Abstract：Nowadays, the senior age population constitutes an important client group using personal social services worldwide. China has witnessed an accelerating aging process among its population, and more and more scholars have begun to pay attention to how to improve the happiness and health of the elderly from linguistic perspective. Language welfare, as an emerging hot topic in the field of social care for the elderly, is a mechanism in which the state or institutional organization provides language products and services for specific groups, or pays for such services, in full or partial amount. The language welfare for the elderly is an important part of such mechanism. The language welfare system for the elderly can be approached in rather multiple forms, ranging from language learning, language assistance, language therapy, to language care. The development of language welfare initiatives for the elderly has both social and economic benefits, and it helps improve the quality of life of the elderly. Based on an investigation of literature on how age affects old adults’ language use, this paper argues that, to build a language welfare system for the elderly, it is necessary to carry out work from the following five aspects, namely, multiple stakeholders’ involvement, legislative guarantee, capital investment, technical support, and personnel training, to ensure the implementation of various forms of language welfare for the elderly, so as to contribute to the construction of the “Healthy China” project.
滕延江. 论老年语言福利体系的构建[J]. 语言战略研究, 2022, 7(3): 78-87.
Teng Yanjiang. On the Construction of the Language Welfare System for the Elderly. , 2022, 7(3): 78-87.
