关键词: 自助—互助, 互助型社会养老, 老年人力资源

Abstract: The purpose of rural mutual-aid social care is to provide mutual-aid in the daily life of eld- erly with the notion‘Helping Others Is Helping Self'. It mobilizes older people's human resource as the main service force to provide a new type of social support for the elderly. It can solve the problems of the weakened traditional family care in Chinese rural area and the increasing number of elderly left un- attended，and coordinate China's rural local situation and its modern transformation. It can be upgraded and developed during the construction process of rural area with Chinese characteristics. In recent years，many rural areas began to develop mutual-aid social care，and obtained repeatable successful experience. Chinese rural mutual-aid social care should take low-standard，wide-coverage，and sus- tainability as the goal，use“Helping Others Is Helping Self”concept as action core，and more effective- ly utilize the human resources of rural elderly. In the context of the wide differences lying between devel- oped and underdeveloped rural areas，this may be the best way to resolve the conflict of the rapid growth of elderly population and the limitation of elderly service.

Keywords: Helping Others Is Helping Self, Mutual-Aid Social Care, Elderly Human Resources