China News Service, Taiyuan, January 22 (Yang Jing and Yang Jieying) China's aging is becoming more and more serious, and the number of left-behind elderly people in rural areas is increasing.
How to make them dependable and happy for their old age is an important issue in the process of our country's aging strategy.
On the 22nd, the two sessions of Shanxi Province were underway.
Ma Demao, deputy to the Shanxi Provincial People's Congress and secretary of the Party branch of Yanglebao Village, Nan'an Town, Wenshui County, Luliang City, suggested that we explore the establishment of a retirement system for rural laborers over the age of 60 to effectively solve the living difficulties of the elderly in rural areas.
With the increase in the proportion of urbanization in my country, the transfer of rural labor to the cities, the aging of the rural population, and the increasingly prominent problems of the elderly left behind in rural areas, such as the weakening of family pension functions, low social pension security, imperfect medical security, and lack of emotional sustenance Wait.
Ma Demao said that many elderly people who have lived in rural areas for a long time lack medical and health knowledge, do not pay attention to minor physical problems, and do not have the habit of regular physical examinations.
"Physical examinations such as chest CT can detect tumors and other diseases early and prevent serious diseases in advance, but the elderly are reluctant to pay thousands of yuan for a physical examination, and usually only carry out some simple free physical examinations."
He suggested that the government could subsidize part of the funds to help the elderly get a free physical examination every year to prevent diseases as early as possible.
Ma Demao believes that due to the underdeveloped rural economy and low local fiscal revenue, most farmers' pension payment base is low, and the coverage of the subsistence allowance policy is limited.
"The elderly in rural areas over the age of 60 have weak working ability and weak self-support ability. Although the state provides them with a subsidy of about 2,000 yuan every year, the life of the elderly is still relatively difficult." Ma Demao suggested that the state should provide them with appropriate pensions. , to increase pension funds for the elderly in rural areas.
As a village secretary who has been rooted in the countryside for 12 years, there are also many left-behind elderly people in Yanglebao Village, Nan'an Town, Wenshui County, where Ma Demao is located.
In 2011, Ma Demao advanced 1.1 million yuan to build a 6,700-square-meter Yanglebao Nursing Home in the local area, focusing on caring for the inconvenient elderly.
"Compared with the elderly care services enjoyed by the urban elderly, rural elderly care needs to attract more special attention and attention." Xu Yanping, a representative of the Shanxi Provincial People's Congress from Linxian County, Luliang City, used to be a nurse and took care of several elderly people in the city.
She believes that it is necessary to pay attention to the safety, diet and care of the elderly in rural areas.
Xu Yanping suggested that mutual assistance for elderly care in line with the actual situation in rural areas can be developed, and agriculture-related funds such as the construction of beautiful villages and the renovation of dilapidated rural houses can be integrated, the idle school buildings can be transformed into mutual assistance homes, and the elderly living in remote and inconvenient living areas in neighboring villages can be moved together. Residence and household living.
At the same time, a group of volunteers such as young elderly and left-behind women were launched to carry out the "young elderly" service for the "elderly elderly", so as to create an atmosphere and a fashion for mutual assistance in the elderly.
Xu Yanping believes that it is also possible to establish a happy dining hall for the elderly in rural areas, and set up public welfare posts for rural elderly care workers.
"There are many public welfare jobs in rural areas, but so far, there are no nursing staff positions for the elderly. Take Lvliangshan nursing staff as an example, some rural women who have participated in the training are limited by various conditions and do not have the conditions to go out. Xu Yanping suggested setting up public welfare posts for elderly care workers in rural areas. These women can provide living care services, medical care services, home services, agency services and information services for the elderly empty nesters.
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