Research Of The Accessibility And Restrictive Factors In Public Sports Services For The Elderly

At present,the amount of old people in China is deepening with the change of time,and the aging problem and elderly health problem are highly concerned by the state,the government and the society.One of the more important parts of China’s public services,including services of public sports,which a important thing to solve the aging problem,to improve the happiness of the elderly,and to promote the active and healthy aging of the elderly.Based on the method of questionnaire survey,we conducted a questionnaire survey about the elderly over 60 years old in four districts of Shanghai,and studied the current development status of the accessibility of public sports services for the elderly in Shanghai and the influencing factors of the accessibility of public sports services.The conclusions are as follows:(1)At present,the accessibility of the elderly in public sports facilities and fitness monitoring is relatively good,and the satisfaction of the elderly who have received or used public sports services is relatively high.However,the accessibility in fitness organization,fitness training activities and sports information publicity is relatively low.Overall,the accessibility of public sports services for the elderly in Shanghai has the problems of unbalanced and insufficient development.(2)At present,there is unable to match between the actual demand of the elderly in Shanghai and the current supply of public sports services.There is a lack of services suitable for the characteristics of the elderly.At present,public sports services are unable to satisfy the multi-level and diversified demands of the elderly.(3)In fact,the public sports services provided by Shanghai have not been implemented.In terms of public sports services,great service strength make it up to at the national level,but the elderly still show low accessibility and insufficient acceptance in public sports services.For example,our country has a considerable scale in public sports fitness guidance,the number of community sports instructors,however,in the survey of actual,we know that the accessibility of fitness guidance is low,and nearly half of the elderly still do not receive professional fitness guidance services.(4)Because everyone’s life background and life experience are different,there is a large gap in the accessibility of public sports services among different elderly people.There are more diversified sports needs,and the personalized sports needs of some elderly people can not be met.Following advice are proposed based on the result of the research:(1)Strengthen the supervision system and improve the public sports service system for the elderly.(2)Building a comprehensive public sports information supply mechanism by integrating various resources.(3)Cultivating compound social sports instructors through cooperation.(4)Promoting the diversification of organizational activities by supporting the construction of fitness organizations for the elderly.(5)Strengthen the construction of sports infrastructure by combining the characteristics of the elderly.(6)Establish a diversified government performance evaluation mechanism to further improve the quality and level of monitoring services for the elderly.