Mobilizing community support for the aging
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IN Changzheng Town’s Nu’er Community, more than 60 percent of people are 60 years and older. Mobilizing seniors to help each other is vital to the community.
A total of 186 of these seniors are Party members, and so the Party organization mobilized members and other seniors to learn by themselves and serve themselves.
One of them is the community’s Party Secretary Mao Pingfen. While her husband was battling a fatal cancer, she got to know Wang Nanping, a cancer survivor.
Wang said that while fighting lung cancer, she witnessed the effect a strong support network can have on patients.
“Communication among cancer patients will increase confidence in beating cancer and helps relieve despair,” Wang said.
With the support of the Party, Wang set up a volunteer service team made up of cancer survivors who offer hospice care as well as basic health checks at the neighborhood committee activity room.
In a bulletin, good deeds by other residents are lauded — a neighbor who helped a weak senior lady with her housework, Party members and neighbors who carried groceries for seniors or simply checked on their well-being. Even free barber services are offered, the bulletin revealed.
Residents also pooled money to install an elevator at a building in the community that makes it easier for seniors to leave the house.
Residents submitted an applications to obtain approval for the elevator and hosted more than 30 meetings on constructing it, Mao said.
“This elevator has been serving as our model of residents’ self-governing,” said Mao.
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