| After the rapid development of reform and opening up,China’s economic development level has improved rapidly,and the problem of population aging has gradually become prominent.According to the results of the seventh national population census,we can understand that China has rapidly entered the aging society.The results show that the elderly population over 60 years old is 264 million,and the elderly population over 65 years old is 119 million,accounting for13.50%.Among the large number of elderly people in China,a large part of the elderly still live in rural areas with low material level and poor environmental quality,which not only means that most of the elderly people in China live in rural areas with poor living resources,but also means that the medical resources of these elderly people are relatively scarce.Not only that,because of the gradual increase in age,the physical health of the rural elderly is not as good as when they were young.In addition,both the flexibility of the body and the reaction ability of the brain are greatly different from those of the youth.Therefore,in the past,the friends and colleagues that the rural elderly met through working relationships in their youth will gradually alienate with retirement,which will lead to the narrowing of the social circle of the rural elderly and the shift of the focus of life to family relationships.However,the children are busy with work and cannot give enough attention to the rural elderly.In the long run,it will have a negative impact on the physical and mental health of the rural elderly.In the early stage,domestic scholars focused their research on the physical and mental health of the rural elderly mainly on the medical field,while few scholars focused on the perspective of social support.In recent years,with the deepening of the degree of aging in China,the issue of aging in China has become one of the topics that scholars cannot avoid.Many scholars have begun to attach importance to this field and hope to find ways to cope with the aging crisis.However,the rural elderly have not received due attention.Based on the survey data of CHARLS(2018),this paper sets the elderly over 60 years old in rural areas as the research object.Taking social support as an independent variable and divided into formal social support and informal social support,it is of practical significance to find ways to improve the physical and mental health of the elderly in rural areas.This paper uses factor analysis and logistic regression model to empirically analyze the impact of social support on the physical and mental health of the rural elderly,and analyzes the heterogeneity of the impact of social support on the physical and mental health of the rural elderly from the four dimensions of gender,age,income and living mode.The findings are as follows:(1)China’s rural areas mainly rely on children to provide support for the elderly,and formal social support is still weak.(2)The support provided by non-core family members and non-relatives has a positive impact on the physical and mental health of rural elderly.(3)The impact of social support on the physical and mental health of the rural elderly is different in gender,age,income and living mode.Therefore,this paper puts forward corresponding countermeasures and suggestions: to create a return to the culture of family filial piety in rural areas;Create an atmosphere of mutual help among neighbors;Improve rural security,adjust the intensity of security,etc.;At the same time,it is necessary to narrow the gap between urban and rural areas for the elderly and strengthen health security. |
