Beiqing quick review |" The curtain engagement "is a vivid example of neighborhood watchmanship."

Once the empty nest elderly become ill, if no one finds out and takes timely treatment measures, the consequences are unimaginable. In addition to community care, frequent greetings from children, and door-to-door visits, neighborhood watch is a way out. In Bai paper fang street in Beijing's Xicheng District, neighbors confirmed the safety of the empty nest elderly through the "secret code" of "curtain agreement". The elderly who are helped use the curtains as a "secret code" every day to report to the helpers that they are safe. Once the curtains are not opened, the helper will rush to the scene as soon as possible to rescue, and contact the street, the community and the family of the helped person at the same time. (Beijing Youth Daily, December 1)

Empty nest old people to open the curtains, to convey their own safety information, if the curtains are opened regularly every day, it means that the empty nest old people are safe, if the curtains are not opened, it means that there may be an accident, the helper will rush to the old man's home in time to give help. This practice is a bit almost like the traditional version of "one-click call", in addition to low cost, easy to operate, but also reflects the public warmth and social self-sufficiency of neighborhood mutual assistance.

At present, China's population aged 60 and above has reached 264 million. The fourth sample survey of the living conditions of the elderly in urban and rural Areas in China shows that the number of empty nesters has exceeded 100 million. More than 90% of the elderly in China tend to stay at home for the elderly, and there are many empty nesters, many elderly people in difficulty, and a high dependency ratio for the elderly in the country. Empty nesters living alone for a long time, coupled with old age and poor physique, once there is a sudden situation, and do not get help in time, it may cause irreparable consequences. For example, a septuagenarian man in a certain place was found dead at home for several days, and his body emitted a smell. There was also a septuagenarian who lived alone in the bath and fell, and was found dead for many days, with only a pet dog by his side.

There are many such examples, and such a "pain of empty nests" has touched everyone's nerves and has become a social problem that needs to be solved urgently. In some places, cameras, pagers, smart monitoring devices... These ageing equipment plays a very unique role in continuous use. However, the restrictions of the conditions have not achieved comprehensive coverage, and at the same time, the comprehensive benefits of one-way measures are relatively limited, and it is necessary to continuously enrich and improve the social intervention mechanism. At present, the vast majority of the elderly choose the home care model, and the socialized security system is difficult to fully cover, fully mobilize the participation of all parties in society, use traditional means to transmit information and start the corresponding intervention mechanism, which has a very positive practical significance.

In the context of insufficient public power and social resources, the people will take care of each other, care for each other, and help each other, and a strong endogenous force will burst out. It turns out that the code word for "curtain convention" has become a life-saving lifesaver. The hints of the curtains again and again bring the guarantee of life. The warmth and responsibility of watching out for each other has also made this society more warm. As long as there is goodness in the heart, as long as the good heart does not die, the empty nest can become docile in the face of powerful folk self-sufficiency.

Expanding the model of "curtain convention" is not only the current choice to solve the "empty nest crisis", but also an inevitable move to build a humane society. The biggest crisis exposed by the "empty nest crisis" is not the empty nest itself, but precisely the human indifference caused by social change. A protective network has also become a fence to destroy interpersonal trust and mutual dependence, and the indifference and isolation of "the opposite side does not know each other" has caused the fragmentation of family and social relations, and the empty nest elderly have lost both family love and social care. As the saying goes, distant relatives are not as good as neighbors, if everyone has the enthusiasm of the acquaintance society and the enthusiasm of mutual defense, the "curtain agreement" will become the norm of folk mutual assistance.

The good news is that the "curtain agreement" has shown a good momentum from local pilot to general promotion. At first, this was just a tacit understanding formed between neighbors, and finally became a normal means of social mutual assistance, with the increasing number of participants, under the superposition of adverse environments such as epidemic prevention and control, this attempt to solve the empty nest problem with group heating and private mutual assistance provided an effective path to solve the pain of empty nests.

Text/Don Quixote

Image source/Visual China

Source: Beijing Toutiao Client