隔代照料问题研究述评与政策思考——基于老年人力资源开发的视角

Review and Policy Refl ections on the Issue of Grandparents’Care-giving——Based on the Perspective of Aging Human Resource Development

老年人是重要的人力资源。家庭内部的隔代照料是老年人力资源开发的重要途径,可对推动女性就业、促进人口均衡发展和经济增长作出重要贡献。但隔代照料也会对老年人的身心健康产生积极或消极影响。本研究在借鉴国外隔代照料家庭支持政策的基础上,采用社会政策分析框架探讨我国隔代照料支持政策的发展思路。研究认为,应将隔代照料支持政策纳入各地“一老一小”整体解决方案和老年人力资源开发相关政策。未来应进一步分析老年隔代照料的经济价值,统筹考量其经济成本,多学科细化分析其社会性价值与成本,强化老年隔代照料的政策研究。

The older adults are important human resource.Grandparents providing care to grandchildren within the family is an important way to develop aging human resources,and has made signifi cant contributions to promoting female employment,improving birth policies and economic growth.Grandparents’care-giving,however,can also have positive or negative impacts on the physical and mental health of the elderly.On the basis of drawing lessons from foreign support policies for grandparents’care-giving,this paper uses the social policy analysis framework to discuss the implementation and research prospects of intergenerational care support policies.The study believes that the intergenerational care support policy should be incorporated into the overall solution of"the elderly and children issue"and policies related to aging human resource development.The study proposes that in the future,we should focus on further analyzing the economic value and cost of grandparents’care-giving,the social value and cost of grandparents’care-giving in a interdisciplinary perspective,and strengthen the policy research of grandparents’care-giving.