“孩奴”一族日渐增多 生活艰辛只因孩子(组图)
经济改革30年，大时代影响小人物，传统生活方式瓦解，挑战、矛盾与挫折应运而生。这其中也包括“传统生育观”与“严酷生活现实”的冲突。社保未必靠得住，但孩子早已不是养老存折，“养儿防老”的观念就此瓦解。孩子基本成为普通人获得天伦之乐与自我价值实现的源泉。但，养育孩子的经济成本正在追随房价、医疗价格日日高涨，威逼的成本正在挑战中国人养育观念之底线。不生，传统观念在，心理需求也在；生，影响生活质量，未必能许他一个更好的未来。生还是不生，要不要做“孩奴”，年轻一代正在生育问题上面临着前所未有的挑战！
2009年09月03日08:41 人民网-人民日报 李晓宏 我要评论(11886)
空巢老人。人民图片
“都说养儿能防老，可儿山高水远他乡留”，一句心酸的歌词道出对养老问题的担忧。
有人说， “21世纪是老人的世纪”，中国尤是。日前，全国老龄委办公室副主任吴玉韶指出，中国正开始进入人口老龄化快速发展期，老年人口由年均增加311万人，发展到年均增加800万人。
根据国家人口计生委的数据，2007年，中国65岁以上老年人口，已达1.04亿，到本世纪40年代，将达到峰值3.2亿。届时，平均每5个人中就有1个65岁以上的老人。
专家预测，中国人口红利期将在2033年关闭。之后，社会总抚养比迅速上升，在本世纪后50年，达到80％以上，意即每10个劳动年龄人口至少抚养8个人。现在，距离这个窗口期，只有24年。 Continue reading
Susan Jeffrey Authors and Disclosures
July 14, 2009 (Vienna, Austria) — Results of 2 new studies show that both the incidence and prevalence of dementia continue to rise in a linear fashion among the so-called “oldest old,” those in their 80s and 90s and even among centenarians.
The results, from the population-based Monzino 80-Plus Study in Italy and the 90+ Study in the United States, would appear to contradict fairly conclusively the previously held idea that conversion to dementia plateaus or even declines in this oldest-old population.
“The prevalence and incidence rates of dementia found in the Monzino 80-Plus study continue to rise also in very advanced ages,” Ugo Lucca, MD, from the Laboratory of Geriatric Neuropsychiatry at the Istituto di Ricerche Farmacologiche Mario Negri, in Milan, Italy. “Age remains the most important risk factor for dementia, and we need to further our understanding of its role if effective therapeutic and preventive strategies are to be developed.”
Claudia Kawas, MD, from the University of California, Irvine, showed a linear increase in dementia risk from 10% in the 90- to 95-year-olds to a “whopping” 41% for centenarians in the 90+ Study.
“I for one just spent about 2 decades of my career suggesting that the incidence rates of dementia go down after age 85,” she said. “This just goes to show that you really don’t know what you think you know.” Continue reading
