Why do young people live in nursing homes?

Recently, Binjiang Lvkang Sunshine Home, a pension institution in Hangzhou, has 14 young "residents". On the surface, as a "resident", you can live in a 30-square-meter "standard room" when you pay 300 yuan every month; But in fact, they have another identity-as volunteers recruited by nursing homes, they have to complete 20 hours of volunteer service for the elderly every month.

Old people living in nursing homes, accompanied by a group of old friends, are definitely more lively than at home, because young people in most families in modern society are busy with work and study and often are not at home during the day. However, nursing homes also have problems with nursing homes. For example, if the elderly want to learn to play high-tech novelty, it is not easy to find a teacher. After all, the nursing home has limited staff, so I'm afraid I'm busy with my work most of the time and have little time to chat and play with the elderly.

Recruiting some young residents in nursing homes will bring more vitality and happiness. Young people chat with the elderly and teach them to play WeChat and smart phones, so that the elderly will not be out of touch with society and the times. Moreover, according to relevant reports, the old-age care institutions in Hangzhou, which are currently implementing this measure, are very serious about the choice of young residents. Some of them often know calligraphy and painting and can be teachers for interested elderly people. Of course, the proportion control and management of young households should also be kept up, otherwise it will be difficult to ensure that young people who like to stay up late and old people who go to bed early and get up early will not affect each other because of the "time difference".

At the same time, as long as young people complete 20 hours of volunteer service for the elderly every month, they can only pay the rent in 300 yuan every month, which greatly relieves the pressure brought by the rent to young people. It is reported that in the same location in Binjiang District of Hangzhou, the rental price is around 2,000 yuan, and the difference is not small.

Caring for the elderly means caring for the future. It has been reported that in some foreign countries, voluntary service can be "pre-stored", that is, it can provide voluntary service for the elderly when they are young, and they can enjoy other people's services for free when they are old. In April this year, Wuhan Evening News reported that Wuchang has also begun to establish a "time bank" model-young or healthy middle-aged and elderly volunteers deposit their volunteer service time in their respective accounts, and when they need services or help when they are old, they can extract the accumulated volunteer service time from the accounts and convert it into corresponding services to realize mutual assistance for the elderly. In addition, the points of volunteer service can be directly converted into daily necessities. It is obviously a good idea to provide voluntary services for the elderly in exchange for low-rent housing, or to "pre-store" it and "extract" it when they are old, so it may be popularized.

However, when it comes to the problem of young people staying in nursing homes, we have to mention a practical difficulty in promotion. Taking Hangzhou as an example, the data released at the beginning of 20 17 showed that every 100 registered elderly people had 4.24 beds for the aged. Previously, Zhejiang Daily reported that some nursing homes were "hard to find a bed", and the vacancy rate of some nursing homes remained high.

Not only in Hangzhou, but also in urban public nursing homes, it is actually a common situation in the country. Under such circumstances, even if young volunteers are given several beds, I am afraid it is not easy. On the contrary, some newly-built private pension institutions in the suburbs have a high vacancy rate, because the elderly think that they are too far from home, big hospitals, shopping places, inconvenient transportation, or high fees. Take Hangzhou Binjiang Lvkang Sunshine Home in the news as an example. This is a large-scale public and private project. According to relevant reports, the hardware is really good, but if you take the bus, it takes more than an hour and a half to drive from the city center to the West Lake Scenic Area.

In other words, it is certainly good for volunteers to live in nursing homes with the elderly, but it is easy to think of the "old problem" of the number of beds. Obviously, in the face of an aging society, cities need more "small but tiny" old-age care institutions and constantly increase beds; Private pension institutions in the suburbs need to consider more supporting facilities and management services, such as opening shuttle buses and building supporting hospitals and supermarkets.