STS观照下的老龄化:经验与启示

Ageing in the perspective of STS: Experience and enlightenment

全球人口结构的老龄化将是本世纪最重要的社会变革之一。这种势不可挡的人口结构变革是所有工业化国家应对的社会挑战,也将成为发展中国家无法回避的问题。西方国家早于我国进入人口老龄化时代,他们创造性地融汇了科学、技术与社会(STS)各要素于一体,通过运用科学技术辅助支持老龄人口生活,对缓解老龄化所带来的危机发挥了重要作用,对我国解决好人口老龄问题具有积极的借鉴意义。应当给予我国人口老龄化存在的"未富先老"的特殊性以高度重视,积极推动科学技术在科学处理老龄化问题中的运用,化解人口老龄化所带来的危机、以期实现"积极老龄化"的战略目标。

The ageing phenomenon in the global demographic structure will be one of the most important social changes in this century.This fierce demographic transformation will become serious social challenges in all industrialized countries and will become an issue that developing countries cannot avoid.The Western countries have entered the aging era earlier than China and they have creatively integrated the good STS elements plus assistive technologies to assist and intervene in the life of the aged and alleviate their aging crises,which can shed much light on the solutions of the aging problems in China.It should be stressed that the particular problem of the poor aged in China should receive proper concern,and it is also necessary to explore the interactive role of science and technology in solving aging problems and realizing the strategic goal of“active aging”.