China Youth Daily·China Youth Daily reporter Li Chenhe
The total population of my country aged 65 and above reached 176 million in 2019, accounting for 12.5% of the total population.
Not only that, the old-age dependency ratio (that is, the ratio of the middle-aged population of the non-working-age population to the working-age population) rose from 10.7% in 2005 to 17.8% in 2019.
The average life expectancy of Chinese residents has reached 77.3 years, and old-age care is not only about our elders, but also about everyone's future.
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The elderly care industry, dealing with the elderly every day, sounds like "darkness", but in fact it is a real sunrise industry.
Clear development prospects and huge demand for talents attract people to join them.
More and more young people join, and what kind of color will this sunset red add?
Sunrise industry sunset red
Tan Meng, born in 1999, has long decided to join the pension industry.
The industry’s high employment rate, relatively good remuneration and prosperous development prospects all show a sunny temperament.
Shen Xiaojiao, the nursing supervisor of Beijing SDIC Health Elderly Apartments, has worked in the hospital for more than ten years, and formally joined the elderly care industry in May 2018.
In the view of Shen Xiaojiao's former colleague who resigned and changed careers, pension has always been a sunrise industry.
Xu Fen, who volunteers at the Rainbow Bay Welfare Home for the Elderly in Hongkou District, Shanghai, once thought that the nursing home was still what she had remembered: mostly bedridden, sick and even widows.
Unexpectedly, nowadays, elderly people with free mobility and clear minds account for a large proportion.
They are even more fashionable than themselves: some do manicures, some learn to dance, draw, write, do exercises... The schedule is very full, and they will introduce new things to their sons, daughters, grandchildren.
So much so that many of the "strategies" she envisioned before she came in, many of them didn't come in handy.
Accompanying the elderly brings unexpected gains to the young volunteers.
A slow passage from a grandma took away the big troubles in Luo Qing's life, who also worked as a volunteer at the Rainbow Bay Welfare Institute.
"A person's life is very long. Sometimes when I am anxious to find the wrong person, it is better to train myself. The right person will always appear. This kind of thing is not anxious." Luo Qing said, work is sometimes unhappy. When grandparents stay together, they immediately enter another relatively relaxed state and forget these unhappy things.
According to data released by the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security at the press conference of the State Council Information Office on October 28, my country’s pension fund balance reached 4.5 trillion yuan, and the pension industry has extremely high market value and development potential.
In April last year, the 88-year-old Bao Mengzhou and his wife moved into the Beijing SDIC Healthy Elderly Apartment after many inspections.
Medical staff accompany you to see a doctor and help take medicine; they are on duty 24 hours a day and are on call at the touch of a bell; the apartment is closed during the epidemic, and the staff takes the trolley and hands the items sent by the family to the elderly...
In the diaries and letters handwritten by the elderly, the work of the "children" is meticulously noted, "If you take medicine for 30 (elderly), register, pay, and then go to the doctor to prescribe and pay the fees one by one, and then take the medicine. One person takes 5 kinds of medicine on average, which is 150 kinds. After you get the medicines, you have to verify them one by one. You can imagine how arduous this is."
It is reported that SDIC’s health and elderly care industry layout includes Beijing SDIC Healthy Elderly Apartments independently developed and operated by a wholly-owned subsidiary, Guangzhou SDIC Health Jiaqi Elderly Apartments, a Sino-Japanese joint venture, and also includes The Rainbow Bay Welfare Home for the Elderly in Shanghai's Hongkou District, invested by the government and operated and managed by a subsidiary of SDIC Health Holdings.
Shanghai Fifth Middle School cooperated with the Rainbow Bay Welfare Home for the Elderly in Hongkou District, Shanghai to "replace volunteer services for accommodation" and sent the first three volunteers to the Rainbow Bay Youth Volunteer Accommodation Program.
Xu Fen and Luo Qing are the first batch of volunteers.
Rainbow Bay Senior Citizens Welfare Institute took full consideration of work, academic background expertise and physical conditions, and signed a voluntary service agreement with them.
In January this year, after volunteers settled in the orphanage, the total monthly volunteer service time for the elderly is not less than 20 hours.
Including family companionship, nursing staff training seminars, and weekend colleges for the elderly.
At present, targeted content has been formulated for the senior citizens' courses of the National Open University.
"Children" go to coax old kids
"Hospitals focus on treatment, while elderly care focuses on stability." Many elderly people living in nursing homes have chronic diseases such as high blood pressure and diabetes.
