The university for the aged is a classroom for the elderly to update their knowledge, a place for keeping fit and nourishing their hearts, a garden for happy entertainment, a platform for making friends and a base for intellectual development. With the increase of the elderly population in China, universities for the elderly rose in many places in China in 1980s. 1973, the world's first university for the aged was established in France.
The university for the aged has a very flexible way of running a school, which includes centralized teaching in a fixed place and remote teaching. The teaching content of the university for the aged is very rich, mainly including health preservation, cooking, art and so on.
The role of universities for the aged:
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.
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".