"Law on the Protection of Rights and Interests of the Elderly", what is the significance of amending this law?

The revision of the Law on the Protection of the Rights and Interests of the Elderly has further improved the legal system for elder care. It is a new milestone in the history of the development of the cause of aging in our country. It is also important for carrying forward the Chinese nation’s virtues of respecting, caring for, and helping the elderly and strengthening the whole society. The awareness of responsibility, improving various conditions for safeguarding the rights and interests of the elderly, and realizing that the elderly are provided with care, medical care, employment, education, and enjoyment will surely have a huge promotion and guarantee effect.

With the acceleration of the aging process of society, the protection of the rights and interests of the elderly has become the focus of social attention. The Altay region attaches great importance to the implementation of the "Law on the Protection of Rights and Interests of the Elderly" and has established a comprehensive leadership mechanism with government leadership, coordination of elderly work agencies, cooperation from relevant departments, and extensive participation from all walks of life.

1. Basic situation

The Altay region governs six counties and one city, 38 townships, 17 towns, 3 sub-district offices, and 3 state-owned farms and ranches. Within the territory are the 10th Agricultural Division of the Corps and its 10 regiments, the autonomous region's units and troops stationed in Afghanistan. According to statistics on aging services in 2015, the region's total population at the end of the year was 668,000 (including the Corps), of which 74,200 were aged over 60, accounting for 11.11% of the total population. The total population of the county (city) is 607,000, including 64,600 people over 60 years old, accounting for 10.64% of the total population; 43,500 people over 65 years old, accounting for 67.34% of the elderly population; and 5,632 people over 80 years old. ; 26 people are over 100 years old.

According to the prevailing international standards (the proportion of the population over 60 years old in a country or region exceeds 10% or the population over 65 years old accounts for 7% of the total population), the Altay region has entered an aging society.

The growth rate of the elderly population in the region is higher than that of the total population. The population is aging at a faster pace. Empty-nest elderly people, "four elders" and retired people are increasing year by year.

2. Main practices and results in implementing “one law, one regulation”

In recent years, prefectural committees and administrative offices have attached great importance to the study and publicity of “one law, one regulation” and actively The organization and implementation have achieved certain results in safeguarding the rights and interests of the elderly in accordance with the law, and promoted the development of the cause of aging in the entire region.

1. The party committee and government attach great importance to it, and the regional aging work is showing a good development trend. Prefectural committees and administrative offices attach great importance to aging work and regard it as an important part of solving people's livelihood problems. Based on the actual situation of the region, they have strengthened investigation and research, and have successively issued a series of policies and measures to protect the rights and interests of the elderly. They have successively formulated the "Twelfth Five-Year Plan" for regional aging undertakings. "Development Plan and "Implementation Opinions on Further Accelerating the Construction of Social Elderly Care Service System" have promoted the development of regional aging undertakings. The role of the regional working committee on aging has been fully brought into play. After continuous adjustment and enrichment, the number of member units has increased from the initial 23 to the current 34, basically covering all regional aging-related departments.

In 2015, based on the needs of the aging work situation, the "Implementation Opinions on Further Strengthening Grassroots Aging Work" was formulated, and the "Work Responsibilities of Member Units of the Altay Region Aging Work Committee" was revised to further clarify the work responsibilities of each unit. The work tasks of the member units have gradually formed a work pattern for the elderly with strong horizontal cooperation and coordination and timely vertical guidance. Focusing on the construction of a four-level aging work network system at the prefecture, county, township, and village (neighborhood) committees, a comprehensive review of the aging organizations in the region will focus on solving problems such as imperfect aging organizations, weak role, weakness and disorganization.

Actively find ways to gradually implement the benefits of elderly cadres at the grassroots level and mobilize their enthusiasm for work. At present, there are 8 county-level institutions for the elderly in the region, 58 towns and streets, 54 towns and streets that have established aging committees, accounting for 93.1%; 557 villages and neighborhood committees, and 557 villages and neighborhood committees have established leading groups for aging work. There are 362 neighborhood committees, accounting for 65%; there are 366 elderly associations, 74 more than the previous year, with 12,200 members. A four-level aging work organization network has basically been formed at the prefecture, county, township, and village (residential) level, and the comprehensive coordination function has been performed better.

Second, the policy provisions are implemented and the social security system for the elderly is basically established. Focusing on providing elderly care and medical care, we will gradually establish a pension security mechanism that adapts to the requirements of the socialist market economic system to ensure the basic needs of the elderly in terms of life and medical care.

