Research on the Adaptability of Rural Elderly People Moving to Urban Communities

Zhang Zhonglei(College of Humanities & Sciences of Northeast Normal University)
Jin Yu(School of Law of Changchun University of Science and Technology)

Abstract

In recent years, under the background that the country actively promotes population urbanization, a large number of young people migrate to cities and towns through employment or schooling and take root in the urban construction. However, the left-behind elderly people in rural areas are in a dilemma, and they will face many problems in their lives whether living in cities or staying behind, the quality of life is lowered generally. After going into the city, many elderly people in rural areas, due to their own physiological and psychological characteristics, do not adapt to living in urban areas, and the qualities of lives are not improved. By investigating the status quo of the elderly in rural areas migrating to urban areas, this paper analyses the reasons for and existing problems of migrating to urban areas and puts forward suggestions for improving community adaptability from the perspective of social work.

Keywords

The transmigrant elderly; Community adaptation; Social work

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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.26549/jetm.v1i1.587