Construction of urban community care service in our country-- Based on survey of empty nesters in Beijing Beixinqiao Street

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10.2991/icemeet-16.2017.114How to use a DOI?

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pension service; empty nesters; Beixinqiao Street

Abstract

The April 2011 sixth census data showed that 0-14 years old accounted for 16.60% of the total population, down 6.29 percentage points than in 2000; 60 years and above accounted for 13.26% of the total population, up 2.93 percentage points than in 2000; 8.87% of the population aged 65 and above of the total population, up from 1.91 percent in 2000. Young and old ratio is seriously imbalanced, the aging process of the population is obviously fastened. In the family structure, the average population per household is 3.10 people, down 0.34 than in 2000. The proportion of nuclear families decreased significantly, single-person households increased significantly. With the weakening of family pension, social pension costs too high, insufficient supply, community services for the aged gradually coming into sight in recent years, and become a focus in recent studies. Based on this, the analysis found the following issues need to be solved: gradual weakening of family support services, community home care model needs to be improved and the quality of social pension institutions still need to be enhanced. This paper took Beixinqiao Street empty nesters as subject for the survey, taking the elderly demand as the starting point, to orient in meeting the needs of the elderly. It investigated over their living conditions, mental status, and many other aspects, then analyzed and summarized the demand of Beixinqiao Street empty nesters for elderly services, trying to explore for the most suitable community home-based care model for the status quo.

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© 2017, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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AU  - Huizi Sun
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TI  - Construction of urban community care service in our country-- Based on survey of empty nesters in Beijing Beixinqiao Street
BT  - Proceedings of the 2016 2nd International Conference on Economics, Management Engineering and Education Technology (ICEMEET 2016)
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SN  - 2352-5398
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