Yesterday, Ye Peiying, the original singer of "I Love You, China", professor of the Vocal Department of the Central Conservatory of Music and soprano singer, left us forever at the age of 87.
Professor Ip Pei Ying was born in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, with his ancestral home in Huiyang, Guangdong Province. At the beginning of the founding of New China, she resolutely bid farewell to her parents and returned to China to study. Professor Ye once said affectionately, "My parents told me that our country is called China and our hometown is called Tangshan. Abroad, I deeply feel that weak countries are being bullied. ”
In 1955, Ye Peiying was admitted to the Vocal Music Department of the Central Conservatory of Music, where she studied under Luo Xinzu and Tang Xuegeng. In 1961, Ye Peiying graduated and stayed in school. In order to overcome the difficulty of biting and spitting out words, she studied opera and folk songs, and explored a set of singing methods that combined Chinese and Western singing methods that suited her own characteristics, making important contributions to the exploration of the nationalization of bel canto singing.
In 1963, Ye Peiying led the singing of "Ode to the Motherland" when performing for Mao Zedong, Liu Shaoqi and other state leaders in Zhongnanhai. In 1965, after singing "Yellow River Grievances" at the "Commemoration of the 20th Anniversary of the Victory in the War of Resistance Against Japan", she was praised by Premier Zhou.
In 1979, Ye Peiying received a letter invitation from Zheng Qiufeng, the composer of "I Love You, China", to sing the song "I Love You, China" for the movie "Overseas Naked Son", and after the film was released, Professor Ye's affectionate singing voice immediately spread throughout the north and south of the river.
I learned about Ye Lao's death from a friend who was close to Professor Ye.
Professor Ye's husband, Mr. Wu Shikai, who is also a professor at the Central Conservatory of Music, has been hospitalized for many years, and the couple's only daughter is in the United States, and Professor Ye has been living alone at home.
The day before yesterday, her daughter called the friend and said she couldn't reach her mother and asked for help.
The friend then tried to dial Professor Ye's mobile phone, but no one answered, and then contacted the neighborhood committee where she lived, the school security office, and the property, and various departments came to Professor Ye's house, knocking on the door and never responding.
In desperation, the school security office and the neighborhood committee requested the local police station, and then contacted the lock company, and after breaking the door, they found professor Ye falling down in the toilet and had fainted for a long time.
120 ambulances arrived and sent Professor Ye to the hospital for rescue, but eventually died due to massive intracranial hemorrhage.
Bad news came, sorrow came from it, and on this day, Professor Ye's singing voice echoed in my mind from time to time.
From this, I also thought that on a late night in August last year, Mr. Jin Renqing, the former minister of finance who was nearly eighty years old, lived alone at home, and the balcony books in his home caught fire, and the area of the fire was only 2 square meters, but Mr. Jin was accidentally injured before the incident and was unable to help himself, and he had fainted in the living room when he was found, speculating that the cause of death may be related to smoke.
Both deceased were elderly people living alone at home, and the main reason for their deaths was mobility problems. This cannot but make us re-examine a very serious reality in China's aging society: the health and safety protection of home care.
The most pressing real-world problem in aging China: empty nests
According to the data of the seventh census, in 2020, the proportion of the mainland population aged 65 and above will reach 13.5%. The United Nations medium variable predicts that in 2025, China will enter a deeply aging society and in 2040 it will enter a super-aging society.
Although China has long entered an aging society, people still lack a more intuitive and perceptual understanding of the degree of population aging in China in the future.
Taking the latest natural growth rate of Chinese as the forecast trend, by 2025, the proportion of China's elderly population will exceed 14%, and by 2040, the proportion of China's elderly population will exceed 20%, officially entering the ultra-aging society, which also means that there is one elderly person over 65 years old in every five Chinese.
The living environment is an important factor affecting the safety of the elderly, and the World Health Organization issued a report that more than 300,000 people die of falls every year, of which the elderly over 60 account for half.
The survey shows that the elderly have requirements for the safety facilities that should be configured in the indoor living space environment, especially for the indoor anti-slip ground (72.6%), emergency call system (68.4%), indoor handrail (41.8%), the demand for three types of barrier-free facilities is stronger, and the physical function of the elderly aged 80 and above is weaker, and the corresponding demand for non-slip ground, call system and handrail is significantly higher than that of the young elderly.
The elderly showed greater demand for community aging service projects, with emergency calls (68.3%), lost positioning (60.4%), and escort travel (46.4%) accounting for the highest proportion.
