A summary of social practice activities of caring for empty nesters

# Activity Summary # Introduction When children leave home for work, study, marriage and other reasons, middle-aged and elderly couples who live alone in "empty nest" have psychological barriers, which is called family "empty nest" syndrome. Let's share with you a summary of social practice activities of caring for empty nesters. Welcome to read!

A summary of social practice activities of caring for empty nesters

First, the preliminary preparation

It just arrived in July, and is improving the project and contacting relevant personnel. Now we have agreed to set the practice time on July 10, so we will prepare the necessary items for the practice together on July 10. 10 and 1 1 day, I went to the pre-planned practice site to analyze the feasibility and effect of the practice, and contacted some neighborhood committees to promote the implementation of the practice.

After two days of on-the-spot investigation, we made relevant adjustments to the team's plan, among which the changes were in volunteer service. The expected practice place is in xx county, but because the scope is too large, there are many more children than in previous years, so we changed the volunteer service place to xx district committee. On 12, all the team members returned, and the team held a meeting to focus on what might happen in the incident and clarify everyone's work on plan adjustment. We are all full of fighting spirit and confidence, ready to meet the official start of practice.

Second, volunteers who care for left-behind children are in action.

Volunteer service is one of the main contents of this practical activity. This volunteer service focuses on the theme of left-behind children. Left-behind children refer to children whose parents or one of them goes out to work and stays in the countryside. They usually live with one of their parents, or with relatives of their predecessors, or even with other relatives and friends of their parents. Some children are not in the countryside, but their parents have been working outside for a long time or their parents rarely stay with their children because of work, which is also a kind of left-behind children.

In xx neighborhood committee, there are such a group of children whose parents have been working outside for a long time. These children gather in a place called "Deep Willow Small Dining Table". The teacher helps the children study and takes care of their daily life. As a student in changsha civil administration, after knowing this situation, I feel that we have an obligation to do something for them, so our team started a ten-day volunteer service activity at the "Deep Willow Small Table".

On the first day of going to the small dining table, we first learned about the situation with Director Luo, the relevant staff member of the neighborhood Committee, and got a general understanding of the characteristics of each child here. I just met these dozen children, and I don't know how to start to integrate into this group of children. Before I came, my idea was that playing with children should be easy and there is no need to prepare deliberately. However, when I really started doing it, I didn't know where to start. On the first day, the children were having a handicraft class. I learned to make handicrafts with the children, and soon became one with them. In the following days, we gradually became one. Every morning, we help the children with their studies. In the afternoon, Director Luo will give them painting and handicraft classes. In the evening, we will play games downstairs with our children. In practice, we also took them to visit many places.

After understanding, most of their parents go out to work, except Saturday and Sunday, and rarely have contact with their children. The child told me that before he came here, he killed time by playing games, which was very harmful to his health. Among these children, I found that some children are violent, and some children are withdrawn and do not like to communicate with others. At the same time, through talking with them, I learned that although some people play here, they hope their parents can spend more time with them. They hope they can go to school with their parents like other children and go out to play with their parents on weekends.

In recent years, the crime rate of left-behind children in cities is also rising, which highlights the contradiction between going out to work and children's education. Relevant persons said that the fundamental way to solve the contradiction is that the government should ensure the stability of migrant workers' work and income, reform the urban education system, make the children of migrant workers receive education easily, and vigorously develop the economy so that migrant workers don't have to worry about their livelihood.

In this sense, left-behind children are not only educational and social problems, but also economic system problems. The impact of this on left-behind children in cities should not be underestimated. First of all, the long-term absence of parents will cause children's fear, which will lead to children's timid habits; Secondly, the city has many temptations. From this perspective, left-behind children in cities are much more dangerous than left-behind children in rural areas, and a little carelessness will have various adverse consequences. What countermeasures can be taken?

First, more and more migrant workers are taking their children to work in cities. However, due to many restrictions on household registration, the government should lift their restrictions on employment, medical care and education.

Second, the society should establish more organizations, such as "activity bases for left-behind children", and actively care for left-behind children. In addition, we should strongly encourage college students to volunteer. College students can bring advanced ideas to their children while volunteering, which is beneficial to their growth.

Third, social surveys pay more attention to empty nesters.

