Research On Endowment Problems Of The Rural "Empty Nest"Old Man

Following the background of the "silver wave" sweeping the globe, the degree of the aging of population is deepened by gradually. With the developing and progressing of the domestic economy and society, the nursing for the rural empty nest problem is obvious. The urbanization in china is quickly advanced so that a large number of young rural labors flood into the urban areas and the number of the elderly in rural China goes up heavily as many as more than20millions now. As a objective social phenomenon, the problem of the empty nest elderly in rural China have been focused on increasingly and have to be solved urgently in the construction of socialist new countryside. So, the search on the living condition of the empty nest elderly in rural areas and the probing on the old-age security mechanism about them have great significance to the socialist new countryside construction and the problem of aging population in China.In this paper, L village, which belongs to Lvliang City, Shanxi Province, was selected to do a empirical research.we have investigated the basic living condition of the empty nest elderly people in China from four aspects including economic support, living care, spirit consolation and mutual assistance mechanism from outer communities. We found some problems in the old-age social security of the empty nest old people, such as weak economic supporting, failed living care, absent spirit consolation and unsound.social mutual assistance mechanism.In the end, the text puts forward to some solutions on the security problems of the rural empty nest old people in China. We advocate the government took its responsibility, the security function of family became stronger, sounded the social mutual assistance mechanism to shape a social security network for the empty nest old people in the rural areas of China.