Universities for the aged mainly teach health care, cooking and gardening, painting and calligraphy, and other courses suitable for the elderly.
The university for the aged is a classroom for the "empty nest" elderly to update their knowledge, a place for keeping fit and nourishing their hearts, a garden for fun and entertainment, a platform for making friends and a base for intellectual development.
the "empty nest" elderly are the elderly of a generation or living alone. With the rapid development of market economy, the obvious change of population structure, the miniaturization of family size and the change of values of the younger generation, the number of "empty nest" families in China has increased sharply.
According to the data, by 25, "empty nest" families had exceeded half of the elderly families. Most of the students in senior universities are "empty nesters" or quasi-seniors.
Universities for the aged are the product of the times to meet the needs of aging society, building a lifelong learning society and a harmonious society. With the improvement of living and medical conditions, the pace of aging in China has accelerated, and the population of China has entered the aging stage.
Facing the aging society, the Party, government and school leaders attach great importance to the work of the elderly. Comrade Hu Jintao once profoundly pointed out that respecting the elderly means respecting the laws of life and social development and history.
the party and the government have emphasized the improvement of the scientific and cultural quality of the whole nation for many years. The report of the 16th National Congress of the Communist Party of China regards "forming a learning society with all-people learning and lifelong learning, and promoting people's all-round development" as one of the goals of building a well-off society in an all-round way, and the elderly should continue to achieve the goal of all-round development.
University for the aged is an important means to achieve this goal and the most appropriate embodiment of "lifelong learning".
The university for the aged can play an active role in meeting the above five needs of the "empty nest" elderly, and it is a warm home for the "empty nest" elderly.
Reference: Baidu Encyclopedia-University for the Aged.