Researches On The Community Sports Services For The Elders

With China' s continuous economic development and social progress, its population trends to be typically aging,which has the characteristics of large population scale,the size of the elderly,aging fast in the lower social development level and great disparity in aging between various regions,etc.This trend of aging is bound to impact on china' s economic and social development.At the same time,people have more and more realized the inestimable value of physical exercises and its effectiveness to the elderly.Currently,"the aging of the health of the elderly" advocated by China' s Senior Citizen Institute has become the basic strategy for China to meet the challenge of aging.Using the methods of documentary,interviews field visits and survey etc,based on the actual situation of Linfen,Shanxi province' s community sports services,the paper researched sports services for the elderly within the scope of the community' s neighborhood committee, investigated the situation of how the elderly do sports in groups and community sports services in Linfen city.Then,the paper found the gap between the needs of the elderly doing exercises and the real supplies of community sports services in present social productive forces background.It gave a step further to identify the main problems in the elderly community sports services.Through the analysis of the situation in Linfen city,the paper tried to find out the theoretical and empirical basis of the city community sports services developing strategy to establish in Linfen suitable elderly community sports services.The paper also discussed operating mechanism of Linfen elderly community sports services in order to help the government make relative policies,and provide communities with foundation to build their sports services; meanwhile,it offers a reference to the cities of similar economic level to Lifen.The study found many problems in Linfen community sports services. They are:Sports facilities for the elderly are so insufficient that the existing site can not meet the needs of old people;the elderly community sports organizations are immature and poor-managed;the training guidance of the elderly to do exercises are inadequate and their trainings are less scientific and purposeful which are hard to adapt to the elderly persons' requirements of physical exercises;sports information for the for the elderly is less disseminated;the elderly consume less on sports, to a certain degree,which limits the development of the elderly community sports;less capital form the society is invested into sports, etc.The paper put forward some advices to argue that the government is supposed to play the leading role to help improve community sports services,for example:to increase community sports facilities;to standardize the construction of them;to use rationally existing sports facilities;to make full use of public venues and facilities to share resources and maximize its use results;to encourage community profitable sports organizations,and expand investment channels to make up government' s funding inadequacy;to reform community management system and strengthen its functions;to change ideas and publicize sports to improve the elder]y persons' awareness to do sports;to settle policy orientation,running incentive mechanism;to see about the elderly person' physical demand and offer more sports services directly for the elderly etc.