At present, China has entered the rapid development stage of population aging. According to statistics and calculations, by the end of 20 12, the number of elderly people over 60 in China has reached1940,000, and will reach 243 million in 2020 and exceed 300 million in 2025. The elderly population is increasing, but the old-age care model has been impacted by two aspects: the traditional "raising children to prevent the elderly" model has gradually become an unbearable burden for young people because of the multiplication of "4-2- 1" families; Institutional pension has also formed a pattern of "public can't afford to live, private can't afford to live" due to financial problems.
The revision of the Law on the Elderly and the establishment of the Festival for the Elderly reflect the state's respect and protection for the legitimate rights and interests of the elderly, and also reflect the anxiety of China society about providing for the elderly. In recent years, "empty nesters" and "elderly people who have lost their independence" have hit our hearts again and again, while topics such as "delaying receiving pensions" and "providing for the elderly with housing" have touched sensitive nerves in society again and again.
Hot spot interpretation
The difficulty of providing for the aged is only reflected in two pressures: the survival pressure of the only child and the pressure of pension payment.
If you want to deal with the problem of providing for the aged, you can consider it from the following two aspects:
1. In family support, parents support their children without reservation, and children should support their parents in the same way. The Chinese nation has a tradition of paying attention to filial piety, but now it is necessary to force its children to "go home often" through legislation. This is not the glory of a complete legal system, but the shame of spiritual loss.
2. In terms of social pension, it is unrealistic to expect the state to increase investment to cover the basic pension in the short term; It is also unrealistic to expect for-profit private nursing homes to reduce their fees by a large margin. A more feasible way is for individuals and the state to donate some money to set up a "day care center" in the community to provide basic services for the elderly, such as dining and medical care. Because of the limited funds, the conditions must be relatively simple, but because of the simple conditions, all localities can do it at low cost.
As an important development goal established by the state, "a sense of security for the elderly" needs a whole set of institutional systems to support and maintain it. We should further optimize and improve the national pension system, vigorously develop pension services, and at the same time safeguard and carry forward the fine national traditions, and solve the problems facing the world with the wisdom of China. Only when the legal system is standardized, the government is dominant, and all social forces are mobilized to form a family-based multi-party participation and sharing pattern can the people's livelihood goals of providing for the elderly be truly realized.