Participatory Action Research on Constructing Rural Elderly Activity Center——Taking Transformation of Traditional Old House in W Village of Anqing City as an Example
With the acceleration of aging process in China,common problems in service content,operation team and financial security of rural elderly facilities in China are exposed.This paper takes the construction of elderly activity center in W Village of Anqing City of Anhui Province as an example,and it develops participatory action research in stages of problem diagnosis and scheme design;and on that basis,it puts forward the construction scheme that takes life service,medical care and spiritual consolation as the service content,and takes woman group,descendants of old house and rural capable person as the operation team,it points out that participatory action research is the effective path for producing and implementing that method,and it is also the feasible method for breaking through the development dilemma of rural elderly facilities.