Study On The Pattern Of Mutual Support For The Aged In China’s Urban Communities

With the relatively low per capita urban income and even the low retirement income ofthe elderly under the social background of China, the era of the aging of urban population hassuddenly arrived at China. This kind of social status poses a tough challenge for the laggingsocial security system construction at the present stage. As the aging of urban population hasappaered under the background of the relatively poor elderly in China, and especially underthe background of the lagging social security system construction, the author specially selectsthe social security pattern of mutuial support for the aged in the urban communities to studyhow to improve the quality of later life of the urban elderly, to improve the elderly’spsychological well-being, and to effectively avoid the elderly’s psychological loneliness outof care, and the lack of life care, health care services, the entertainment for the aged, as wellas the beggar-thy-neighbor phenomenon among the older neighbourhoods in the urban areas.It can be seen from the preliminary investigation that the pattern of mutual support for theaged is of practical significance and theoretical research value. The urban citizens of Chinahave been pursuing the policy of population, One Couple One Child, in the past40years, oneof the results caused by which is to create a large number of421Families(including four oldpeople, two parents and one child). From a family perspective, the family, with one of or bothof the couple from one-child family, have to face the psychological comfort and life care ofthe elderly whose number is as two to four times as theirs except the regular eight-hour work.This kind of family support pattern can only be described by being powerless. Especiallyunder the background with the relatively poor per capita income and the lack of socialsecurity, as well as low security level in urban areas, it is of practical significance to promotethe mutual support for the aged in the urban communities and popularize the pattern of mutualsupport for the aged.The main research content of this paper can be divided into six parts. The first part,introduction, is mainly to elaborate the topic selection background, research significance andinnovations of the paper, as well as its related literature review, research methods andtheoretical basis. The second part, the current situation of exploration and practice on themutual support for the aged in the domestic urban communities, is mainly to introduce anddescribe the current situation of exploration and practice on the mutual support for the aged inthe four urban communities located in Qingdao, Yantai, Jiangsu and Beijing respectively, andgive objective evaluation for their common contribution on the social security theory, andthen summarize the main problems in the four urban communities’ exploration on the patternof mutual support for the aged. The third part, the major experience of mutual support for theaged in the urban communities, focuses on summarizing and elaborating the experience ofmutual support for the aged, which is promoted by the local governments in the four urbancommunities, through searching the information on the Internet and summing up the relevantliterature. The fourth part, the popularity conditions of mutual support for the aged in theurban communities, is aimed at refining the popularity conditions in the domestic urban communities through the present exploration experience at home and abroad, which canmainly analyzed from several aspects, such as the common values of mutual support for theaged in communities, and its financial support from local governments, organizationalsettings, skills training and public facilities’ network improvement. The fifth part, theplanning suggestions on the system for improving the pattern of mutual support for the agedin the urban communities, is mainly to put forward opinions and suggestions from differentangles, such as the specific planning scheme of local governments for mutual support for theaged, the guidance pattern of social media for mutual support of the elderly, the scientificmanagement of mutual support for the aged based on the urban communities, theinfrastructure construction of mutual support for the aged, and the responsibility performed bycommunities for mutual support for the aged.