Exploring the "Time Bank" Mutual Support Model for the Elderly in Linyi City

Abstract

At present, China is facing increasingly severe pension problems, the weakening of the family pension function, the pension security system is not perfect, the number of elderly and incapacitated elderly people is rising year by year, to explore the diversified pension model is the new era of China's characteristics of the positive response to the aging of the population road requirements. Based on this, this paper focuses on the willingness of the rural elderly to participate in the "time bank" mutual care model, and analyses their willingness to participate and the factors affecting them through the research on the rural elderly in Linyi City, in order to provide policy suggestions for the improvement of China's pension service system. This paper uses a combination of qualitative and quantitative research methods, combined with the current situation of the elderly in Linyi City, and analyses the reliability, validity and descriptive statistics of the collected primary data, focusing on analysing the willingness of rural elderly to participate in the "time bank" mutual support for the elderly and the influencing factors, and finally this paper proposes a deepening of the "time bank" model of elderly care, based on the problems found in the study. Finally, based on the problems found in the study, this paper proposes to deepen the awareness of "Time Bank", strengthen the standardised training for the elderly who participate in "Time Bank", as well as to realise the combination of public welfare and incentive service willingness to enhance the idea of gradually improving the enthusiasm of the participation of the elderly in rural areas, and to promote the "Time Bank". the sustainability of the "time bank" model of mutual support for the elderly.