After years of exploration, a relatively complete pension insurance system has been established with basic pension insurance, basic medical insurance, social relief, social welfare and social mutual assistance as the main content.

The coverage rate of basic pension insurance for urban enterprise employees in the region has reached 100%, and the participation rate of new pension insurance has reached more than 80%. The "Fifth Seventh Plan" basic pension for urban workers over 60 years old has been implemented. Incorporate the elderly whose actual income is lower than the regional minimum living security line into the scope of minimum living security, fully implement the medical security policy for retirees, rural elderly relief and assistance and other systems. Medical assistance policies and measures across the region are in place, and the amount of assistance is substantial. Improvement has effectively solved the problem of difficulty in seeing a doctor and seeking medical treatment for the elderly.

The system of living allowances and free physical examinations for the elderly over 80 years old has been improved, so that elderly people of all ethnic groups can generally benefit and receive benefits. County (city) party committees and governments also attach great importance to aging work. Jimunai County allocates funds from the county finance department to visit veteran cadres, poor elderly people and the "four elderly people". Qinghe County has issued regulations on the payment of "elderly pension". Seniors aged 75 or over can receive a basic living allowance of 50 yuan per month, which is 5 years lower than the regulations in the autonomous region. Fuyun County once again increased the living allowance for centenarians in 2015, from 300 yuan per person per month to 500 yuan per person per month, and incorporated the subsidy into the fiscal budget, effectively benefiting the elderly.

The third is to increase financial investment and accelerate the construction of elderly care infrastructure and services for the elderly. With the government as the leader, families as the mainstay, and society as the supplement, a new elderly care service system has been initially established with "home care as the basis, community services as the support, and institutional care as the supplement." The region specially issued the "Implementation Opinions on Further Accelerating the Construction of the Social Elderly Care Service System" to promote the construction of elderly care service facilities, explore the establishment of a long-term care security system for the elderly, and improve the policy and service network for integrating medical care and elderly care.

Support counties and cities to establish and improve systems for government purchase of elderly care services, subsidies for the elderly and disabled elderly people, and liability insurance for elderly care institutions. While continuously consolidating the basic position of family care for the elderly, we will strengthen the construction of high-level community elderly services

At present, a total of 32,313 elderly people in the region have signed "Family Support Agreements" with their children; "Love and Helping the Elderly" activities are widely carried out at the village level, and various forms of assistance mechanisms including spiritual comfort have been established; communities have established "Elderly care day care stations" for the elderly have gradually standardized family care for the elderly. On the basis of the original urban nursing homes, social welfare homes and other elderly care institutions, Fuhai County has established service institutions such as the Silver Age Home Care Day Care Center and the Beilei Social Work Service Station in the Huancheng West Road Community in Fuhai Town to form a team of volunteers to help the elderly. Actively develop home-based elderly care. At the same time, we will explore the establishment of a rural “mutual assistance and elderly care” model.

Adopt the method of "appropriate subsidies from the county finance, the village collective provides idle facilities and bears daily expenses such as water, electricity, and heating, and the children bear the expenses of clothing, food, medical care, etc." and in accordance with the principle of applying for occupancy, the Elderly people over 60 years old and living alone in the pilot villages who are able to take care of themselves are centralized in "Xingfuyuan" for their care. This model not only effectively solves the problem of no one to take care of the elderly living alone, but also conforms to the characteristics of traditional home care and is very popular among the elderly and their children. Since 2013, Fuhai County has established rural mutual aid happiness homes in 14 villages in 3 townships and 2 towns under its jurisdiction, with a total investment of 1.4 million yuan, of which 9 village happiness homes have been put into use.

Habahe County actively carries out the expansion of home-based elderly care social services, establishes a door-to-door service system for community elderly care service agencies, and designs service cases according to the different needs of each elderly person. The service agency provides door-to-door service for the elderly. Service and configuration combination service package, 21 caregivers adopt the government-purchased service method to provide free 1-2 hours of nursing services per day to the elderly in need and lonely elderly people in the community, which is welcomed by the elderly. ?

Fourth is to strengthen judicial protection and legal services, and the legitimate rights and interests of the elderly have been effectively safeguarded. We must persist in acting in accordance with the law and strengthen the institutionalization, standardization and standardization of aging work.

