北方农村老年人 “轮养” 方式研究—基于河北调查 数据

Rural China ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 311-341 ◽  

Abstract In multi-child families, lunyang (different children taking turns to provide support) for aged parents or single parents has been a form of family old-age support since ancient times. Based on the survey I carried out in 2008 in three villages respectively located in Zhao county (south central Hebei), Fengrun district of Tangshan county (East Hebei), and Chicheng county (Northwest Hebei), this article intends to achieve a comprehensive understanding of lunyang, a form of old-age support in North China villages, through statistical analysis. According to this research, 13.30% of the elderly people older than 60 in the surveyed villages were under care rotation. Regionally, Fengrun district had the highest level of lunyang, where over 20% of the surveyed elderly people lived by lunyang. In comparison, the elderly people under lunyang numbered 13.45% in Zhao county and only 3.55% in Chicheng county. In terms of age group, more than 30% of the surveyed elderly people older than 80 in Zhao county and Fengrun district were under lunyang. From the perspective of lunyang’s form, the portion of the singles under lunyang amounted to more than 70%. In other words, widowed elderly constituted the main part of lunyang. Couples under lunyang numbered less than 30%. The mainstream practice was for the different children to provide both meals and accommodation in turn, accounting for 70% of the cases of lunyang. However, the practice of meal rotation only increased among elderly people older than 80, accounting for over 30%. The practice of accommodation rotation only accounted for slightly more than 10%, and concentrated on people younger than 70. In most cases, the duration of the cycle for lunyang ranged from 1 month to 1 year, and the cycle of 1 month and 1 year accounted for more than 60%. In terms of control over resources for survival, only 10% of elderly people under lunyang owned their residence, and the overwhelming majority of them relied on their children to provide living expenses, showing the weak control of elderly people under rotation over survival resources and their rigid dependency on their children for old-age support. (This article is in Chinese.) 摘要 有多子的年老父母或单亲以 “轮养” 方式被赡养是一项古已有之的家庭养老做法。本文以 2008 年笔者在冀中南赵县、冀东唐山市丰润区和冀西北赤城县三个村庄所作问卷调查为基础,对 “轮养” 行为进行统计分析,试图比较全面地认识北方农村这一养老模式。根据本项研究,调查村庄 60 岁以上受访老年人被 “轮养”比例为 13.30%。 其中,丰润区 “轮养” 水平最高,超过 20% 的受访老年人以 “轮养” 方式生活,赵县为 13.45%,赤城县则只有 3.55%。分年龄组看,赵县和丰润区 80 岁以上受访老年人被 “轮养” 者超过 30%。从轮养形式看,丧偶单亲被 “轮养” 占 70% 多,夫妇被 “轮养” 不足 30%。轮吃轮住方式约占 70%;80 岁以上老年人轮吃不轮住增加,超过 30%;轮住不轮吃只占 10% 多一点,集中于 70 岁以下低龄老年组。“轮养” 周期多为 1 个月至一年之间,其中 1 个月和 1 年这两种 “轮养” 形式超过 60%。从生存资源的掌握上看,“轮养” 老年人有自己产权住房的比例只占 10%,绝大多数 “轮养” 老年人由子女提供生活费用。 被 “轮养” 老年人资源支配能力很弱,是亲代对子代养老具有刚性依赖的表现。

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 10
Author(s):  
Naomi Nisari Rosdewi ◽  
Theresia Puspitawati ◽  
Herta Meisatama

Increased Life Expectancy has an impact on increasing the number of elderly people. Older people are part of a society that cannot be solved in our lives. Widodomartani Village, Ngemplak Subdistrict, Sleman DIY is one of the villages that has a high number of elderly people. Some of them still remain productive in their old age. This needs to be maintained and improved, considering that the elderly are the age group that is susceptible to disease. Promotive and preventive efforts are very important to do to improve the health of the elderly and to increase family expectations.Keywords: mucoskeletal, elderly, examination


1983 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 221-231 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mary A. Luszcz

Attitudes toward the elderly were considered in a life-span context relative to adolescents and the middle-aged. These groups were chosen based on theorized commonalities linking adolescents and the elderly in contrast to the middle-aged. Undergraduate students used a semantic differential to rate the extent to which adjectives corresponded to their conceptions of ideal, real, and typical adolescents, middle-aged, and elderly people. Four subscales of Autonomy, Instrumentality, Acceptability, and Integration were assessed. When students considered their ideal conceptions of each age group, no age-related differences were evidenced on any dimensions. Further, across age, typical individuals were considered to be less acceptable and less well-integrated than people known by students. However, autonomy and instrumentality varied with age as well as the type of individuals being rated. Typical old people as well as old people known to students were viewed to be less instrumental than adolescents. These elderly people were also viewed as less instrumental than real but not typical middle-aged people. Adolescents and the elderly alike were seen as less autonomous than real or typical middle-aged people. Results were discussed in terms of Chellam's notion of symmetry that suggests that balance, likeness, and oppositeness each characterize relations among adolescents, the middle-aged, and the elderly.


