晚年何以幸福:农村空巢老人养老困境及其治理

How To Be Happy In Later Years: The Dilemma of Rural Empty Nest Old Age Care and GovernanceMeasures

随着经济社会的发展以及新型城镇化的快速推进,农村空巢老人如何养老成为严峻的社会问题,如何实现农村空巢老人晚年幸福也成为亟待解决的重要课题。农村老人养老已经从过去的私人事务变成了社会公共事务,特别是对于农村空巢老人养老,更应积极寻求治理之策。农村空巢老人养老面临的主要困境是经济供给不足、生活缺乏照料以及精神缺乏慰藉。困境的成因包括家庭养老功能的弱化、农村养老体系不完善、农村公共服务水平落后以及传统养老观念的式微等。对此,应通过乡村产业振兴促进农村经济发展,完善农村养老体系,提升农村公共服务水平,建立并弘扬现代孝道文化。

With the development of society and the rapid progress of new-type urbanization, how to care the rural empty nest elderly has become a serious social problem, and how to achieve happiness of them has also become an important topic to be solved urgently. Rural elderly care has changed from past private affairs into social public affairs, especially for the rural empty nest elderly care, we should actively seek governance measures. The main difficulties for rural empty nest elderly include insufficient of economic supply, lack of life care and shortage of spiritual comfort, The causes of the dilemma include the weakening of family care function, the imperfection of rural elderly care system, the backwardness of rural public service level and the decline or traditional pension concept. In this regard, we should promote the developmenr of rural economy through the revitalization of rural induslries, improve the rural care system, improve the level of rural public services, and promote the modern filial piety culture.