2. Purpose:
Improve the understanding of the regularity of running universities for the elderly. Universities for the aged should make full use of various conditions. Help old friends to "increase their knowledge, enrich their lives, cultivate their sentiments and promote their health", so that the old people in Tsinghua can learn something and enjoy it. To run a university for the aged, teaching and management should follow the same educational rules.
The emergence and rapid growth of empty nesters have aroused great concern from all sectors of society. Meeting the needs of the "empty nest" elderly has now become an important research topic. To meet the above five needs of the "empty nest" elderly, the university for the aged can play an active role. It is a warm home for the "empty nest" elderly.
3. Social significance: With the increase of the elderly population in China, universities for the elderly rose in many places in China in 1980s. 1973, the world's first university for the aged was established in France. The university for the aged has a very flexible way of running a school, which includes centralized teaching in a fixed place and remote teaching. The teaching content of the university for the aged is very rich, mainly including health preservation, cooking, art and so on.
Extended data:
In September of 20 13, "Several Opinions of the State Council on Accelerating the Development of the Aged Care Service Industry" (Guo Fa [2065438+03] No.35) clearly put forward that "support institutions of higher learning and secondary vocational schools to set up majors and courses related to aged care services, expand the scale of personnel training" and "give full play to the role of open universities and carry out continuing education and distance education".
20 13 1 1, the National Open University established a leading group for the promotion of education for the elderly. Yang Zhijian, the headmaster, is the group leader.
On March 20 14, the National Open University issued the Opinions of the National Open University on Promoting Education for the Aged.
2065438+In April 2004, the President's Office of the National Open University deliberated and passed the National Open University for the Elderly Construction Plan. The plan proposes to set up related majors for employees of aged care services, carry out training programs for aged care education and aged care services, build an information platform and digital learning courses, build a new school-running system, and promote the construction of demonstration bases.
The National Open University held a deliberation meeting on specialty construction, which deliberated and adopted the professional training programs of service and management for the elderly and social work for the elderly.
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