Modern Economics & Management Forum

This paper takes Gaozhen Community in Jinhua City, Zhejiang Province as an example with most priority, and the empty-nest elderly, community workers and the children of empty-nest elderly are interviewed in the community to expound the emotional needs of the empty-nest elderly in the city through field research and reference to relevant literature. At the same time, the reasons why these emotional needs of the elderly fail to be satisfied fail to be analyzed in this paper according to the interview discussion and literature review from the perspectives of personal cognition, family, society and government. Finally, some recommendations were put forwarded by governments in promoting emotional intervention among empty-nest elderly after we have understood that these empty nest elderly are demonstrated with emotional absence based on the characteristics of the community endowment under the new situation and feature of endowment of empty-nest elderly with the analysis of the problems of Jin Huagao community and on the basis of the spirit endowment patterns of elderly in the western developed countries.