The university for the aged is a classroom for the "empty nest" elderly to update their knowledge, a place to keep fit and nourish their souls, a garden for fun and entertainment, a platform for making friends and a base for intellectual development.
The "empty nest" elderly are a generation or live alone. With the rapid development of market economy, obvious changes in population structure, miniaturization of family size and changes in the values of the younger generation, the number of "empty nest" families in China has increased dramatically.
The data shows that by 2005, "empty nest" families have exceeded half of the elderly families. Most college students for the aged are "empty nesters" or quasi-senior students.
The university for the aged is the product of the times and the need to adapt to the aging society, build a lifelong learning society and a harmonious society. With the improvement of living and medical conditions, the pace of aging in China has accelerated, and China's population has entered an aging stage.
Facing the aging society, the party, government and school leaders attach great importance to the work of the elderly. Comrade Hu Jintao once profoundly pointed out that respecting the elderly means respecting the laws of life, social development and history.
Over the years, the party and the government have been emphasizing the improvement of the scientific and cultural quality of the whole nation. The report of the 16th National Congress of the Communist Party of China regards "forming a learning society with all-people learning and lifelong learning, and promoting people's all-round development" as one of the goals of building a well-off society in an all-round way, and the elderly should continue to achieve the goal of all-round development.
University for the aged is an important means to achieve this goal and the most appropriate embodiment of "lifelong learning".
To meet the above five needs of the "empty nest" elderly, the university for the aged can play an active role. It is a warm home for the "empty nest" elderly.
References:
Baidu encyclopedia-university of senior citizen