Research on the Path Optimization of Rural Mutual Aid Elderly Care Model in Ethnic Minority Areas of Yunnan Province under the Background of Rural Revitalization

Abstract

Taking the "1+1+N" mutual-aid pension model in Lushui, Nujiang of Yunnan Province as a case, this paper analyzes its practical logic featuring Party building leadership, neighborhood mutual assistance and diversified services. Relevant practices prove that the model effectively alleviates the elderly care shortage through external resource embedding, yet confronted with deep-seated dilemmas including interrupted endogenous motivation caused by over-reliance on external resources, disconnection between ethnic cultural inheritance and substantive elderly care, as well as imbalance between professional capacity empowerment and community self-governance. Accordingly, this study proposes targeted optimization strategies for structural adjustment and efficiency improvement: establishing a dual-operation mechanism led by Party building and governed by resident autonomy, developing a mixed financing mode combining public welfare points and ethnic handicraft workshops, and constructing a tiered elderly care training plus intelligent empowerment system. The above measures facilitate the transformation from administrative-driven governance to multi-stakeholder co-governance, and provide theoretical references for the sustainable development of mutual-aid pension in ethnic minority regions.