A Comparative Study Of The Living Conditions Of Urban Elderly Between Different Living Arragements

In history, families take care of their parents by specific living arrangements. Morespecifically, the children accomplish this arrangement mainly by living with their parents.However, the forms and structures of China's family have changed a lot along withmodernization. It mainly shows in the living styles that evolved from simply living together todiversify living styles. Family distance has been greatly extended, and the member of samefamily may be scattered in different places. Living style of the old people will directly affectthe quality of their life. Therefore, this paper takes the living styles of the urban elderly as thekey point, investigates their needs and satisfactions status under different living arrangements,and studies the families'modern characteristic of our country.This paper employs a method of depth interview, labors resource flows between twogenerations and the satisfactions of the elderly under different living arrangements. It alsointerprets the modern characteristic that reflected by different living arrangements, such asintergenerational concept, status and so on. We will focus on this part. On this basis, we shallpoint out that the choice of the elders intergenerational relationship tends to be equal in ourcountry under the resultant force of tradition and modern. Living nearby is the choice aftersome level of rational and emotional consideration of the old people. At last, it gives somesuggestion about how to promote the rationalization of living styles, and I hope this attemptwill help to ease and solve the living problem of the elderly as well as the related academicstudy.