A Discussion on the Role of Government in Building an Age-friendly Society

Abstract

China is in a phase of rapid ageing, which is an important trend in social development and an important reflection of the progress of human civilization. Based on this social situation, the National Committee on Ageing has carried out pilot work on age-friendly cities across the country, promoting the development of cities into age-friendly ones. Whether the demands of the elderly are met is an issue that the whole society needs to face. How to build and construct an age-friendly society has become a new focus of the government's work. This paper analyses the current situation and problems of an age-friendly society in China, proposes ways to solve the problems and provides references and suggestions for the government to promote the building of an age-friendly society. The government's macro-governance ability is an important factor affecting the country's governance ability, and the government has played an important role and assumed an important responsibility in the historical changes. In the face of the basic national condition of ageing, government departments should promote the building of an age-friendly society, play the function of a service-oriented government, accelerate the transformation of the social environment into an age-friendly society, and explore a path of an age-friendly society with Chinese characteristics, which will help to improve the sense of access and happiness of the elderly and cope with the new social form.