[Xiaokang China] Post-80s Youth Multi-channel Study: Creating Intimate Services for the Elderly

  [Commentary] After eating breakfast, rub a few laps of mahjong, then sing and sing a dragon gate array...June 13th, at the senior care service center in Guanshanhu District, Guiyang City, Guizhou Province, the elderly live on the weekends Under the leadership of Yang Fanjia, it was officially opened.

  [Commentary] Yang Fanjia, 31, has been working in the pension service industry for four years. In high school, by chance, Yang Fanjia came into contact with the elderly care service industry. Due to the immaturity of the various models of elderly care institutions at that time, Yang Fanjia made up her mind to change the concept and mode of elderly care at that time. Road to the study of elderly care services in 2014.

  [Same period] Yang Fanjia, Deputy Dean of the Senior Care Service, Senior Care Service Center, Guanshanhu District, Guiyang City, Guizhou Province

  Many years ago, my own family went to a nursing home for special reasons. At that time, my feeling was quite unsatisfactory. I was thinking about my parents, what should I do when my grandma and grandma are old? Because of this idea, I decided to study in Japan at that time, and I studied this major. I am a native of Guizhou, so after graduation, I returned to China and came here (Guiyang).

  【Explanation】In the four years of work, Yang Fanjia has accumulated through studying abroad, and the conversation with the elderly in the service center on weekdays. She constantly sums up her experience and improves the services provided by the elderly. The old people have a comfortable life, and Yang Fanjia also gained a sense of identity from this profession.

  [Same period] Yang Fanjia, Deputy Dean of the Senior Care Service, Senior Care Service Center, Guanshanhu District, Guiyang City, Guizhou Province

  When I first returned to China, others would say, how can you be a pensioner? After learning so much, you will feel that this job is very ununderstood. With so many years of work, others will feel that you are actually in a retirement agency. This job is too great. This job is very good. That kind of change actually made me think that future pensioners should be more and more happy.

  [Commentary] From the mention of nursing homes, I feel shy to talk about the happiness of old-age life now. Yang Fanjia witnessed the change of the old-age service center's old people and their family's thinking on old-age service. In Yang Fanjia's view, elderly care services have become a manifestation of the improvement of people's happy living standards.

  [Same period] Yang Fanjia, Deputy Dean of the Senior Care Service, Senior Care Service Center, Guanshanhu District, Guiyang City, Guizhou Province

  She no longer simply enjoys clothing, food, and living, but will more consider her spiritual culture. Then we also start from the sector of institutional pensions. There are many aspects and elements of day care, home pensions to satisfy our Grandparents have made their lives more and more abundant, and from the habit of our grandparents wearing clothes, black and gray, slowly moving to color, this is also a kind of witness to the elderly for so many years A change in old-age care and ideas. These many small stories and small details have made us feel that our country is getting better and better and life is getting happier.

  [Explanation] The regularity of three meals, a rich entertainment and cultural life, and a superior environment for the elderly. Nowadays, in elderly care centers, the smiles of the elderly are the most seen, and the praises of the elderly and their families are heard the most. At the end of the interview, the old people asked the reporter to record their inner gratitude and joy with the camera.

  [Same period] 84-year-old Li Suyun, Senior Care Service Center, Guanshanhu District, Guiyang City, Guizhou Province

  Personally, I have reached a well-off living standard, why? Now the state gives us good treatment, 8-9 thousand (retirement salary), the doll is also very good, my two children. I live here very regularly every day. I have to read newspapers and listen to news broadcasts. I also have to learn a lot of knowledge on my mobile phone. I also play mahjong, do handicrafts, and participate in book clubs.

  [Same period] 79-year-old Sun Shulan, Senior Care Service Center, Guanshanhu District, Guiyang City, Guizhou Province

  China's (old-age) system is very good, so that when we are old, in the last stop of our lives, we always feel happy and happy when we have needs, enjoyment and enjoyment.

  (Reporter Yuan Chao Guiyang reports)

Editor in charge: [Wang Kai]