内容简介：
伴随着我国人口老龄化的迅速发展，老年群体日益受到各方关注。近几十年来，在急剧的变迁社会大背景下，老年人因自身积累不足，生理功能逐渐衰退，抵御生活风险能力较差，更易陷入贫困状态，因而被公认为是弱势群体。对此，国内外学者围绕老年贫困问题做了一定的研究，有了一些重要的研究发现和结果，如老年贫困的影响因素，贫困老年人的生活状态和缓解老年贫困的策略等。但这些研究大多是对老年贫困问题的现实关照，缺乏对老年贫困“过程”意义上的深入研究。从生命历程角度看，老年期的生活状态具有历史延续性。老年贫困的发生不仅与老年期有关，更与老年期之前的生命阶段一脉相连。因此，本文从生命历程理论视角出发，对我国城市老年贫困问题进行过程性的深入研究。本文运用质性研究方法深度描述，揭示过程和归纳分析的优势，选取北京城市贫困老年人作为个案，全面揭示贫困老年人的生活现状，并以此为基础，通过个案的叙事回溯，探究形成当前老年贫困的生命路径并加以归纳，最终根据归纳出的老年贫困历程，结合贫困老年人个体的差异性，给予针对性的提高其晚年生活质量的建议。本研究的意义在于对我国城市老年贫困问题给予新的理论关注视角，生命历程理论的运用会使我国城市老年贫困问题的研究进一步发展和深入。在拓展理论应用的同时更加关注研究的实际意义，使老年贫困的预防，老年福利政策和服务的实施和改善更具效果和可行性。
Along with the rapid spread of aging of the population in China, the elderly has become the focus of the public policy. In the context of rapidly social changing in recent decades, because of lacking economic accumulation, declining physiological functions, and lacking of ability to against life risks, the elderly has been recognized as vulnerable to fall into poverty. Regarding these, some researches on elderly poverty have been done by domestic and foreign scholars. There are some important research findings and results have been showed to us, such as impact factors of poverty in old age, living conditions of poor elderly, and strategies for alleviating old age poverty etc. But most of these achievements related to the real status of poor old people, while few revealed the “process” of elderly poverty. The life status of the elderly has a historical continuity. The poverty in old age is not only related to the period of old, but also closely relevant to early life course. Therefore, this study did more deeply processing research in poverty in old age of urban China from life course perspective. By using qualitative research method, which has the advantage of deep description and comprehensive analysis, and choosing cases of poor old people in Beijing city, this study reveals the real life status about research objects. From this foundation, and base on the case’s narrative, the study further explores and sums up the life path forming the current poor life status of the old age. Finally, this paper gives some recommendations, which based on the previous study work and heterogeneity of the studied cases, to improve the quality of their later life. The significance of this study consists in taking new theoretical perspective into research about poverty in old age in urban China. In addition to these, the practical significance is also very important for this study. The recommendations are more effective and feasible to prevent poverty in old age and to meliorate the old age welfare policies and services.
