给岁月以生命:自我养老之精神和智慧

Give Life to Years:the Spirit and Wisdom of Elderly Self-care

自我养老作为一种养老元素、养老方式和养老精神正在伴随人口老龄化和居家空巢化而迅速崛起。本文探讨了自我养老的涵义和重要性,自我养老与老年人生命质量和生活质量的关系;积极的自我养老就是自强不息、刚健有为和有备而老,坚持“精神自养”和“生活自理”;基于若干个案的分析揭示了自我养老精神实质就是不言老、不服老、不怕死、生命的自我负责和生活的自我料理等;自我养老的智慧就在于能否处理好几种养老的关系,如养老与生命、生活等的关系。概言之,自我养老就是“给岁月以生命”的养老精神和养老方式。

As a kind of eldercare element,eldercare mode and eldercare spirit,"self-supporting" is rising rapidly with the aging of population and the empty-nest at home.This paper discusses the meaning and importance of self-supporting and the relationship between the quality of life and the quality of living of the elderly.Active self-supporting means to constantly strive for self-improvement,to be vigorous,to be promising and to be prepared for old age,and to insist on "spiritual self-support" and "self-care in life";Based on the analysis of several cases,it reveals that the essence of self-supporting spirit is not to speak of old age,not to be afraid of old age,not to fear death,self-responsibility of life and self-care of living.The wisdom of self-supporting lies in the ability to deal with several old-age care relationships,such as the relationship between old-age care and life,living and so on.In a word,self-supporting is to give life to the years of the spirit and way of supporting the elderly.