[Explanation] Pensions depend on "aunts" and "post-00s".
Recently, the first training course for college students' pension social workers in Shanghai was officially opened.
About 200 college students from 18 universities and 21 majors in Shanghai participated in the training.
According to Wang Songhua, Minister of Non-Academic Education at Shanghai Open University, these trainees will receive 40 hours of theoretical and practical training, and will give a more comprehensive explanation of the work scope, work content, and work methods of elderly care social workers.
A joint survey by the Shanghai Municipal Office on Aging, the Municipal Health Commission and the Municipal Bureau of Statistics shows that by the end of 2021, the number of elderly people aged 60 and above in Shanghai will reach 5.4222 million, accounting for 36.3% of the total registered population.
The huge elderly population base, coupled with the continuous iterative demand for elderly care services, put forward higher requirements for talents in the elderly care service industry.
Wang Songhua said that ordinary young people don't know much about the elderly care industry and have prejudice against the industry. Today's elderly care services are no longer limited to daily care and life care, but are extended to the "body, mind, spirit, social and social aspects of the elderly." "And so on.
The purpose of the training is to let young people truly understand the elderly care industry, and then attract more young talents to join the elderly care service industry.
[Concurrent] Wang Songhua, Minister of Non-Academic Education, Shanghai Open University
Pension work is a system. After more elderly people retire, how to spend most of their idle time, and how to communicate spiritually and spiritually, and how to solve some comfort problems, these problems belong to the category of pension work.
[Explanation] It is reported that among the 310 students who signed up this time, about two-thirds are college students, of which 50% are social work students.
Another third of the trainees are from pension institutions, and these personnel are involved in various positions such as management and front-line services.
Shen Jiaqi, a third-year student majoring in labor and social security at Shanghai University of Applied Sciences, deeply felt the content of the training course.
She said that although social workers have learned the relevant knowledge in the classroom, they have not been involved in the field of elderly care before. Such training has given her a more intuitive understanding of the field of elderly care.
[Concurrent] Student Shen Jiaqi
Because of the service-oriented talents, he actually needs not only a little professional knowledge, but also a great background for theoretical knowledge. You can't say that you only understand a little bit. It may be from why there is such an aging in our country, or Speaking of the background of the service, some nursing knowledge, and a little background are all that you need to know, so you need to be diligent.
[Explanation] Yin Kaiqi is a first-year graduate student of Social Work at East China Normal University in Shanghai.
In his view, signing up for this training course is to learn more theoretical and technical knowledge, cultivate one's own empathy, and better help disadvantaged groups in the future.
[Concurrent] Student Yin Kaiqi
In my own words, I am more interested in old-age care, and then I want to combine more theory and practice through this kind of study, and then better serve the elderly and bring them along with them.
[Explanation] Many elderly people who participated in the student training sighed that with young people, their mentality has become younger.
[Concurrent] Aunt Yu
We are also happy with them, we feel young and we don't feel old.
Aunt Pang
No matter which college students come to see me, they like me and think I like to take pictures of them.
[Explanation] It is reported that Shanghai Open University has carried out training for elderly care practitioners for two consecutive years, and has trained more than 4,700 elderly care practitioners.
Reporter Xu Mingrui reports from Shanghai
Responsible editor: [Ji Xiang]