Research On The Services For The Aged People In Religious Institutions

The rapid aging process makes the services for the aged people faces many reality difficulties, it has become a major problem in front of all the social public. By the power of government alone is difficult to solve it, it need to encourage various social forces to join in starting a senior center. In this context, the religious itself has a very strong social and charitable, therefore, religion adapt to the needs of society to participate in the services for the aged people. Since the reform and opening, religious groups has widely participated in charitable activities, it plays an important role in social services. Depth study of the advantages of services for the aged people in religious institutions and the constraints which can make religious senior center more institutionalized and standardized, legal, professional direction, and also it has important theoretical significance, practical significance and policy value.In this paper, it takes three catholic senior center for examples, coupled with the methods of literature research, empirical analysis and interviews to get a lot of first-hand information. It describes the operating conditions of the catholic senior center in Liaoning Province in detail and summed up the advantages and the constraints of the catholic senior center. Finally, put forward some suggestions from the policy level, the social level and religious senior center.