What are the advantages of family old age?

I. Advantages and Disadvantages of Family Elderly Care

Family eldercare, as the main way of eldercare in China, is accepted by the majority of people. It is realized by the family as the main body, through the family members, mainly the children's support.

Parents' love for their children and children's support for the elderly is not only a fine tradition of the Chinese nation, but also a responsibility and obligation written into the law. It can be said that the Chinese nation is through this form of iterative inheritance to today. Parents raise their children, children support their parents, is a natural obligation responsibility.

1. Advantages

Family pension as the main way of old age of the elderly, is its certain advantages.

The most basic economic security. Our country has a large population, the elderly is not a few, although in recent years, China's economy has made great progress. Still belongs to the developing countries, per capita GDP per capita share is still very low, the country for the elderly social security financial resources are still insufficient, so let the country to assume the social old age is not realistic.

Therefore, a family-based old age pension can basically guarantee the minimum financial needs for old age. Elderly people have their own house or live with their children. There are also most people elderly people have their own pension, plus the children's income combined, can meet the elderly basic living without worry.

Care is more thoughtful. Their own children to take care of the elderly, all aspects are more familiar with the elderly body, requirements, hobbies, habits and so on very understand, do not need a lot of communication to know what the elderly need. And to take care of their own loved ones, they must also do their best, do not dare to be sloppy.

The psychological and spiritual life of the elderly is favorable. Family old age, with their children together. The elderly do not feel isolated, children often talk to the elderly, comfort, the elderly spirit and psychology is a kind of comfort.

2. Disadvantages

There are a lot of advantages of family pension, but the disadvantages are also obvious.

It will increase the financial burden of the family. Family pension is certainly to aggravate the family's various expenditures, the basic life is okay, but if the old man's health is not good, this aspect of the expenditure will increase. At the same time will also increase the burden of child support. This burden will be heavier especially for most one-child families. This is because they may have to bear the burden of supporting the elderly in both the husband's and wife's families.

There are deficiencies in medical treatment for the elderly. Many elderly people have illnesses, even serious ones, and others are bedridden, with dementia and long-term chronic illnesses. In the home on the treatment will be incompetent, the disposal of sudden illness is even more powerless.

Causing family conflicts. As the saying goes, long-term illness is no filial son, the words, although a little heavy, but it is also a reflection of the shortcomings of the family old age.

Elderly people and children live together, living habits, lifestyle, are not the same, together for a long time, it is inevitable that family conflicts will occur. Especially in the family with bedridden sick elderly family. The children themselves have to work, but also to support the family. Take care of the elderly and take up too much energy, sometimes a few words of complaint, the elderly do not understand, family conflicts will occur.

So after analyzing the advantages and disadvantages of the family pension, the following to talk about the social pension in the nursing home is suitable for the elderly?

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The nursing home should first of all be suitable for the elderly to age, there are public, private. There are many forms, there are nursing homes, homes for the elderly, care homes and so on. All of them provide elderly care services for the elderly. This has become an important part of China's elderly care.

Social institutions for the elderly have the following advantages:

One is that these types of nursing homes provide comprehensive services, basically 24-hour round-the-clock care, which ensures that the elderly, especially those with mobility problems and illnesses, can be better cared for to ensure that they have three meals a day and a basic daily life.

The second is that the infrastructure is complete and the medical facilities are more complementary. There are professional medical caregivers or necessary medical instruments. The physical condition of the elderly can be supervised at any time, and treatment and rehabilitation training can be provided to those who are physically ill and have mobility problems.

Third, the community in addition to ensuring that the elderly eat well and live well, but also to provide better recreational and social activities, such as organizing fitness, painting and calligraphy, piano and chess and other counseling, which facilitates the activities of the elderly and exchanges, so that they live a more enjoyable life.

Fourth, nursing homes greatly reduce the pressure on families and children. Nursing homes have professional staff to take care of the elderly, and provide quality services in terms of clothing, food, housing, transportation and health care to ensure the quality of life of the elderly.

Of course, the shortcomings of social institutions also exist:

One is that nursing homes are a mixed bag. Especially in recent years, there have been constant rumors of individual nursing home abuse of the elderly behavior, by people's concerns. This shows that the development of nursing homes is still unbalanced, the community's supervision is still not in place.

The second is that some of the elderly are still not adapted. Long-term life in a nursing home, inevitably caused by the elderly, and their own children with less and less emotional exchanges. In particular, many elderly people feel that they have been abandoned by their families and children, no matter, more and more do not adapt to feel lonely, causing some mental illness.

Third, the individual nursing home hardware construction is not perfect, software, the most important is the quality of management personnel is not high, the level of service to be further improved.