Conscientiously implement the "Law of the People's Republic of China on the Protection of the Rights and Interests of the Elderly" and the "Regulations of the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region on the Protection of the Legitimate Rights and Interests of the Elderly", carry out in-depth legal publicity and education activities, and carry out in-depth legal publicity and education activities by hanging banners and setting up propaganda We will continue to improve the general public's concept of the rule of law and create a strong atmosphere for rule of law publicity by answering people's inquiries on-site and distributing promotional materials. Integrate legal service resources, improve rights protection networks, expand legal aid channels, give full play to the role of grassroots legal service workers and legal service sites, and provide legal services to the elderly locally and nearby.

Currently, prefectural and county offices for the elderly have established rights protection workstations for the elderly, and legal aid workstations have been set up in 60 judicial offices in various townships (towns, streets), basically forming a horizontal to edge and vertical to the bottom The basic framework of the "three-level network system" for legal aid work has laid a solid organizational guarantee for the effective development of legal aid work for the elderly. Regional judicial departments have taken the initiative to carry out legal aid and legal consultation activities, and provide door-to-door services for elderly people with limited mobility who meet the conditions for assistance; both local and county courts have established "elderly courts" to "prioritize case filing and trial" for the elderly. The four-priority system of "first priority for execution, priority for return visits" has effectively safeguarded the legitimate rights and interests of the elderly.

Actively implement the "Opinions on Further Strengthening Preferential Treatment for the Elderly" from 24 departments including the National Office on Aging and strengthen preferential treatment for the elderly. Strengthen the work of reporting letters and visits from the elderly, handle letters and visits from the elderly in a timely manner, and coordinate with relevant departments to accept cases that infringe on the legitimate rights and interests of the elderly.

5. The core values ??of socialism are practiced, and the propaganda atmosphere of respecting the elderly is becoming increasingly strong. In accordance with the cultivation and practice of socialist core values, we will further strengthen the promotion of aging and strengthen the construction of a new filial piety culture. Give full play to the role of mainstream media, vigorously publicize the advanced personal deeds of "stars of filial piety and respect for the elderly" who have emerged in various counties and cities in the region in recent years, shoot promotional videos on aging work, and create a social atmosphere of respecting, loving, respecting and helping the elderly.

Three sessions of the "Respecting the Elderly Civilization Number" creation activity were launched, cultivating, selecting and establishing a number of units that respect and care for the elderly, expanding the social influence of the "Respecting the Elderly Civilization Number". Increase the publicity of the newly promulgated "Law on the Protection of Rights and Interests of the Elderly" and other laws and regulations, and create awareness in the whole society of respecting the elderly and safeguarding the legitimate rights and interests of the elderly in accordance with the law. Micro-movies, text messages, and WeChat platforms were used to distribute publicity information on respecting the elderly, promote the model of "filial piety and respect for the elderly", and distribute proposals for filial piety and respect for the elderly, which increased the enthusiasm of all sectors of society to care for the elderly. Habahe County actively carried out the "Double Hundred" selection activity for 100 filial sons and filial wives, creating a good atmosphere of respecting and caring for the elderly throughout the county.

Sixth, it is to develop education, culture and sports for the elderly, and continuously enrich the spiritual and cultural life of the elderly. Taking the development of education for the elderly and scientific and healthy cultural and sports activities as the starting point, we have established universities for the elderly at the local and county (city) levels and schools for the elderly in villages (communities). We often organize and carry out scientific, healthy and diverse cultural and sports activities for the elderly. We have successively held The two "Summer of Jinshan" Senior Citizens' Culture and Art Festival and the first Senior Citizens' Fitness Conference have enriched the spiritual and cultural life of the elderly.

At present, there are more than 30 cultural and sports organizations of various types in the region, and more than 7,000 elderly people participate in various activities. An important stage for people to show their spiritual outlook. The culture and sports department has focused on strengthening the construction of elderly activity facilities, improving the network of senior sports associations, and extensively carrying out sports and fitness activities suitable for the characteristics of the elderly, so that more than 70% of the elderly regularly participate in sports and fitness activities, effectively enriching the spiritual and cultural life of the elderly play an exemplary role in this regard.

Further strengthen the construction of grassroots elderly associations, actively leverage the advantages and specialties of the elderly, encourage and support the elderly to participate in economic and social development, engage in caring for and educating the next generation, impart scientific and cultural knowledge, provide consulting services, and participate in society Activities such as public welfare undertakings and community building create a social environment in which “the elderly are productive”.