Social investigation with the theme of "empty nesters" is a big module of this social practice. "Empty nesters" generally refer to middle-aged and elderly couples after their children leave home. With the deepening of social aging, there are more and more empty nesters, which has become a social problem that cannot be ignored. Jinan, as the provincial capital, has good medical conditions, relatively serious aging and a large number of empty nesters. In view of this situation, we launched a social survey on the cognition of empty nesters at all levels of society.

This social survey is mainly conducted in the form of one-on-one questionnaire chat. It is important to know the respondents' views on this issue in detail through chatting and supplemented by questionnaire survey. The social investigation lasted for 3 days, mainly going to scenic spots with large traffic and places where empty nesters are concentrated. We arrived at X District, xx Pedestrian Street (twice), xx Pedestrian Street, West Station, Huangshantou and Great Whale Harbor. Although the investigation time was chosen in the afternoon, the weather was still very hot, and it rained heavily during the investigation in the pedestrian street and the Great Whale Port, we still conducted the investigation. Rejection is also common in the process of investigation. We can't help but flinch from rejection all the time, but we encourage each other and solve difficulties together. When we did the questionnaire on the pedestrian street, we also met MLM staff. We left in time and reported the situation to the security department.

The survey shows that people of different places and ages have different views on the problem of empty nesters. In terms of the elderly, the elderly in Huangshantou have better living conditions and rich spiritual life. They said that although the children are not around, they live a rich life, and they tend to let them pursue their own lives. Most elderly people in Shenliu District and Pedestrian Street think that getting old is a burden for their children, so they don't bother their children if they can live.

Summary of social practice activities of caring for empty nesters II

Someone said, "A lamp came in, but a lock came out." This is a portrayal of many empty nesters. But I want to say: "As long as there is love, even if the nest is empty, their hearts will not be empty."

On June 20xx 14, I went to visit grandma xx, an empty nester in the community, after a three-week on-the-job training in the community of xx Street School. This 83-year-old grandmother is fond of laughing. As soon as she came in, she enthusiastically dragged us to sit on the sofa. We chatted with her, listened to her laugh and tasted her happiness.

Grandma Lu has two sons and a daughter. The girl went to America thousands of miles away to accompany her granddaughter. Although her eldest son works in China, the old man lives alone for a long time because of his busy work. 83 years left a mark on her face, but it will never take away her good attitude.

For hours, she talked with us about her life. Although she has been living alone, she is not lonely because of the rich activities in the community.

Every sunny morning, she takes two bus stops and goes to Xinghai Park to play sword. After exercising for about two hours, I went home by bus. In addition, she is the head of the Tai Fan Chi Dance Company in the community. Because of the strong support of the community, she leads a group of sisters to play Tai Chi fans in the dance studio provided by the community every week, hoping to keep fit and gain precious friendship in her later years. She smiled and said to us, "I am old and have plenty of time to be alone, but I am not allowed to think about other things." Every day is very fulfilling. " We marvel at her physical tenacity and admire her young mind.

Grandma Lu said that when the weather is hot, several empty nesters will hold a table of mahjong in front of the building and good sisters will polish their time together. She took us to see the rose garden in front of the building. As soon as spring came, she began to plant flowers and greet the coming year with colorful roses.

The children are not around, and the wife has long since left. For a woman in her 80 s, only she can understand the hardships and loneliness. However, perhaps the lonely image of empty nesters in our imagination is so ingrained that when we see this cheerful grandmother, we can only marvel at her wisdom. She is not sad or upset, lives a happy life and knows how to be grateful to everyone who helps her.

She keeps telling us that the community cares about her. Every holiday, the community always invites them to organize programs to celebrate as empty nesters. In addition, the community also provides them with universities for the aged, and they can choose courses according to their own interests to pass the boring time.

Grandma Lu also loves reading. She always borrows some good books from the library provided by the community and goes home to read them slowly. She can sing and dance, and she knows others. She is really a talented woman who impressed us deeply!