2014 ◽  
Vol 50 (2) ◽  
pp. 269-284 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fabiana Rossi Varallo ◽  
Fernanda Mariana de Oliveira ◽  
Patrícia de Carvalho Mastroianni

Certain medicines are considered potentially inappropriate (PIM) for elderly people as they increase the risk of adverse drug events (ADE) and because safer alternative therapies are available on the market. In this context, in order to identify the instruments that assess the quality of medical prescriptions for elderly and to determine which drugs are considered PIM, a bibliographic survey was conducted in PUBMED, LILACS and PAHO databases, in February and March/2010. The search strategy included the use of health descriptors and a manual search in the references cited by selected papers. During the period of data collection, 15 instruments were identified. In 2012, with the publication of the update of Beers criteria, this instrument was included in the study. We identified 163 PIM of 25 therapeutic classes, of which 125 (76.7%) are marketed in Brazil. Of these, 31 (24.8%) are essential medicines (RENAME 2012), of which 13 have safer therapeutic equivalents and 19 (15.2%) are over-the-counter drugs. Data suggest the need for inclusion of safer alternatives for the elderly in the national list of essential medicines and the pharmaceutical care for early detection of ADE in this age group, in order to contribute to the safe use of medicines.


Nutrients ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (11) ◽  
pp. 3492
Author(s):  
Yong-Suk Kwon ◽  
Yu-Yeong Yang ◽  
Younghee Park ◽  
Yoo-Kyoung Park ◽  
Sohye Kim

This study analyzed dietary assessment and factors according to fruits and vegetables intake in Korean elderly people. We enrolled 8336 Korean elderly people aged ≥65 who participated in the dietary intake survey (24-h recall methods) of the 2013–2018 Korea National Health and Nutrition Examination (KNHANES). The intake of fruits and unsalted/non-starchy vegetables was 372.06 g/day. According to age group, the intake in the age group 65–74 years as 422.47 g/day, and the intake in the age group 75 years + was 301.12 g/day. Based on the intake of daily meals and snacks, the intake of fruits and unsalted/non-starchy vegetables was the highest in snack-eating individuals (480.96 g/day). The subjects who consumed more than the World Health Organization (WHO)/World Cancer Research Fund (WCRF)’s plant food intake standards (over 400 g/day of intake of fruits and unsalted/non-starchy vegetables) were 35.47% of the elderly people. These results suggest that it is necessary to develop more fundamental strategies to increase fruits and vegetables intake among elderly people. Furthermore, the study outcomes are expected to provide basic information for developing education programs to improve the dietary life of Korean elderly people.


AL-HUKAMA ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 483-506
Author(s):  
Roisul Umam Hamzah

This is a field research that analyzes the marriage suitability of elderly people in Socah, Bangkalan under the theory of maqasid shari'ah. The elderly marriage is officially conducted at KUA (Religious Affairs Office) of Socah for different reasons, namely: on the basis of coercion to the bride so that the family relationship does not break up, resulting in reluctance, on the basis of family compassion and encouragement. It is because the bride is an old maid and is his own niece on the basis of mutual love, avoid immorality and seek peace of life in old age. All couples can fulfill both material and non-material obligations, although not as perfect as a young couple. Some husbands do not want to have children for fear of not being able to support even though in this case the wife really wants it. Thus, the marriage of the elderly in Socah is sometimes appropriate and not in accordance with the maqasid shari'ah. The suitability in question is in terms of hifz al-din (protecting religion) and hifz al-mal (protecting wealth), while its inadequacies are in terms of hifz al-nasl (protecting offspring), because of their desires to have offspring and in terms of hifz al-nafs (protecting soul), and hifz al-'aql (protecting ratio), because of differences in descent have the negative effect on family disharmony that can interfere with the soul and mind. In this case, an intense dialogue and approach must be made to the couple to be more open and understand each other.


2021 ◽  
Vol 55 (Különszám 2) ◽  
pp. 21-31
Author(s):  
Réka Hegedüs ◽  
Klaudia Rádóczy

THE AIMS OF THE PAPER The aim of our research is to provide a picture of the conditions for providing the income background necessary for old age, the spending habits of the 50 plus age group, and to illustrate how the old ages goup of our survey, the elderly age group we survey perceives changes in their spending in the last 10-year. METHODOLOGY We used a representative personal survey with 500 Hungarian people. This survey was made in February 2020 on a targeted sample of the Hungarian population aged 50-70. In the analysis method, we used cluster formation, because we tried to identify groups showing different consumption changes based on the consumption categories of the Hungarian Central Statistical Office. MOST IMPORTANT RESULTS, NEW FINDINGS The results show that the people who participated in the survey had little perception of a change in their spending compared to their life 10 years before. On the other hand, our retirement income in old age may lag far behind the income in active, working years, so we can assume that if the significant decline in income did not affect consumption patterns, old-age income may be supplemented by savings in old age. EMPIRICAL IMPLICATIONS OF THE RESEARCH The clusters that we made shows well that the spendings of the 50-plus age group are also significant for the economy as a whole. The types of their expenditures is diverse and there is a lot of items that they would not necessarily be able to afford from an average income funded by the pension scheme. The characteristics of the clusters also show that there is a positive relationship between financial awareness (planning spending, exploring sales) and age. In our oppinion this is the reason why financial awareness education, the communications about this is very important. The financial management of households can be incorporated into the education of children from an early age. Acknowledgments: This research was partially supported by the Human Resource Development Operational Programme, grant No.: EFOP-3.6.1-16-2016-00004 “Comprehensive developments at the University of Pécs for the implementation of intelligent specialization”


