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| ANALYSIS ON RESIDENTIAL DIFFERENCE AND RESIDENTIAL REQUIREMENTOF THE FAMILY WITH THE AGED IN SHANGHAI |
| CHU Jin-feng, TANG Yan, WANG Wen-hua |
| Department of Geography, Shanghai Teacher's University, Shanghai 200234, China |
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Abstract Shanghai is the first city that enters into aging society in China.By the end of 1999, the elderly population aged over 60 years (including 60)is 2.38 million, which is 18.2%of general population, and aged over 65 years is 1.81 million, 13.8% of the total.According to the situation of economy development and it sprospect, traditional ethic, obligation of young generation for old-age dependency, family-caring mode is and will be the most important elder-caring system in Shanghai.Putting family in the core position for the elderly person, family-caring mode in this paper means community service is necessary for supplement and welfare institute for assurance.This thee parts consist of a caring system for the elderly people.Under family-caring mode, the elderly person spends most of the time in the house.Obviously, the elderly person becomes far more dependent on his residential house than other people in different age-phrase does.That means residential condition is much more important for the elderly person.This paper discusses some problems on elder-caring system in all the kinds of family with the aged.
Based on the survey of sampling in Shanghai, the author differentiated three residential types according to the spatial distance of dwelling house between the aged and his offspring, analyzed residential difference of family with the aged on residential location, residential environment, neighborhood service for the aging, and explained their residential requirement.
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Received: 05 August 2001
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2003, Vol. 18 