Compared with the younger group, the elderly have a higher frequency of medical treatment, especially the elderly with chronic diseases need convenient and perfect medical and health services. Survey data show that the elderly have a strong demand for community medical service projects, and health monitoring (59.5%) is the community medical service project most desired by the elderly of all ages, followed by medical delivery (47.7%) and family doctors (45.8%).
Many ministries and commissions have issued documents on many occasions to promote the transformation of home aging
In fact, government decision-making departments have also realized the safety of the home care process.
In 2020, the nine ministries and commissions jointly promulgated the "Guiding Opinions on Accelerating the Implementation of the Home Aging Transformation of the Elderly", and the implementation of the home aging transformation of the elderly is an important starting point for consolidating the basic position of family pensions, promoting the consumption of old-age services, and promoting the quality and expansion of home-based old-age services, which is of great significance to the construction of a home-based community institution coordination and medical and health care-
In the same year, the six ministries and commissions jointly promulgated the "Opinions on Promoting the Development of Home Community Elderly Care Services in The Development of Property Service Enterprises", promoted and supported property service enterprises to actively explore the "property service + old-age service" model, effectively increase the effective supply of home-based community old-age services, better meet the increasingly diversified and multi-level old-age service needs of the elderly, and strive to solve the problems of life care and long-term care for the elderly who are elderly, empty nesters, living alone, and disabled, and promote family happiness, neighborhood harmony, and community harmony.
Building a silver-haired friendly society is an important part of urban construction
In modern society, the traditional family structure is disintegrating, and the lack of children or even only children and singleness have become the mainstream of family structure, which have caused the proportion of elderly people living alone and empty nests to rise rapidly.
With the acceleration of the development trend of population aging, especially the development trend of deep aging, how to avoid such tragedies with more effective means is an urgent and urgent topic to be solved.
As an important part of urban construction, in the next decade, the old-age service system is an important topic that cannot be avoided in the structure of China's social industry. We must lay out early in order to better build a silver-haired friendly society, and at the same time, grasp the economic grasp in the process of population aging, which is also an indispensable part of the process of the city moving towards a high-quality civilized society.
During the epidemic period, Beijing has conducted a thorough survey of the elderly living alone through the community, and implemented the relevant systems and responsibilities for inspection and visits. The data I learned is that there are about 600,000 people over the age of 80 in Beijing, and the proportion of empty nesters over the age of 60 is increasing year by year, and at least half of the elderly are not living with their children.
The living safety of these elderly people living alone urgently needs to build an efficient and feasible emergency rescue network.
In response to this problem, Japan, a neighboring country that is also an aging society, has made many useful attempts, including hardware supporting facilities such as home monitoring and alarms.
In Luo Fat's New Year's Eve speech, he mentioned the case of smart water meters saving the lives of the elderly.
In a community with more empty nest elderly people, if the property company sends people to the door every day to "check the post" or install camera monitoring, in fact, from the perspective of the elderly, they will feel that their personal privacy has been violated, then, a smart property company uses the function of the smart water meter: look at the water word.
The property company has set up an alarm function for the smart water meter, and if the water meter in the empty nest elderly does not move within a certain period of time, it will receive a prompt.
The elderly at home all year round will use water every day, if the water meter does not move, it means that there may be some situation, and the property company will come to check it.
Appeal: Promote the establishment of an accident prevention system for empty nesters as soon as possible
Through the unfortunate death of Professor Ye, I would like to appeal again that in the construction of China's pension system, in addition to insurance, institutional pension, pension volunteers and other links, we need to pay special attention to the details of the lives of the elderly, including the care of the elderly living alone, the support of the elderly in the families who have lost their independence, the care of the elderly with disability and dementia, etc., and we need to promote the cooperative service system between the government and enterprises as soon as possible, especially in the prevention of sudden death and the prevention of falls and accidents, it is urgent to take corresponding policy promotion measures.
In terms of sudden death prevention, the proportion of single-family and couple empty nesters in developed countries is 70%-80% higher. China can learn from the experience of foreign responses and introduce Internet sensor detection systems, family support systems, and community life instructors for empty nesters registered in the community.
In terms of accident prevention of falls, accidental falls in life have become the most important factors in the injury death, disability and disability of the elderly population.
Some cities in China with relatively complete facilities can take the lead in promoting the elderly fall monitoring and alarm system in the aging community when conditions permit, with the help of network technology, video image information interaction technology and sensing technology, the elderly in the monitoring area are identified, and when abnormal situations are found, they can be warned in the fastest way, effectively assisting management personnel to deal with it, and minimizing false positives and false alarms; at the same time, they can also view on-site video to facilitate post-event management inquiries.