我国农村空巢老年人问题研究现状与评述

Research Status and Literature Reviews on the Problem of Empty-Nest Elderly in Rural China

随着我国经济社会的发展以及现代化、城市化进程的不断推进,农村空巢老年人这一群体的数量不断膨胀。与普通老年群体相比,农村空巢老年人在经济支持、照料支持和精神支持方面均存在风险。同时,在人口老龄化背景下,作为弱势群体中的弱势群体,农村空巢老年人该如何积极面对老年生活、健康幸福地安度晚年,是非常值得关注和研究的问题。通过对现存研究文献进行梳理和评述,对农村空巢老年人问题研究的过程及其概念、分类、成因、现状、对策等五方面进行了探讨和思考,并对此加以评述,以期为对该问题的深入研究提供借鉴和参考。

The amount of the empty-nest elderly in rural area increases rapidly with China's economic and social development as well as the advancement of modernization and urbanization. Compared with the normal elderly group, the empty-nest elderly in rural area are facing very serious challenges in the aspects of economic support, daily care, and emotional care. Meanwhile, with the background of population aging, it is necessary to study that how the empty-nest elderly in rural area could actively face their old age lives and spend their old age lives with healthiness and happiness due to the fact that they belong to the vulnerable group. This paper focuses on the considerationand discussion on the meaning, classiifcation, causes, current situations, and countermeasure of the empty-nest issues in rural area and gives some comments in order to do some preliminary reference work for further study.