When we asked about her children, the old man enlightened and said, "She knows children. Two generations have different concepts, and there will be friction when living together. " We are naturally motivated and our hearts are full of warmth. This is a kind of maternal love, even if a person's room is slightly empty, but her heart has always been filled with concern for her children. She must be very lonely in the dead of night, and she has the pain of missing her children but not seeing them. However, this mother enjoys life with a good attitude, healthy body and grateful eyes, because she knows that all she can do is not to worry about her children who are far away from home. This is a more intelligent love!

Although we came to visit her and accompany her, I didn't know that grandma Lu was actually our teacher and the embodiment of the old man in time.

I still remember her childlike stubbornness, and she must find a chair for every temporary student; Remember when she couldn't hear clearly, what twisted her back as close as possible to us. She is like the sunshine in this winter, so soft and warm.

Even in winter, empty nesters still have their complacency and strength. And what we can do, perhaps more should be companionship. Chatting with them, reading newspapers, singing, watching TV and even sunbathing. Even if they do nothing, they are so satisfied and willing.

Helpless, time is pressing, and I have to say goodbye again. Before we left, we kept waving to Grandma Lu, and she kept repeating "Come again next time".

I don't know what this short activity can bring to her, but her calm and serene face in the sun comforted and moved me. Yes, time still brings people vicissitudes and infections. But because there is love in life, there is a warm human touch behind the ruthless time.

A summary of social practice activities of caring for empty nesters (3)

When I got home, I heard that an old man jumped off a building in our community, which made me start to care about the problem of empty nesters. To this end, I collected some information on the internet; I watched several interview videos of empty nesters. I also visited an apartment for the elderly in our community. Generally speaking, their living conditions are not optimistic and they still face many problems. Here is a brief report on my "investigation" during this period.

The so-called empty nest, that is, "empty nest", is a metaphor for the scene after a bird leaves its nest, and now it is extended to the empty and lonely state of the family after its children leave. Empty nesters are elderly people who have no children or whose children are not around and live alone. Life is inconvenient, mental loneliness, illness and torture. Empty nesters are often only known to themselves.

China has entered a period of rapid population aging, with the elderly population1.69 billion, accounting for 1.2% of the total population. According to the statistics of the National Office for Ageing, nearly half of the elderly belong to empty-nest families in urban and rural areas. According to the statistics released by Beijing Office for the Aged, the elderly population in Beijing will reach 2.5 million next year, accounting for 15.2% of the city's permanent population, while the number of empty nesters will exceed1000000, accounting for 40% of the total elderly population.

At present, the average annual growth rate of the elderly population in China is 3.28%, which is about five times of the total population growth rate, and the proportion of the elderly population in the total population will expand rapidly. Experts predict that by 2030, there will be nearly 300 million elderly people in China, and the proportion of empty nesters will reach 90%, which means there will be more than 200 million empty nesters.

The problems faced by empty nesters now mainly include the following three aspects.

First, children are not well taken care of and life is not easy.

According to the statistics of the National Office for Ageing, elderly people who take care of themselves partially or completely account for13 of the total elderly population in China, and many of them are empty nesters. The research group of Fujian Gerontology Society conducted an investigation on empty nesters in urban and rural areas. Through sampling survey, it is found that nearly 20% empty nesters find it difficult to be uninhabited. For them, eating, bathing and doing simple housework have become the difficulties of life.

I once saw a talk show about empty nesters, and I still remember that picture. A young female reporter went to visit an old lady who lived in an alley in Beijing. She is still unmarried, living in a single room and living a simple life. The female reporter stayed in the old man's house until the evening, recording the life of the old man's day. At night, when the old man took off his feet to soak his feet, the female reporter couldn't help crying. The old man's fingernails were long and deformed because of pruning. When the girl asked about the situation, the old man just said that his legs were too old to bend and cut. The girl took out a nail clipper from her bag to cut the old man's nails. I only heard from the old man that a social worker came to cut it for me a few months ago.

In March of 20xx, Professor xx, a 75-year-old academician of Chinese Academy of Sciences and praised by the international medical community as "the father of replantation of severed limbs in the world", accidentally fell from his building in Shanghai and died unfortunately. Uncle Xu, 87, lives alone in a residential area in Shijingshan, Beijing. The continuous heavy snow this winter made Uncle Xu's family "cut off food" and the old man could not go out to buy food. Late at night, his grandson brought food to the old man. He just finished his work. Grandma Wang, who lives in Wukesong, Beijing, waited for a long time but failed to solve the heating problem. In desperation, she could only hide in the bed with a warm water bag and call her son for help.

