Study On Options Of Community Care Service And Its Influencing Factors By The Rural Elderly

The percentage of senior citizens population and aging degree, compared with the whole Chinese population, has continuously increased leading to pension issue becoming a hot social issue of common concern. Compared with the towns, the population-aging problem in the rural area is more serious, coupled with the increasing miniaturization of rural development and rural households "empty nest" of the elderly so that impairing traditional family support functions to take care the senior citizens, especially the rural elderly issues. Development of rural communities care services in order to solve the pension problems for the elderly in the rural areas is crucial to achieve social stability and development. At this stage, the development of community elderly care services in rural regions of China is in the initial stage, there are many problems and challenges waiting for us to solve so how to effectively promote the development of elderly care services in rural communities getting the focus from scholars in order to figure it out in the coming future.This study has used literature research method, questionnaire surveys method, case interviews method, and quantitative analysis method, based on the theory of Maslow’s hierarchy of needs, community care and welfare pluralism, integrated into the domestic and international scholars’ achievement of the research on the old-age community service and used the survey data of Jiangsu Province countryside to analyze the current situation of the rural elderly life, the development of the rural community old-age service at present stage, options of the community care service and its influencing factors by the rural elderly.Firstly, based on the survey data, this survey has analyzed the current situation of the rural elderly life in Jiangsu from four aspects like the economic support, life care, physical therapy care and spiritual comfort, and the development of the Jiangsu province rural community old-age service at present stage from several aspects like rural old-age service policy and infrastructure development situation, the rural elderly cognitive status, using status and satisfaction of community care service. And this study also had found the problems in the current rural community care service development, like cognitive deficiencies, low degree of professional service personnel, services and facilities not perfect and low level of social problems in Jiangsu province.Secondly, at the fundament of analysis the condition that the rural elderly select community care service, this article used the Logistic model for the regression analysis that what is the selection situation for the community care service of the rural elderly. The research has found that the possibility of the rural elderly selecting the community care service is affected obviously by number of children, annual household income, the help of the village committee, if with the senior center, the comprehension of community care service, and the regional factors. In addition, the effects of gender, age, and health condition are non-significant.In the end, according to above analysis, this paper put forward several suggestions to promote the development of rural community care service of Jiangsu Province:we should form the overall train of thought, like "government-led, social participation, family support," and to be more specific, we should improve the awareness of rural residents of community care service, perfect the community care service facilities, set up the service content reasonably strengthen the construction of Service team, establish suitable service mode for rural community endowment, etc.