Because I have lived in the old town for a long time, and I am also getting old quickly, I really feel the same about aging.Whether it is the fascinating left and right house, or the white things that seem to be busy in the bottom of the house, and reports that the solitary old man who lived in the Xinming Daily from time to time died at home, and he reminded me, aging and death, death and death.It is an important issue that both individuals and countries are difficult to avoid.
The data was shocked to check the data. In another three years, Singapore would become a super -aging society.This is naturally due to the continuous improvement of local people's living standards and medical levels, and the life span of the people is prolonged, but the pressure of pension in the entire society has increased sharply.
In April of this year, the Minister of Health Wang Yikang pointed out in Congress's debate that Singapore will deal with the five major aspects of housing, maintaining active labor teams, retirement guarantees, pension in situ, and good governance to cope with the age of aging.Create a community of tolerance for the elderly in terms of housing; improve the employment rate of the elderly in the economy to solve the economic problems of the elderly; the retirement guarantee is promoted to the lifelong income plan of the provident fund; it is also prepared in community pension and medical care.These all show that at the government level, Singapore has a good forward -looking, can plan ahead, and formulate sustainable plans for future development.
There are two reasons for Singapore to enter an aging society. One is that people have increased their life expectancy and the elderly have become more; secondly, the fertility rate has fallen year after year, and there are too few young people.There are two reasons for the low fertility rate.The first is that young people are under pressure and are unwilling to give birth; the second factor that is very easy to be ignored is that even if it is born, it is very late.In the past 20 people had children in their early 20s, and there were third generations in their 40s.It is a common phenomenon that modern people have begun to have children in their 30s.Late marriage like me, children are too late, children of peers are often more than ten years older than my child.In this way, the two generations have less a whole generation than others.In addition to encouraging many lives in Singapore in the future, another place to be ignored by the government is to encourage early birth through policy adjustments.The introduction of some young immigrants and filling in manpower shortages will also be a long -lasting national policy.
The economic impact brought by the aging society is not small. The reason is that many of the people who have entered the ages of 70s and 80s have been limited by the times.Therefore, many people did not accumulate enough provident fund and savings when they were young.In modern economy and society, there is almost no money to do it, not to mention that the elderly still face huge medical and care expenses.Therefore, on the one hand, the government encourages employers and enterprises to hire elderly employees through allowances and tax exemptions, and also allows cash to be cash withdrawal plans to repurchase the house deeds, so that low -paying elderly employees have more decent older employees.
Elderly live alone will become an increasingly urgent issue.Only the loneliness of living alone will appear on the news, and the various difficulties before the death of the alone will definitely be there.Due to economic development and social trends, the single ratio of young people is still very high, and the increase in the situation where children and parents do not live together will also make the elderly living alone a serious social phenomenon.
The local population is dominated by Chinese descent. Affected by Eastern culture, both the government and the people attach importance to family concepts.It is still an important policy to encourage the elderly to live with their families through fiscal tilt.However, for the elderly who live alone without a family, they can only be solved through the age apartment, the elderly and private home, and the social assistance of social assistance.The first two are to concentrate the elderly to look at the passport, and the latter is based on the principle of mutual aid cooperation and cooperation to establish a self -help community of the elderly.
Therefore, various grass -roots organizations need to bear corresponding responsibilities, and the government can give certain funding to form a long -term mechanism of benign mutual assistance.For example, emergency contact hotline, video surveillance system, and regular visits, etc., can partially avoid the frequent tragedy of the elderly to death.The tragedy is not only the epitome of these elderly people's helpless late scenes, but also shows a lot of loopholes in Singapore's social security network.A person died alone, which is an extreme manifestation of many people's lonely life.Behind a lonely old man, there are more tragic stories that are not known.
In the end, even if Chinese people have not experienced aging or have no elderly in their homes, they should be psychologically prepared for the advent of aging society.The little girl went to the elderly center as a volunteer in the last school year.She is not to do a heavy physical work, or she can do a little effort for the elderly, and then accompany them to talk about it, but after returning home, I obviously feel that she has a more intuitive recognition of the growth and suffering of life.Know.This experience may also be what most people in our society should have.
The author is a literary and historical worker, religious researcher
