In the past, the traditional old-age care model in rural areas was "raising children and preventing old age", which was a deep-rooted, widely spread and deeply rooted way of old-age care.
Since the 80s of the last century, the mainland has entered into a comprehensive and in-depth reform, which has enabled the mainland's economy to develop very rapidly, and earth-shaking changes have taken place in the rural areas.
A large number of peasants in the rural areas, in response to the needs of urban economic development, have left the farmland they have contracted, left the rural areas, left their homeland, and went to work and live in the cities.
These farmers not only left the contracted land, but also left their parents who gave birth to him and raised him, leaving his parents as empty nesters and left-behind old people, leaving their hometown alone, planting and cultivating the land and living a difficult life.
These old people, because of their age, are getting old day by day, and their children cannot stay by their side for a long time, so they all rely on the money from their children's work in the city to bring back a part of it to provide the needs of the elderly's daily life, eat the food they produce, and live.
This kind of pension is called "resident pension", which not only relies on the funds provided by the children for the elderly, but also relies on their own self-reliance to live.
With the rapid development of the economy, the society has undergone fundamental changes, and the economic pressure on rural people to work in the city has increased.
If they gradually want to integrate into the urban society, they need to buy a house and a car, and the money they have to work in their hands is not enough, in order to buy a house and a car in the city to have a living space and live a better life in the city, they must borrow a house loan and a car loan in accordance with national policies.
In this way, every month they have to take out half of the money from their salary to pay for the mortgage and car loan, and at this time, the living expenses of themselves and their families are gradually increasing, the cost of raising children, and the cost of pension insurance and medical insurance of their families are overwhelming.
In this way, these farmers who go to the city to work in the countryside have a high cost of living in the city, and they are all "mud bodhisattvas crossing the river and it is difficult to protect themselves", how can they have the ability and energy to take care of the life and pension of their parents in the rural hometown, so the pension model of "home care" for the elderly in rural areas cannot be sustained.
At this time, there is a new type of pension model in rural areas, which is taking shape, and the form of rural "nursing home" pension has emerged.
There are two phenomena in this pension model, one is that the state supports the lonely and widowed elderly in rural areas, who are supported by the state and can have the conditions to enter nursing homes for the elderly.
The other is the elderly with good economic conditions in rural families, who have the economic strength to enter the nursing home for the elderly, and the children do not have enough time to accompany the elderly, this pension model is based on a certain economic foundation, and the elderly who enter the nursing home have enough funds for the elderly to provide for the elderly, so the elderly who lack the ordinary pension funds are out of reach and cannot enter the nursing home for the elderly.
And now at this time, there is no good way to care for the elderly except for raising children to prevent old age, caring for the elderly at home, and going to nursing homes for the elderly.
The vast majority of the rural elderly, no matter how weak their bodies are, whether they are seventy or eighty years old, still have to work in the fields, dig in the soil, and live a difficult life in combination with the urban and rural elderly who can receive a pension of more than 100 yuan per month.
These elderly people, due to the decline of their various abilities, need someone to take care of their daily life, their children are not around for a long time, the nursing home has no economic conditions, and the home care funds are not enough, where will their pension go?
As a last resort, these elderly people living together in the countryside can only take a group to keep warm, starting from the original old man and a woman, starting with a partner, and gradually starting to carry out, with similar interests and hobbies, and no various contradictions in each other's life, the old people voluntarily combine to live together.
Now the rural people have a lot of rooms, very wide factories, these old people who get along well together, they voluntarily combine together, live in the homes of the elderly with many idle houses, bring their own living materials, sometimes cook together, sometimes cook on a separate stove, and the living expenses are all AA system.
They live together, both men and women, in daily life, are to help each other, take care of each other, especially when the elderly are sick, other elderly people will come to take care of them, if the elderly can not take care of themselves, under the advocacy of the village cadres, the old people will lend a helping hand and take care of the elderly to complete the last journey.
These old people from the "group pension", to the "crowd pension", do not rely on their children to provide for the elderly, do not rely on nursing homes to provide for the elderly, can not be their own home care, only to adopt this kind of collective pension, later people called "collective pension", or "community collective pension" new model.
This new type of pension model, the state is strongly supported, the society is recognized, is to fully play the strength of the elderly themselves, do not need the state and society, including the family of the elderly, can be on the basis of the original elderly, do not need to increase any economic costs and human resources, can achieve this "community collective pension".
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