmony as well as its assistant role in government elderly work.It’s rarely to see any description on the function of elderly association. So this paperwill show you more about this part. Under the construction of new village, the elderlyassociation indeed supplies many kinds of welfares for the elderly. Besides improvingthe functions of social welfare, improving the living conditions and enhancing theconsciousness of the old, the elderly associations have also had positive effect on the construction of active and healthy village culture, orderly village life, increase ofyoung people’s lives expect, improvement of village moral atmosphere andintergenerational relations in the families. In the future, the elderly welfare will surelybe supplied by the government, market and social communities together, which willpowerfully solve the problems of population aging and finally realize the dream of“low consumption, high welfare” in the elderly welfare field.