"Living together for the aged" is a new mode of providing for the aged. After the death of some old people's wives, their children were too busy to take care of their work and were not used to the life in nursing homes, so some old people joined together voluntarily to spend their old age together because of similar interests. The ideal old-age care is to solve three problems: a sense of security, a sense of happiness and a sense of worthiness. From this point of view, the mode of "living together for the aged" not only solves the problem of providing for the aged, but also solves the problem of providing for the aged more pertinently. Old people are most afraid of loneliness, especially those whose children are not around. "Cohabitation for the aged" is obviously a good medicine to drive out loneliness.

"Elderly cohabitation"

In China, with the continuous improvement of the aging population, how to achieve a sense of security, happiness and worthiness for the elderly has become an urgent problem for China. According to the statistics of civil affairs departments, by the end of 20 14, there were about 2120,000 elderly people in China, including 80-plus elderly people 15% and disabled and semi-disabled elderly people 15%.

Miao Ruilan, Deputy Secretary-General of China Social Welfare Foundation, made a special survey on the old-age care model in China, pointing out that it took more than 45 years for the proportion of the elderly over 65 in developed countries to rise from 7% to 14%, while it took only 27 years for China to complete this process.

What worries the academic circles even more is that although China's traditional culture advocates "filial piety" and family support for the elderly, the practical basis for implementing this "filial piety" is gradually weakening and shaking. The most outstanding performance is the change of family structure. Now the mainstream family structure in China has become the only child, which means that the burden of providing for the aged for the younger generation will become very heavy. In addition, the acceleration of population movement has led to the increasingly prominent phenomenon of intergenerational separation, and a considerable number of elderly people in China live alone at home and become empty nesters. Even young people who live in the same city as their parents find it difficult to spend more time with their parents because of high-intensity work and fast-paced life.