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Abstract Rural mutual aid elderly care, as an emerging elderly care model, has become an exploration and attempt to rebuild rural communities in the process of rural social transformation. At present, in the vast underdeveloped rural areas, the rural mutual aid elderly care model is faced with such problems as imperfect policies and regulations, insufficient funds, single service items, lack of professional services, and limited functions of civil organizations. It is necessary to strengthen the formulation and improvement of laws and regulations, and to ensure the stable source of funds, enhance the level of specialization, and give full play to the functions of social organizations in the rural mutual aid elderly care model, so as to promote the sustainable development of the rural mutual aid elderly care model.
Key Words Rural mutual aid elderly care, Social organization, Restricting factors
1 Introduction
Rural mutual aid elderly care was originated from the first mutual aid nursing home established in Feixiang County, Hebei Province in August 2008. The biggest feature of this model is that the government can support it, the village can afford it, and the farmers can use it. The rural mutual aid elderly care model is a new elderly care model between pure social elderly care and home-based elderly care. It is a new model of home-social elderly care and is an extension of home-based elderly care and conforms to the demands of the rural areas ^ . Dazhou City is located in the eastern part of Sichuan Province, south of Daba Mountain, at the junction of Sichuan, Yunnan, Shaanxi and Hubei provinces. As an old revolutionary base area of China, Dazhou City is relatively backward in the overall economic and social development level, has a large population and a weak foundation. Most of areas of Dazhou City are labor exporting places, and the problem of family empty nest is very serious. With the strict implementation of the family planning policy, the people^s living standards have improved significantly, and the medical conditions have generally improved. The elderly population in Dazhou has shown a explosion trend. The family structure is changing to the core family as the main part, the population movement is increasing, the empty nesters are increasing, and the economic competition is intensifying....