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Chinese Agricultural Science Bulletin ›› 2015, Vol. 31 ›› Issue (24): 285-290.doi: 10.11924/j.issn.1000-6850.casb15060002

Special Issue: 现代农业发展与乡村振兴

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Research on Problems of the Left-behind Elderly in Rural Western Industrial Cities: Take Baoji as an Example

Xu Yuxia   

  1. (Key Laboratory of Disaster Monitoring and Mechanism Simulating of Shaanxi Province/Baoji University of Arts and Sciences, Baoji Shaanxi 721013)
  • Received:2015-06-01 Revised:2015-07-29 Accepted:2015-06-17 Online:2015-08-26 Published:2015-08-26

Abstract: The study aims to understand the current living status of the left-behind elderly in Baoji city, and provide policy references for the government to solve the problems of the left-behind elderly. In this paper, the living status of 354 left-behind elderly from 4 towns of Baoji City were investigated and compared using questionnaire survey and home interview. The results showed that the living status of the left-behind elderly in rural areas of Baoji had the following problems: poor health conditions, the village clinic could not meet the left-behind elderly demand; single source of income, material standard of living was low; the lack of spiritual and cultural life, no village elderly activity center at present; inter-generational education pressure, unattended life. To improve and enhance the living conditions of rural left-behind elderly in Baoji, it is necessary to further improve the new rural cooperative medical care system, to find a number of ways to increase the income of left-behind elderly, to build village elderly centers, and to have nurseries and pre-schools to ease inter-generational education pressure for the left-behind elderly.