| With the increasing proportion of elderly people and the population base,pension problems are becoming more and more notable,including a huge difference between the willing and the practical realities about residential problems of elderly people.On the one hand,China was influenced by the traditional Confucianism while traditional family value of China is the mutual love between parents and children,also need to carry out funerary duties.Older people are more willing to live with their children,at the same time,children also have obligations to support their parents,to take good care of their elderly parents.In a word,parent-child live together has always been a core family values in China.On the other hand,due to great social changes,mass migration movements and high-speed urbanization in 40 years,also with the implementation of the one-child policy,all these factors have brought the disintegration of the society,more and more children are left their parents,therefore elderly people can only be separated from their children and live alone,which leads to the phenomenon of "empty nest elderly".The situation that the willing of old people to live together with their child can not meet the reality that parent and child live separately,or the deviation between the willing and the practical realities about residential problems of elderly people for short.Through study the deviation between the willing and the practical realities about residential problem of elderly people,and search for the rational factors of the deviation.First of all,this article will review the Chinese and foreign scholars’ related research and opinions about this issue,including those research about living preference of elderly people and the trend of "empty nest" in China.According to observations of the scholars and based on the judgment of the residential situation of elderly people,I come up with three assumptions.This study based on the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study(CHARLS)data in 2013,and on the basis of basic information and living preference of older people,using quantitative analysis method to check three assumptions talked before,and list explanations through the significance of the data.Through quantitative analysis to find out if there are great difference of living preference in the elderly between the urban and rural areas,also to find out if marital status,sexuality,age and medical insurance will effect living preferences of older people or not,then summarize those questions of elderly living preference according to the analysis result.Finally,aiming at the pension problems which have been found during analysis,this article will provide a few suggestions towards this phenomenon from the prospective of social work major. |
