A Study On The Legal Protection For Spiritual Support Of The Elderly

In nowadays,the tendency of aging problem of China is becoming more and more severe.Up to the year of 2018,the aging population in their sixty's accounted for 17.9% of the whole population of China.The number of the empty-nest elderly in China is on the rise,because of the factors that the some adult children leave home to work in other cities,some just reside in other cities for marriage far away from the place where their parents live,and some emigrant to settle in foreign countries.Up to the year of 2013,the number of the empty-nest elderly in China had become over a hundred thousand,the number will be over two hundred thousand to the year of 2030.With the fast development of our country's economy,the substantial support of the elderly is basically solved,but the old's needs' for spiritual support is continually increasing.Based on the phenomenon of the aging problem becoming more and more severe and number the empty-nest elderly is always on the rise,the state revised “Senior Citizen's Rights and Interests Law”,and “Come Back Home Often ” was written in the eighteenth article in the new “Senior Citizen's Rights and Interests Law”,and the new law was implemented in the year of 2013.Spiritual support was brought into line with the government by law by legislators ever since,and spiritual support of the elderly was protected by the law.The action embodied people in different fields paid high attention on spiritual support of the elderly.The eighteenth article of “Senior Citizen's Rights and Interests Law” was difficult to implement and carry out,because the article has many defects,such as the subject of duty was unidentified,neither the content of spiritual support and legal liability,etc.The essay will first demonstrates the current situation of spiritual support is not optimistic through typical cases,then argue the necessity of spiritual support through analyzing the realistic basis and theory basis of the elderly's spiritual support.Through pointing out problems in the elderly's spiritual support and studying experience of spiritual support abroad,the essay suggests that on the dominance of family support we may explore new way of spiritual support for the elderly.Finally,the essay put forwards the imagination of legal protection and relief approach of the old's spiritual support to make the old have the legal basis of protecting their rights,and have suitable laws for spiritual support relief,thus making the rights of spiritual support of the old realize.