An Empirical Study On Rural Elderly Mutual-support

Mutual-support is an significant action to solve the rural pension problem.?Thirteenth five-year plan about national aging undertaking development and pension system construction?mentioned:To strengthen rural pension services.To actively provide pension services for rural elderly who is low-income,elderly,living alone,disabled,incapacitation.Through the way of helping each other in neighbours,relatives and friends,voluntary service,and developing rural mutual-support institution etc.,to develop rural elderly mutual-support service.F county in Hebei province initiated rural elderly mutual-support in 2008,built together,living together,self-secuity,mutual-support service,and is endowed with demonstration significance.The study takes F county for example,Starting from the old in benefit,carryies out the questionnaire survey and case interview,explores the status quo,assesses the effect.In the end,the study makes a summary on this pension model,to explore the value,problems and obstacles,and puts forward measures and suggestions.This study shows that:(1)In the aspects of rural mutual-support institution,sources of funds show multivariate,infrastructure improves incrementally,operations management becomes standard,many groups participates in the service,the service function is expanding,operation mechanism is better;(2)In the aspects of elderly mutual-support,almost all old man agree with this mutual mechanism,mutual-support frequency is high,mutual-support service nvolves life care,medical care,spiritual comfort and leisure entertainment;(3)In the aspects of the old man life's change,for old people who live alone,their family ties,person asked for help,living conditions,living expenses,medical services,leisure,mental state are all improved in different degrees;(4)In the aspects of the old man's life satisfaction,they are satisfied,but there are a lot of room to improve.Age,health,frequency of enjoying the service of others,types of mutual-support services,all have a significant impact on the old man's life satisfaction;(5)In the aspects of the subjective evaluation of related groups,government workers and village cadres point out its role,also indicate some problems;The old man's children no longer worry about the safety of the old man,the psychological problems and living conditions etc.;The old man outside rural mutual-support institution have a positive attitude,also some people reject this endowment patterns.The author makes a summary on rural elderly mutual-support:rural elderly mutual-support achieves win-win on individuals,families,government and the social four aspects,but there are still some problems,for example,coverage is limited,lack of national policy support,shortage of funds,service is not professional.Finally,the author puts forward measures and suggestions,for example,starting from solving practical problems the old man,clearing the government responsibility,to establish long-term effective mechanism of capital injection,to perfect the system of the mutual.