With the rapid speed of aging, the elderly people draw widespread attention in China. There are increasing empty-nest elderly people whose children are far away from them, which is becoming a common issue in China.
Mrs. An, an elderly woman in Beijing, is 77-year-old. She has three sons, but none of her three sons live with her. Two of his sons often stay in foreign countries.
Although her family don't see her very often, she loves her family. She supposes there are more and more elderly people don't live with their children and young people have their own family life and she doesn't want to bother them. Besides, she pasted the world map and the Chinese map on the wall because her sons often go to different places and she can know where her sons are.
Although all my children not live with me, they treat me very well. I live in the house that belongs to my little son and he sometimes buys some food and deliver to me because my feet are not good." Mrs. Zhao said.
She is poor in health, so she concerned more about health. She has many diseases including diabetes, Thrombosis etc. Every day she watches TV about regimen and she takes many notes. Sometimes she went out to listen regimen speech. However, some criminals who make use of her diseases swindle her out of more than 20,000 yuan. It is a big problem because many swindlers target ill elders in Beijing.
Besides, none of her children live with her, so she need to take care of herself. However, she thinks no one could help her to find a doctor when the disease caught her. She hopes the Community Health Service could provide service, so she can get help at the first moment.
The aging problem in China is becoming visible and the number of the empty-nest elderly people is rising. According to National Health and Family Planning Commission, half of the old people in China are empty-nest elderly people.
Among all the old people, the number of elderly people who live alone take up 10% and the number of elderly people living in couples account 41.9% in 2015.
The empty-nest elderly people have highly dependence of social service, so the improvement of social service will make elders' life better. Although they love their children and don’t want to bother them, they miss their children.Both society and children need to care more about elderly people.
