Analysis on Geriatric Social Work Service Absence in Civilian-run Retirement Organizations -Taking the Service Status of Civilian-run Retirement Organizations in Tianjing City as an Example

Abstract

With civilian-run retirement organizations becoming more and more important in solving the organization retirement of current urban aged population, the service quality of civilian-run retirement organizations also becomes people's focus of attention. This paper points out that problems of geriatric social work function absence universally exist in civilian-run retirement organization service. The civilian-run retirement organizations can't effectively provide service in aspects like old people's "admission evaluation" and "living quality intervention", nursing workers' "working pressure and negative emotion guidance". As a result, they are unable to offer personal, demanded and effective nursing, causing low satisfaction degree of old people's living quality and frequent loss of nursing workers. This paper holds that one reason for this universal problem of civilian-run retirement organizations is nursing worker shortage. Investors and managers temporarily regard body nursing effects as sole benefit pursuit. The second reason is that investors and managers both start from cost saving and cut down the cost of hiring professional social workers. The third reason is that managers' "illiterate" understanding of social working knowledge and idea causes the function absence of geriatric social work. The author thinks that the function absence of geriatric social work will become the critical factor of restricting the service quality promotion of civilian-run retirement organizations. Aging problem has become a hot topic discussed by people in current society. Aging of population in Tianjing City ranks the third among big cities in China, following Shanghai and Beijing. According to the sixth nationwide census data in 2010, the permanent residences in Tianjing City have reached 12938200. The total population of census register in Tianjing City is 9848500 with 1764000 aged people over 60 years old which takes up 17.91% of total population. Rapid increasing of aged population in Tianjing City has caused strong requirement for pension service. With the increasing of governmental input and constantly carrying out of old-benefited policies, the social force civilian-run retirement organization grows rapidly. After several years of development, there are more than 300 all kinds of retirement organizations in Tianjing City with 278 civilian-run retirement organizations until June 2013. Under the situation that beds in state-run retirement organizations are limited, the development of civilian-run retirement organizations relives government's pressure and solve problems for the common people.