Veteran Ding Kai: Using the true color of the military to hold up the most beautiful "sunset red"

Source: People's Daily - Anhui Channel Original draft

In the eyes of colleagues, he is the leader of the community wisdom pension service project; in the eyes of the elderly, he is a caring and considerate relative; in the eyes of his family, he is a father and husband who often breaks the appointment for work.

His name is Ding Kai, the head of the Ma'anshan Zhongai Wisdom Pension Service Center, and he is also a veteran.

At the end of 1997, after retiring from the Anqing detachment of the armed police, Ding Kai returned to his hometown of Ma'anshan, and although he took off his military uniform, what he retained was the true color of a soldier who was "particularly able to endure hardships and fight.".

After retiring from the military, Ding Kai successively served as a school policeman, an enterprise manager, and also opened a private enterprise. No matter what post he was in, he relied on the good style he had cultivated in the army and did his work well.

Love the old complex To devote yourself to the cause of old-age care

In the second half of 2013, due to his grandmother's illness, there was no one to take care of the family for a while, and Ding Kai decided to ask someone to come to the house to help take care of it. But after many contacts, the results were not satisfactory, and I could not find a suitable person to take care of Grandma.

Around Ding Kai, there are many widows and widows, empty nesters and elderly people in need of help and special care. "People are old, there is no one to accompany them, life is inconvenient, if someone can always care about them, it would be good." 」 Ding Kai said that with the increasingly serious aging, the demand for old-age care is becoming more and more common, so that more elderly people have dependence, old age, old age, and fun, and it is urgent to explore "smart old-age care".

Just do it. At the end of 2013, accompanied by his family, Ding Kai spent more than a year visiting and studying in Zhejiang, Shanghai, Jiangsu and other places to gain an in-depth understanding of the cause of "old-age services". Subsequently, Ding Kai contacted volunteers to set up a pension service team, and took Bowang District as a starting point to explore the physical condition and living conditions of the elderly widows and widows and the elderly living alone in the jurisdiction of Bowang District.

In 2015, under the leadership of Ding Kai, the elderly care service team established a non-profit social organization in Bowang District - Bowang District Zhongai Urban and Rural Elderly Assistance Service Center to carry out community services for the elderly.

He believes that such a demand has opened a door for himself to realize his ideal of serving the elderly and develop his personal career.

Love the old and sincerely open up a new situation for the elderly

On the eve of the official operation of the Zhongai Elderly Service Center, Ding Kai took the lead in introducing the intelligent old-age information call system in Ma'anshan City, which was effectively grafted with the community day care center for the elderly and the old-age institutions, and opened the online and offline "Didi" interactive mode, whether it was going out during the day or at home, as long as there was demand, the Zhongai old-age service team led by Ding Kai could immediately provide door-to-door services for the elderly.

Ding Kai told reporters that the task of pension institutions is not only to take care of the elderly, but also to maintain their physical and mental health, and to give effective cooperation and follow-up in disease treatment and rehabilitation nursing.

In order to let these empty nests and widows and the elderly get timely care, since 2016, Ding Kai has led the establishment of the China Love volunteer service team to help the elderly, actively organizing volunteers to carry out various forms of volunteer activities, providing volunteer services such as life care and psychological comfort for orphans and widows, living alone, elderly people with advanced age and difficulties, and disabled people in the jurisdiction, and solving their living inconveniences.

Especially in terms of participating in the society and serving the society, the China-Ireland Volunteer Service Team interprets the volunteer spirit of "dedication, fraternity, mutual assistance and progress" with actions, and as of now, the volunteer team has reached 550 people.

Love the old and persevere, and strengthen the cause of old-age care

In recent years, Ding Kai led his China Love Elderly Assistance Service Team to actively participate in the organization of various public welfare activities, has carried out 234 activities of various types of elderly assistance, and has installed "electronic nannies" for nearly 13,000 empty-nest elderly people in Ma'anshan City, who can enjoy life services such as meal assistance, daily call care, and medical bathing with one click, and become a good helper for the elderly at home.

In order to cope with the needs of some elderly people for highly technical services such as home appliance maintenance and sewer dredging, the service team of China Ireland for the Elderly also invited more than 320 service merchants to enter the smart old-age service platform, the elderly can call at any time, and the service team will provide timely door-to-door service.

Up to now, the China-Ireland Elderly Assistance Service Team has provided more than 400,000 times of psychological comfort, life care, holiday greetings and other services for 9,956 households in Ma'anshan City, which has been unanimously praised by the elderly and their families.

Over the years, with the reputation of high-quality service for the elderly, Ding Kai and his pension service team have successively won the honors of "Advanced Collective for Helping the Disabled and Helping the Disabled in Bowang District", "Excellent Volunteer Service Organization in Ma'anshan City", "Excellent Volunteer Service Collective in Ma'anshan City", etc.; his individual has also been awarded the titles of "Good Man of Ma'anshan" and "National Model Figure of Respecting the Elderly and Loving the Elderly and Helping the Elderly" in 2020.

"Only by doing a part of our hearts for the elderly and a responsibility for the society can we be worthy of the glorious title of a retired soldier." Ding Kai said that in his career planning, it is to send warmth and love into the hearts of the elderly, and use the true colors of soldiers to support the most beautiful "sunset red". (Wang Ruihua)