Why should we pay attention to aging? Is there any harm in population aging?

I. Social Problems Caused by Population Aging

1. Increased Financial Pressure on Public ****. Year by year, the increasing number of elderly people have more and more demand for old age, medical care, social services and so on. On the one hand, the elderly do not work but need pensions, on the other hand, the elderly physical decline, easy to get sick, the pressure of medical and health care consumer spending is getting bigger and bigger.

2. Strong demand for social services for the elderly. The development of services for the elderly is seriously lagging behind, and it is difficult to meet the service needs of the large elderly population, especially the rapidly growing number of "empty nests", the elderly and the elderly with illness.

3. The ethical problems of ageing are becoming more and more prominent. With the increase in the number of empty nesters and the increase in the number of only children, the traditional family old-age care has been challenged, and the concepts of filial piety and support for the elderly between generations are becoming increasingly diluted, with the tradition of the family providing the most basic livelihood security for the elderly being weakened continuously.

4. Labor shortage. Population aging will reduce the size of the working-age population, making it difficult to continue the "demographic dividend".

5, population aging also has a greater impact on industrial restructuring. Older labor force due to intellectual decline, the ability to accept new things decline, innovation is not enough, is not conducive to the adjustment of industrial structure.

Two, countermeasures and recommendations

Strengthening research on population aging, the development of practical ways to protect the elderly is imperative.

1, accelerate the old age economic security. Adjust the economic structure, accelerate industrial transformation and upgrading, accelerate economic development, improve labor productivity, reduce the financial burden of public ****.

2, the establishment of social security system for the elderly. National insurance, personal savings insurance, medical insurance for serious illnesses, social and commercial insurance organically combined, vigorously implement the urban and rural medical assistance system for the needy, improve the rural five guarantees of support system, the full implementation of the new rural cooperative medical system, the establishment of the minimum subsistence guarantee system for rural residents in places with the conditions, a multi-pronged approach to improve the population's "sunset" time to resist risks.

3 The "sunset" period of the population's ability to withstand risks.

3, take the family old-age and social old-age pension combination of old-age road. The establishment of the family as the basis for the elderly, community elderly service network as a supplement, public **** welfare facilities for the elderly as a supplement, the social insurance system for the protection of the elderly at home system is particularly important.

4, encourage and support the role of the elderly. The State can study the introduction of policies to gradually raise the retirement age, and localities can take various forms to create conditions for the re-employment of the elderly.

5. Actively develop industries for the elderly. Focusing on the material and spiritual needs of the elderly, adjusting the industrial structure, development and production of a variety of consumer goods for the elderly. The development of social welfare undertakings by the aging industry. Launch the aging industry mechanism to build social welfare facilities. The development of old age service industry, cultivate the elderly service intermediary organizations, training professional social service team for the elderly.