Research On The Influence Of Social Support On Depression In The Elderly

With the deepening of the aging,the number of the elderly in our country is increasing rapidly,and there are many problems such as the proportion of the elderly population,the speed of the aging,the old before the rich and so on.Under the goal of healthy aging,people pay more attention to the mental health of the elderly gradually.The aging of the elderly brings about the dual pressure of physiology and psychology,and the social role has changed greatly,which makes them prone to depression and other psychological problems.As an important indicator to measure mental health,depression has a great impact on the physical and mental development of the elderly and the improvement of their quality of life.How to prevent and relieve depression in the elderly and promote their physical and mental health development has become an urgent problem to be solved.Social support plays an important role in the daily life of the elderly,which provides a new direction for the study of depression in the elderly.As a new paradigm of social work research,social support theory holds that the individual social support network is a concentric pattern composed of community,organization and national support network with family support network as the core,which provides a new direction for the study of elderly depression.Based on this background,this paper using China Family Panel Studies Data in 2016,select the elderly aged 60 and above,using the method of descriptive statistics and OLS regression of family,community,government and society,such as different levels of social support to study the effect of geriatric depression,and analyze whether there is an urban-rural difference.From the perspective of control variables,female elderly,illiterate or semi-illiterate,without spouses,chronic diseases,poor self-rated health,and low rural net income per capita have higher levels of depression.The research conclusions include:First,the effect of family support on elderly depression has been partially verified.In family support,older adults who saw their children more frequently and were closer to them had lower levels of depression,while older adults whose children provided life care had higher levels of depression.Second,the impact of community support on elderly depression has been basically verified.In community support,elderly people with better community feelings,neighborhood mutual aid,community public facilities and community security conditions have lower depression levels.Third,the impact of government and social support on elderly depression has been partially verified.Older people whose families receive government subsidies and social donations have higher levels of depression.Fourth,there are certain differences between urban and rural areas in the impact of different levels of social support on the depression level of the elderly.These differences are mainly reflected in factors such as children's life care,community security,community environmental conditions and government subsidies.According to the results of this study,this paper from the perspective of social workers,to family,community,government and society different point of view is put forward to prevent and alleviate the related countermeasure and the suggestion of senile depression:1.Social workers should be stressed that respect for the elderly to choose when intervention,urge the family for the elderly in line with the expectations of economic support,life care and emotional support,attention to mental health in the elderly.2.Social workers should fully tap,integrate and mobilize resources from all sides of the community to promote community support for environmental construction and development of community public services and mental health services.3.Social workers should not only advocate policies,urge the government to establish and improve the old-age care and medical security system,but also expand the scope and depth of social security.We should also actively participate in mental health services for the elderly and health education activities for the elderly.