Second, depression and illness.

"What can I hope when I am old? I am blind! " How many empty nesters are sad in one sentence. It is reported that at the beginning of this year, in Jinan, Shandong Province, three empty nesters committed suicide within a week; An empty nester in Fuzhou missed his children so much that he committed suicide by jumping off a building on the Double Ninth Festival this year.

The decline of physical function, the loss of personal value and the lack of children all make empty nesters feel lost and lose hope for life. According to the investigation on the psychological state of empty nesters in Beijing, Shanghai, Wuhan, Xiamen and other places, it shows that gloomy mood, depression, loneliness, loss of appetite, sleep disorder, grumpy or frowning, difficult to get along with others, muddling along and so on are common psychological experiences and emotional states of empty nesters, and some empty nesters even think of suicide.

According to household surveys conducted by Shanghai Office for the Aged and Ningbo Office for the Aged, more than 90% empty nesters hope to communicate, entertain and be useful with others in their later years. The survey on the activity demand of empty nesters in Gulou District of Nanjing shows that it is the primary emotional sustenance for many empty nesters to hope that their children will call more often and go home often. Organizing public welfare activities for the elderly and establishing activity rooms for the elderly have become the main psychological demands of empty nesters to alleviate their lonely lives.

Investigation on the physical condition of empty nesters in Beijing, Xiamen, Yanji and other areas shows that more than 90% of the elderly suffer from various diseases, and more than half of them suffer from at least one chronic disease. According to the survey report of empty nesters in urban and rural areas of Fujian Province, 54.64% of the elderly said they were most afraid of getting sick because no one took care of them.

Empty nesters often face three kinds of "helpless" dilemmas when facing diseases: sudden illness is unknown, chronic diseases are neglected, and medical expenses are too high to bear. The disease problem is particularly obvious in rural empty nesters. The survey of empty nesters in rural areas of Hubei Province shows that only 40.7% of empty nesters think it is convenient to see a doctor. Facing the disease, 55.6% of the old people interviewed chose "simple treatment", 16.2% chose "intermittent treatment", only 2 1.8% adopted "regular treatment" and 6.4% gave up treatment. Shanghai Office for the Aged found that more than 90% empty nesters choose to provide medical care services, including routine physical examination, regular home care and emergency assistance.

Third, the policy guarantee is insufficient and social assistance is absent.

As a country that grows old before getting rich, the elderly are the most urgent and need to solve the problems of "support" and "medical care". The present situation of urban and rural old-age security in China is not optimistic. At present, the protection of "support" mainly includes urban and rural endowment insurance and minimum living security. According to statistics, about 10% of the elderly in cities have no pension, and about 80% of the elderly in rural areas have no pension. Many farmers simply don't know what endowment insurance is.

The protection of "medical care" includes urban medical insurance, rural new cooperative medical care system, medical assistance and life assistance system for the poor elderly in urban and rural areas.

In recent years, the party and the government have continuously established and improved various medical security systems and medical assistance systems, and promoted the reform of the medical and health system, which has greatly improved the medical security situation of the elderly, but more than half of the empty nesters still do not enjoy any medical security. The problem that it is difficult for the elderly to see a doctor and look down upon it still needs to be alleviated.

There are two main ways to provide for the elderly with empty nests: institutional care and home care, but the beds in existing social care institutions in China are less than the demand of112; Home-based care for the aged still faces a series of problems such as lack of investment service platform and low professional service level.

Institutional pension mainly refers to providing all-round services such as daily life, medical care, entertainment and leisure for the elderly through the establishment of apartments, nursing homes, nursing homes and welfare homes for the elderly. According to the survey, about 6.5438+0.4 million elderly people in China request to enter welfare institutions for the elderly every year, but there are only more than one million beds in various welfare institutions, which is far from meeting the demand.

Home-based care for the aged refers to providing socialized services for the elderly at home, with family as the core, community as the support, professional services as the support, and solving daily life difficulties as the main content. At present, home-based care for the aged is the main way of providing for the aged in China. Affected by traditional habits, more than 80% of the elderly still want to support the elderly at home.