Maintaining health and stability is the focus of old-age care.
In Shen Xiaojiao's view, the most different from working in a hospital is that most of his work involves communicating with the elderly and their family members.
"For example, if you change a commonly used medicine, or how the elderly are today, we will communicate in the WeChat group where the family members are. In hospitals, doctors often change them directly according to the needs of their illness."
Wu Yanan, Recreation Commissioner of Beijing SDIC Health Elderly Apartment, takes grandparents and grandparents full-time in activities.
From playing movies to making handicrafts, from outings to making mooncakes together, old people are no easier to coax than children. There is no freshness in activities for a while, so I have to think of something new quickly.
At about 3 pm one day, a grandpa found Wu Yanan angrily: "Why did the 3:30 movie, I arrived 10 minutes earlier, but it has already started?" But in fact, the day’s activities started at 2:30, but the grandpa said , "My schedule is different from others'."
"Grandpa, please check again after you return to the room. If it is 3:30, I will come to your room to inform you of the time every time, don't you think it?" Wu Yanan smiled and coaxed Grandpa, and had to find a way to follow Come.
There is also a grandfather suffering from moderate Alzheimer's disease, who is inherently introverted, and basically only nodded, shook his head and waved his hands in response to everyone's words.
Wu Yanan went to him to chat and play chess every day. Grandpa remembered her stinky chess and the name Xiao Wu.
Now, will take the initiative to sing to Wu Yanan.
Wu Yanan is the busiest person on the phone, from early morning to night.
The afternoon manual class is over, grandma hasn't finished it yet.
I finished it at 9pm, so I had to make a phone call: "Yanan, I'm done, remember to come and take a look at work tomorrow morning."
"I shouldn't leave this business." When Wu Yanan first joined the business, the retreat that had arisen because of his salary had already dissipated as his income rose and his liking for work content disappeared.
Three issues that the elderly and their families are most concerned about
Before admission, many elderly people wanted to stay at home for various reasons.
There is often only one worry behind it: If you don’t enter a nursing home, you will prove that you can take care of yourself; when you enter a nursing home, you may be here for the rest of your life.
The customer manager Li Yuanyuan met a 94-year-old couple.
The grandmother fell down before moving in and was already in a state of full care. The grandpa took care of herself at an advanced age.
The children are all abroad and cannot come back for a while.
After a long period of ideological struggle, my grandparents finally came to the apartment to have a try, but they wanted to go home in the early morning of the first day: this place is different from home.
It takes a few days to slowly accept the new living environment.
Li Yuanyuan received 24 elderly people into the apartment.
A considerable part of them are semi-self-care and higher level of care, and it is more difficult for these people to take care of them at home.
She said that the three issues that the elderly and their families are most concerned about are costs, living conditions and medical care.
According to the relevant regulations of the Ministry of Civil Affairs, the apartment was closed for a long period of time in the first half of this year.
Old people want their children, and children worry about the elderly.
The old man will ask the staff over and over again: When will I go out?
Some old people press the service bell more than a dozen times at night, just to vent their emotions.
The most frequent mood swings for the elderly are when the lives of the neighbors change-their children come to visit; the wife moves in.
At this time, some elderly people will casually mention to Tan Meng: "Look, they are the old couple who stayed in, and they have a look after each other."
Only time and company can smooth these fluctuations.
Push the elderly up to the top floor to bask in the sun, do handicrafts, watch movies, talk about their parents, and talk about the international situation.
Nursing nurse Tan Meng, who graduated in elderly service major, has a diary in her heart. She is familiar with the situation of the elderly on the floor: there are three or four elderly people who are obsessed with cleanliness. Remember to keep the door closed when you go out; there is an old man who likes to study from 9 to 11, so don't bother to go in at this time.
Another grandma will tell her to wear more before she is on the night shift. Seeing you wear so little, go to my cabinet to get clothes when it is cold.
Shen Xiaojiao shed tears when he saw more life and death, but while working in a nursing home.
It was a 90-year-old grandmother who had been intubated in bed.
The old man had serious reflux esophagitis. After learning about the risk of this disease, his family decided to go to the hospital for active treatment.
When she helped her grandmother get her medical insurance card, she saw the photo on the medical insurance card, "a very energetic and delicate old lady", and the appearance of her muscles contracting on the bed, so different, Shen Xiaojiao couldn't believe that the two were the same. The same person, at that moment, she shed tears.
She said that she hopes to do her best to let more elderly people enjoy a happy old age.