The Mutual-Support Model of Elderly Care for Aged Farmers in Shandong Province

DOI

10.2991/assehr.k.210121.189How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Elderly care, Rural elderly, Mutual-support

Abstract

Since China entered the aging society, the aging process has been accelerating. Rural mutual-support model of elderly care is an important supplement to the traditional model called family elderly care in rural areas. Being rooted in the traditional network of neighborhood’s mutual assistance in rural areas, the essence of mutual support of elderly care lies in economic mutual assistance. It manifests itself in mobilizing social forces such as neighborhood and volunteers, making full use of the idle time of various human resources, mainly the elderly, and helping and serving each other at low cost. All walks of life should take it as an important implementation strategy and integrate it into the strategy of actively responding to population ageing and rural revitalization. The strategy of mutual-support elderly care can be summarized as follows: based on mutual financial assistance, focusing on mutual service, taking community home-based pension as the main position, it is to innovate various mutual-support elderly care models. Efforts should be made to form stable and diversified sources of funds, foster mutual aid teams, increase mutual aid content, and explore the establishment of standardized service management evaluation system. Institutional endowment and community endowment are interconnected and interoperable. Finally, it is essential to establish a circle-based, integrated, networked and institutionalized rural mutual-support elderly care system.

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Guangtao Zhou
PY  - 2021
DA  - 2021/01/23
TI  - The Mutual-Support Model of Elderly Care for Aged Farmers in Shandong Province
BT  - Proceedings of the 6th Annual International Conference on Social Science and Contemporary Humanity Development (SSCHD 2020)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 973
EP  - 978
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.210121.189
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.210121.189
ID  - Zhou2021
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