2019 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. 58-61
Author(s):  
Merina Shrestha ◽  
Ram Chandra Chaudhary

Background: Various aspects of socio-demographic conditions effect individual’s life at the time of an old age which ultimately make their life vulnerable and dependent on other people. Old age home is one of the important place for those elderly people whose spouse are not alive, have nuclear family background and no one at home to take care of them.  Aims and objectives: To study socio-demographic profile, disease morbidity and factors effecting elderly people to live in an old age homes. Material and method: A community based cross sectional qualitative study was conducted among geriatric age group 65 and above, without any physical and mental severity, and living in old age homes in community field area of department of community medicine of Nepalganj medical college from 14th April2019 to 16th September 2019.The total sample size was 84. Results: Majority of female occupants (63.1%) belonged to age group 65 to 75 years old. Half of them were illiterate and their spouses were not alive (71.4%). Family member’s migration (63.1%) and nuclear family (67.9%) were the contributory factors for living in old age homes. Conclusion: The result of the study showed that there is need of geriatric social services and health facilities for making elderly people financially and emotionally strong.


CNS Spectrums ◽  
2001 ◽  
Vol 6 (6) ◽  
pp. 502-506 ◽  
Author(s):  
Iris Haimov

AbstractBiological aging is often associated with sleep problems and daytime napping. Complaints of difficulty in initiating and maintaining sleep, as well as daytime drowsiness, are more common in the elderly than in any other age group. This report reviews evidence that impaired melatonin secretion is associated with sleep disorders in old age. Circulating melatonin levels have been found to be significantly lower and onset and peak times have been delayed in elderly insomniacs as compared to age-matched control subjects. In view of these findings, we investigated the effects of melatonin treatment on melatonin-deficient insomnia in the elderly. From the results of our study, it seems likely that melatonin replacement therapy may be beneficial in the initiation and maintenance of sleep in this population.


Rural China ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 156-187 ◽  

Abstract Based on the judicial archives of Li Town, Hebei Province, from the 1990s to the present, and six re-investigations of Houjiaying village, one of the six villages that the Japanese Mantetsu researchers studied in the 1930’s and 1940’s, this article uses the testamentary instruments and fieldwork research to show how intestate succession was gradually formed through the intertwined relationship between property and old-age support in contemporary rural North China. Testamentary instruments indicate the parental rights to dispose of their property and the questions-and-answers interview files reveal the old-age maintenance considerations that lie behind the provisions of the testaments. The fieldwork material plays a key role in connecting these two aspects by providing necessary background and relevant facts. This new empirical finding further confirms that old-age support is always considered a prerequisite to property succession. Testamentary succession differs from traditional modes of disposing of property and of succession in Qing and Republican China, but merges well property inheritance with concerns for the maintenance of the elderly. Although the law had undergone tremendous changes along with political and economic change, the tightly intertwined relationship between property inheritance and old-age support remains unaltered on the whole. Neither the simple continuation of traditional succession forms, nor the newly introduced modern concept of “individual property rights” can provide an explanation for this persistent relationship between property inheritance and old-age support. (This article is in Chinese.) 摘要 本文利用河北省李镇20世纪90年代至今的司法所档案,及对《惯调》所载的其中一个村庄——侯家营村——的六次回访调查. 借助档案中的遗嘱文书、问答记录和田野材料,考察了遗嘱继承在当代华北乡村的逐渐生成,以及遗嘱-赡养的结合. 遗嘱文书显现出来了父母对财产自由处分的形成,而问答记录恰好提供了审视遗嘱生成背后的赡养问题,田野材料则为两者的连接提供了背景材料和相关事实,显示了遗嘱(财产自由处分)-赡养的相互勾连这一全新的经验事实,遗嘱-赡养的结合又进一步证实了村民普遍将赡养作为财产继承的前提. 遗嘱代表着不同于清代和民国时期乡村财产的处分和继承形式,但是它却与赡养极好地结合了在一起. 民国至今,伴随着政治经济的变迁,法律也发生了巨大的变化, 但在财产继承上不变的是,财产和赡养的紧密缠绕关系. 这既不能为继承习惯延续一说所概括,也不能被现代的“个人财产权”所解释. 至于其未来变化的趋势,还有待于材料的进一步挖掘和持续的观察.


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