Study About The Elderly Social Work Of The Welfare Agencies

The aging social work is one of the important areas of social work, plus part ofthe population as the baby boomers, a generation of people from middle age into oldage, a sharp increase in the scale of this cohort’s experience in promoting the rapidsocial changes, and advance social work profession to develop new innovativepractical method. Welfare agencies is not the main one in many aging society in theworkplace, but the elderly social work in welfare agencies to carry out the difficultyof no less than other places in the aging society. Many problems worthy of study inthe elderly welfare organizations social work, such as disease prevention andtreatment of the elderly, widows and orphans, people with disabilities and homelesselderly social care, psychological and social adjustment problems of the elderly.In this paper, the actual situation of the Changchun City Social Welfarebackground, their social service programs designed for old people. First, accordingto the individual circumstances of the learned that the orphanage and elderly,integrated hospital and community resources to establish effective resource supportsystem for the elderly. Second, the respects of its activities, the elderly are dividedinto a number of interest groups, social workers and volunteers in the form ofcooperation to arrange activities for the elderly. Third, care for the elderly widowedcase counseling to be with the elderly in general area with individual special needsof the elderly to provide targeted case services. Finally, due to the lack ofprofessional social workers in welfare institutions, many services have to rely on thehelp of volunteers to carry out service plans also include the training of volunteersinvolved in the development of volunteers and volunteer charter. In short, the issueis the exploration and welfare institutions pension model innovation.For old age social work for the welfare agencies, social workers in addition tothe implementation of the assessment to determine what services may be the elderlyto help, you can also play an important role, namely to act as service manager’s role, it is proposed to apply for those services from the agencies, and the coordination ofservices. In addition to welfare agencies, in addition to carrying out caseworkcounseling for the elderly, group work and community work, social workers can alsoimplement other methods and models. Meanwhile, the object of social workers is notlimited to the elderly in welfare institutions may encounter the plight of welfareinstitutions staff, volunteers and volunteers, it may be a link unit or individual andinstitutional.In Welfare institutions, the elderly social worker is not a spectator role,social workers should be the partners of other professionals in the organization,plays the role of cooperation and division of labor. In other words, the older socialworkers not to suppress the living space of other professional, but bettercoordination of the advantages of professional and common services for the elderly.As we all know, the development of social work in China is from top to bottom, thefuture of social work without government support and guide the development ofsocial workers to arouse the attention of the relevant departments. China is about toenter an aging society, and improve the old social work system without delay, thegovernment should increase input in the elderly social work, to encourage moreprofessionals to join the ranks of the elderly social worker, elderly social worker payand benefits, provide job training and opportunities for exchanging experience, tobuild the old age social work career a better tomorrow.In this paper, a simple exploration of applications on the elderly social work inthe older institutions want to be able to help more welfare agency practitioners tounderstand the charm of social work, and jointly promote the development of theelderly in social work.