When you think of growing old you think of spending time with family and friends, traveling and feeling financially secure to be able to retire. Unfortunately in today’s society the elderly is beginning to wonder if they will be able to retire, if social security will be available to them, if their families will be able to care for them or will some of them be forced to live in a retirement home. These hopes and fears are realized to all elderly people, weather they live in the United States or in other countries.
In the past, China has been focused on keeping their population under control and not focusing on their aging population. During the baby boom of the 1950’s, China made it so couples could only have one child per family to control the countries population growth, which in fact is coming back to hurt them now. With so many elders retiring and drawing social security, there are not enough workers paying into the social security system to keep up with the demand.
China has the largest population on elderly in the world with 120 million elders in their society and by 2050 China will have to deal with how they will be able to support over 400 million people over the age of 60. Traditionally in China, it is the oldest son’s responsibility to take care of the parents. The parents will live with the oldest son who provides them with everything they need finically and the other children are their to offer emotional support for the parents, but over the decades these roles have changed. Do to the fact that couples can only have one child per family and it is better to have a son to take care of you, couples give their daughters up for adoption in order to be able to keep their sons. This causes a problem because as of the twenty-first century there are more single middle-aged sons who are having to support their parents finically and emotionally all by themselves.
The Essay on China Chinese Families Population
China For Chinese people what is the advantage of having many children? They provide many hands to work and ensure that the land will be worked when the parents are old. In the early seventies the population of China was a little under a billion. That is why in 1972 the Chinese government decided to implant the 'wan xi sha o'family planning program. This program allowed families to have no more ...
China has only a little over 136,000 community centers for the elderly to live in. The best way to handle this situation is for a family based support system and community services.
In Russia, the elderly population has gone up twenty-five percent in the last fifteen years, which is causing severe problems for the already cash-strapped health system. For elders over seventy years of age the average cost of health care is more than two and a half times that of a person in their fifties. As the population of elderly citizens grows, the demand for elderly care services will increase by one hundred and thirty percent by 2020. One way that this issue can be addressed is by creating specialized geriatric wards within existing hospitals to treat such health problems as heart disease, hypertension and respiratory problems which is hard to do for Russia because of their declining economy.
An interesting fact about Russia is that most of their people don’t live to see their seventies. In the 1930’s most men and women only lived into their late forties or early fifties. 1965 seemed to be the peak of men and women living the longest in Russia. Russian males were living to see sixty or maybe even sixty five and Russian women were living even longer, until they were into their early seventies. In 2000, a Russian males life expectancy was around the age or fifty-five and the Russian woman lived to be about seventy five.
The Term Paper on History Of China-Russia Energy Deals
Now I would like to explain you something about the history of energy deals between Russia and China. Despite frequent declaration of goodwill and bilateral energy cooperation the Russian- Chinese energy relations since 1991 have been limited by mutual suspicion, pricing concerns, inadequate transportation infrastructure, and competition for influence in Eurasia. The official relationship between ...
Since their has been such a rapid decline in Russians fertility in the past decades, their has been a booming growth of elderly in their country, one in every three persons is between the age of sixty-five to seventy.
A survey was given in Australia, New Zealand, the UK and the U.S. to see if the elderly was satisfied with the quality, affordability, and availability of health services was in their nation in 1999 and the response was that they were all generally satisfied. This survey does not show all sides of the issue though. In all of these nations fewer than one-quarter of the elderly said that medical care has improved within the last five years. With the boom of elderly in the world now, there needs to be great changes done to secure social security and health care for the elderly.
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