Older Rural Women's Living Conditions And Social Support Study

With the accelerating arrival of aging society, as well as the rapid processing of urbanization development, rural old women's problem is growing highlights. Assisting the rural old women to alleviate their pressure of life, getting out of livelihood difficulties, enjoying their happy twilight years, should be the means of building the harmonious society of "people-oriented".This study bases on the theoretical perspective of social support, and uses the case study methods. As the subject of eighty at the age of over sixty years old village of old women X at Yulin City in Shaanxi Province. It describes the reality living dilemma of old women in the village of X. The vast majority of their are meager income, and the living standard is the lowest levels in the village of X; the majority of more than sixty years old are still work at the barren land, self-age pension has become the main way; fitting their social and cultural activity is very little, Widows and Orphans who remarried difficult, the spirit of loneliness; suffering from various diseases, poor living conditions. It analyses the social support system of the rural old women, I found the informal support system, particularly the home support of old women play a major role in financial support, take care of day-to-day and spiritual comfort. Therefore, from the formal support system take care of is few. I think the factors of porous formal support system of old women in rural areas mainly has the government policy design of the system deficiency, gender and cultural constraints, geographical remoteness, the weakening of traditional culture of filial piety, rural education and insufficient investment in cultural facilities and so on.To this end, the author put forward for the rural old women's social support network mode should be the government, non-governmental organizations, communities, families, relatives, friends, etc. constitute a pluralistic system; one of the government policies and systems resources to support or pillar-led, non-governmental organizations service support for the main, community and culture and education of regional resources such as health consultative support as the core, home care and emotional support for the foundation, relatives, neighbors and friends as an integral part of enthusiastic support; in particular, it should be set up government-driven rural old-age security system to fundamental change from the old women in rural lower income, as well as the survival of the resulting predicament.I believe that only established a wide range of social support network is to make the rural elderly women get out the heavy agricultural work emancipated, improve the quality of life in their twilight years, and achieve the essential requirements of people. in harmonious society.