每年的重阳节前后，老人们会得到格外的关注：领导慰问，亲友来访，政府送来津贴礼品，这些都会让老人家里和 养老院里热闹一番。但老人脸上的笑容、节日的喜庆气氛、社会的一时关注，却不能掩盖我国老龄化社会的现状，不能缓解养老问题给社会带来的压力，不能化解老 人缺养的现实问题。
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●60岁以上老人数量及占比：2011年，1.78亿，13.3%；2015年，2.21亿，16%；2020年，2.48亿，17.2%。 Continue reading
ublished October 11, 2011 in Arabic Knowledge@Wharton
Shanghai’s elderly are everywhere. Stretching in morning exercises in parks, sunning themselves on benches during the day and dancing on the sidewalks at twilight, they are just one of many constant reminders of the daunting challenge China faces in providing for its fast-aging population. Less than a third of its elderly are covered by pension schemes today, and though programs are now being expanded to cover a wider range of pensioners, the problem is likely to get worse before it gets better.
China is now reaching a “tipping point” — as a percentage of the total population, China’s workforce has peaked while the number of elderly is soaring, says Richard Jackson, director of the Global Aging Institute at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) in Washington, D.C. This is mainly due to the one-child policy, which combined with rising affluence has accelerated a sharp decline in fertility. “The fertility decline was extremely steep, from five children per women on average in the early 1970s to two by the late 1980s and now 1.6,” he adds. Continue reading
10月5日是中华民族传统敬老节日――重阳节，同时，9月15日至10月15日是我国第二个“敬老月”，为营造尊老敬老的社会氛围，增强全社会关爱老人意识，杭州市精心筹备，部署“五送”活动，丰富老年人精神文化生活，提高老年人生活品质，积极应对人口老龄化。
一是开展宣传送祝福。积极协调报刊、电台、电视台、网络等媒体开展“敬老月”主题宣传活动，通过开设专栏、制作专题节目等形式宣传尊老敬老先进典型和感人 事迹、人口老龄化发展趋势及对策、老龄工作方针政策及老龄事业的成就经验等，多渠道、多形式、多层次营造敬老助老的良好社会氛围。 Continue reading
