Research On The Influence Of Village Regulations On Rural Home Care For The Elderly

Rural population is huge.Compared with the town,the speed of aging in rural areas is much faster.However,the rural resources for the aged cannot be compared with the town.Although social security system has been formally involved in rural areas,older farmers still rely mainly on the family,which is based on the intersexual relationship and blood relatives.Home care is the renewal of the traditional family model for the aged.The aged living in the home,supported by the family and social security system,make full use of community formal and informal resources to meet their different needs of the care for the aged.Home care,widely promoted in rural areas,is a combination of family and social care for the aged.The village regulations,as a part of socialism with Chinese characteristics,can play an active role in the construction of rural family civilization.They are effective supporting resources for the rural aged and can escort the rural home care.Baoshan Village of Pengzhou is known as the “Frist Village in Western Mountain”.Its practice of village regulations and home care has a strong representation,demonstration and promotion.Based on the analysis of the origins,changes,contents and characteristics of Baoshan village regulations,the writer conducted a questionnaire survey and “purpose sample” interview with the Baoshan villagers who are aged 60 or more than 60 years old.The survey and analysis results show that the Baoshan villagers have a great recognition of their village regulations.It is the village regulations that can change the villagers' behavior to a certain extent and can promote the construction of good rural civilization.Home care for the aged in Baoshan village has been an effective combination of family care and social support.It has been with the basic elements of home care and is developing well.Further analysis of the coupling mechanism between the village regulations and the home care shows that they are different and interrelated.During their implementation,they can be combined together and can promote mutually.First of all,the “filial piety” values in the village regulations can directly provide positive energy for the home care.Secondly,both of them mention the aged and can provide the aged with supports.In addition,the village regulations are on behalf of the community will.They can determine the degree that the community provides supports for the aged.At the same time,village regulations can constrain or advocate the aged social network to provide social support for them.Finally,they can be matched in the content with different degrees.On the one hand modern village regulations take national laws as the background and on the other hand they take “local elites”as their main promoters.Just because of these,the authority of village regulations can be ensured and the villagers can convince and comply with these village regulations.The incentive and restraint mechanism of the village regulations can not only have a positive effect on the family support from the front,but also can affect the social support of the home care from many aspects.The resultant force formed by this mechanism can guarantee and promote the rural home care.The organic coupling between the village regulations and the home care can not only meet the multiple needs of the aged,but also can greatly affect in the rural home care.Therefore,according to the villages' local situation,it is necessary to actively revise the village regulations to make each item precision,specific and have clear reward and punishment.By this way,the village regulations can really become effective basis to solve the practical problems of the aged.While village regulations should be vigorously propagandized through the modern media.Its spread should be expanded and its heritage should be enhanced.Simultaneously it can help to enhance the social integration of the floating population.Last but not least,to strengthen the implementation and supervision of the village regulations and to pursuit its fair can help to establish its authority.Then the village regulations can escort the rural home care better and better.