支撑中国式现代化:老年学自主知识的政策叙事

Supporting Chinese Modernization:Policy Narratives of Independent Knowledge of Chinese Gerontology

超大的老年人口数量、超快提高的老年人口比例与史无前例的老龄社会之风险,是我国全面推进中国式现代化新征程中的新人口国情。应对超老龄社会的大变革并实现中国式现代化,正在成为构建中国老年学自主知识体系的战略使命与学科自觉。反思西方老年学知识建制始终与老年医学相伴发展,聚焦于年龄/衰老/老年人的学理内涵,在学科实践上从未掀起过老龄化社会变革或老年社会福祉大转型。新中国成立以来,中国老年学在接受、跟随与学习西方老年学的同时,以政策叙事推动自主知识的体系建构。在以新生命政治讲好中国故事的叙事目标下,中国老年学自主知识体系构建出支撑中国式现代化的、全社会全人群和全生命周期的、多层次与跨学科的政策叙事框架,为强国建设与民族复兴贡献应对老龄化国家战略的知识生产与中国创新。

The large scale of the elderly population,the rapid growth rate of the proportion of the elderly population,and the significant risk of an unprecedented aging society constitute the new national population situation as China comprehensively advances on the new journey of Chinese modernization.Dealing with the major changes brought by the rapidly aging society and achieving transcendence in Chinese modernization are becoming strategic goals and disciplinary consciousness in constructing an independent knowledge system in gerontology in China.Reflecting on the fact that Western gerontology has always developed alongside geriatric medicine,focusing on the theoretical connotations of age/aging/the elderly,it never sparked a revolution in aging society or a major transformation in elderly social welfare in disciplinary practice.Since the founding of New China,while Chinese gerontology has been accepting,following,and learning from Western gerontology,it has been promoting the construction of an independent knowledge system through policy narratives.Under the narrative goal of tlling the Chinese story with a new life political perspective,Chinese gerontology has constructed a policy narrative framework that supports Chinese modernization,is multi-level and interdisciplinary,covering all of society,all age groups,and the entire lifecycle.This framework contributes to knowledge production for national strategies to address aging and Chinese innovation,thus making contributions to national rejuvenation and strengthening the nation.