| The urban empty-nest elderly population is emerging in the context of China’s rapid urbanization and rapid aging of the population,coupled with the help of the popularization of off-site employment of the labor force brought about by the wave of information and industrialization in recent years,it’s the urban empty-nesters that are getting more attention.According to the National Commission on Aging,in 2015,70 percent of households in big cities were empty nesters.According to relevant research,the number of the elderly population in China will reach about 300 million by 2030,and the proportion of empty-nest families among elderly families will further increase to 90 percent,all these indicate that the pattern of the elderly family in the future will change to the empty-nest family.China’s urban empty-nest elderly base is huge,the proportion of the population structure has increased year by year,showing an accelerated trend of development,which is the result of various social factors in the new era.Concrete analysis,with the deepening of China’s reform and opening up,the contemporary elderly have a great change in the concept,the elderly do not want to simply rely on children in the old-age issue,at the same time,the elderly people have a strong sense of security;The reality of a small family structure and a small number of children has already increased the pressure on the elderly to provide for their old age.In addition to the current situation of regional imbalance in China’s economic development,the young labor force has chosen to work in different places in order to pursue a higher quality of life,therefore,the phenomenon of empty-nesters in cities becomes more and more common..In this study,537 empty nesters over 60 years old in Shenyang City,Liaoning Province,were selected by random sampling,and questionnaire was used to investigate the related information of their pension needs,this paper analyzes the old-age preference of the empty-nest elderly in Shenyang.The main contents of the study included basic information(sex,age,education,number of children,medical insurance),economic status(annual income,medical expenses,self-evaluation of economic status),health status(type of illness,ADL,hearing and speaking disorder,self-evaluation of healthstatus),psychological status(loneliness,self-evaluation of living status)and so on.Chi-square test showed that there were significant differences in thegender,old-age willingness among different age,education,number of children,medical insurance,annual income,out-of-pocket medical expenses,self-rated economic status,type of illness,ADL,loneliness and self-rated living conditions of empty nest elderly institutions in cities,there were no significant differences in hearing,speaking impairment,and self-rated health status among urban empty-nest elderly institutions.The significant factors of the test results were included in binary Logistic regression analysis.The regression analysis showed that the old-age care intention of empty-nest elderly institutions was higher than that of women,the old-age care intention of empty-nest elderly institutions in Shenyang was negatively correlated with age,and the number of children was negatively correlated with the old-age care intention of empty-nest elderly institutions in Shenyang There were significant negative effects of out-of-pocket medical expenses on the willingness to provide for the aged in empty nest elderly institutions in Shenyang,positive effects of ADL on the willingness to provide for the aged in Shenyang empty nest elderly institutions,and positive effects of loneliness on the willingness to provide for the aged in institutions The lower self-rated living conditions were,the higher the willingness of providing for the aged in urban empty-nest elderly institutions. |
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