Source: People's Daily - Anhui Channel
In recent years, Hengshan Town, Huoshan County, Anhui Province, with the community as the main focus, has carried out a series of civilization-building activities around the needs of the elderly living environment, daily travel, health therapy, social participation, spiritual and cultural life, etc., regularly conducted thorough investigations of the elderly groups in the jurisdiction, cultivated social organizations suitable for the participation of the elderly such as tai chi, square dance, and opera, formed a number of volunteer service teams to enrich the lives of the elderly, and at the same time set up a legal aid service team to strengthen the popularization of legal publicity on marriage and family contradictions and disputes involving the elderly and tort disputes To meet the needs of the elderly in all aspects.
"They are so busy at work, they often come to see me, every time they clean up the house, they chat with me, which makes me feel very warm!" Lu Kuiying, who lives in the town's WeiyangHu community, has children working outside the home and is an elderly person living alone. The 88-year-old has not healed due to an accidental fall many years ago, resulting in a fracture of her ribs and leg bones, and now she has no mobility problems. In order to take care of the lives of the elderly, the community often visits the door to comfort them, help the elderly clean up, and carry out volunteer service activities.
In addition to giving full play to the role of the main front of villages and communities, Hengshan Town also calls on enterprises, schools and other multi-party linkages to actively build a working platform for the elderly in the whole town, focus on improving the service level of the elderly, and solidly promote the comprehensive service work for the elderly. In order to make the elderly live more comfortably, the living equipment and facilities of the town respect for the elderly home have been comprehensively upgraded and transformed, and the fire passage has been newly opened, the rain-proof corridor has been installed, the toilet has been reconstructed, the electronic mobile gate has been installed, the doorman room has been equipped, and the activity venue for the residents has been hardened. Combined with the daily room-by-room inspection work, the management personnel achieve "two looks" (to see the physical condition of the residents, to see the health status of the room), "two listens" (listen to the self-statements of the residents, listen to the reflection of the situation of the residents), timely understand the physical conditions and ideological dynamics of the residents, adhere to the system of daily hygiene cleaning, irregular cleaning of bedding, and weekly arrangements for dietary standards, and establish personal health files one by one to provide a basis for the elderly in the future in terms of body, dietary structure adjustment, health management and other aspects. At present, the town home for the elderly provides centralized support for 34 people and 144 people scatteredly.
At the same time, the party committee and government of Hengshan Town also actively support the development of the town school for the elderly and create a "spiritual paradise" for the elderly. The school has always adhered to the purpose of "increasing knowledge, enriching life, cultivating sentiments, improving quality, improving health, and serving the society", with 11 professional courses such as Chinese painting, calligraphy, smart phones, hand drumming, opera, tai chi, etc., and has hired 11 teachers to standardize classes from Monday to Friday and carry out routine teaching.
Nowadays, in Hengshan Town, more and more elderly people feel the "most beautiful sunset red". Zhu Qizhou, deputy secretary of the party committee and mayor of Hengshan Town, said that in the future, the town will continue to stimulate the enthusiasm of villages, enterprises, schools and other entities, and better lay a solid foundation for creating an age-friendly society in the process of respecting the elderly, respecting the elderly, loving the elderly and helping the elderly. (Bao Jie)
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