Six years ago, she went to Wuxi to work hard, and half a year later, her daughter-in-law also followed. Nowadays, both of them have found a good job in Wuxi, and the grandson also went to school in the affiliated primary school of Wuxi Normal College, usually the mother of the family is the "old drifter" with the child to take care of the housework, and when there is something going on in the winter and summer vacation and the mother's family, the wife's stand-in immediately "drifts" to Wuxi to become an "old drifter". I have two years to retire and am a candidate for the "old drifter". Look at our side there are a lot of such "old drifters", they are a lot of age to operate the south wall to the north, obviously retired, and like migratory birds "drifting" in unfamiliar cities for several jobs, they support their children's careers, help their children share the pressure of childcare, get up early and do housework in the dark. They had to leave their homeland in their twilight years and try to integrate into the new circle of life.
In real life, although the "old drifters" avoid separating from their children and avoiding the dilemma of becoming empty nesters, a "drift" word reflects their bitter and difficult state of life in other places. Leaving their hometown and leaving the familiar circle of life in their hometown, the "old drifters" are often intertwined with diverse and contradictory emotions. I remember such a scene in the movie "Land Boat", the son of an old fisherman went to Beijing to work hard, bought a new house in Beijing a few years later, he returned to the island to persuade his father to go to Beijing to live with him, between the flowers in the big city and the desolate depression of the island, the old man fell into a tangle. In the film, a line is called "the old man is like an old wood, leaving home to build water and soil", which means that the old man is like an old tree, and when he leaves his hometown, he will lose all water and soil. Of course, this is an exaggerated metaphor, but through this sentence, we can also see that the "old drifters" who "drift" to another city face problems such as no acquaintances, different languages, cultural differences, unsatisfactory water and soil, and unaccustomed living, and even many "old drifters" are difficult to enjoy the same welfare benefits as the local elderly.
The long-term existence of China's family generation-skipping parenting model and pension model is destined to be a long-term phenomenon of the urbanization process. To improve the situation of the "old drifters", we should start from many aspects to reduce their sense of drifting. For example, cities should release more goodwill, and bring foreign "old drifters" into the urban pension service system equally, so that they can enjoy more rights and interests in medical treatment and inclusive public services in other places, and enhance their identity in the city where they live; actively promote the aging transformation in various fields, actively build age-friendly cities, and hold more activities such as health care, calligraphy and painting entertainment at the grass-roots level of the community, so that the "old drifters" can quickly find new partners and integrate into new lives in other places.
"The old man and the old man". The "old drifters" don't seem to create direct value for the city, but it is precisely because of their presence that young people can free their hands to work with peace of mind. From this point of view, the "old drifter" contributes a unique and indispensable value. The degree of aging in our province is in the forefront of the country, and there are also a large number of young people who come to Suzhou to start a business and work, for all parts of Jiangsu, do a good job in the old-age work, let the "old drifters" rely on the old, and change their hometowns to their hometowns, which is not only a manifestation of caring for and caring for the elderly, but also a powerful measure to attract foreign populations and increase the competitiveness of the city. (Morning of March 18)