Investigation Report Of The Aged Service For Rural Empty-nesters In Huachi County

Rapid industrialization and urbanization bring about economic transformation and social transition, aging population and smaller families overlapping with empty-nest families makes the contradiction of social pension needs and pension service more and more prominent. Dealing with the social structure of rapidly aging population has become the much important endowment work. Aging population problems relate to the stability of society and development. To effectively solve the elderly population’s pension problem will be the key point for our country’s old-age pension work.This thesis selected Huachi county as research site. By visiting 6 village groups, 252families(within 89empty-nest families),159 the old empty nesters, using quantitative and qualitative research methods to analyze the content obtained from questionnaire and the data and information of rural old empty nesters pension service provided by the county office, comparing self-support, family, community, government four pension bodies that to find out problems and reasons of local rural empty nesters pension service system.Last, according to Maslow’s hierarchy of needs, the new public service theory and good governance theory, drawing on mature experience in Japan, Singapore and Sweden, learning excellent practices of care services from some domestic areas, combining Huachi’s actual local pension work, the author puts forward suggestions and strategies to optimize rural empty nesters pension services. Through this thesis, we are hoping to provide some new useful insights and help to promote the quality of Huachi’s, or even more rural areas’ empty nesters pension service.