Literature Review on Elderly Charitable Donations

Various studies on "active aging" have conducted since 1999 when the World Health Organization had raised the slogan of active aging.Under the background of increasingly serious aging, promoting social participation of older persons is an effective way to implement "active aging" and to strengthen the social integration, at the same time ,it could also relieve stress that caused by aging problem to some extent.Elderly charitable donations as a form of the elderly to participate in social activity, not only reflect the "independence, participation, dignity, care and self-realization" principle but also promote the health of the elderly aging and active aging.Through reviewing the existing theories and study about the charitable donations, we can understand the current situation and the influence factors about it. THE CONCEPTIONForeign origin of the word "charity" can be traced back to ancient Greek mythology.In Greek mythology, charity was regarded as "love for humanity".To Roman period, Cicero's theory of charity advocating people generously, and think this behavior is "good for beneficiaries to the giver and without loss".In the middle ages, the church charity became the major form of charity.Along with the development of the Catholicism and Protestantism, the charity also further development.Until the This paper is the initial achievement of National Social Science Fund Project "Research on the rural empty nesters' satisfaction of life".