Practical Exploration Of Group Work To Improve The Health And Anxiety Of The Elderly

In modern society,the word "anxiety" appears more and more frequently,and there are many types of anxiety.Health anxiety is one of them.Health anxiety refers to an individual's excessive attention to physical health,excessive exaggeration of normal body sensation,or negative interpretation and fear of an abnormal physical sensation.Since China entered an aging society,the elderly population has become more and more.With an increasing number of elderly population,there are appearing more and more senior citizens with health anxiety which is not only harmful to their own health but also have a negative impact on both family and social harmony.This article takes the elderly in the K community in Shenzhen as an example.Through field interviews,it is found that the elderly with health and anxiety have typical characteristics in terms of psychology,body and behavior.And the analysis shows that subjective factors such as psychological cognition,self-regulation ability and attention are the main factors affecting the health and anxiety of the elderly.On this basis,the author designed a group activity to improve the health and anxiety of the elderly,and carried out the process,results evaluation and reflection of the group activities.Finally,based on this practical exploration,the author puts forward a comprehensive application of professional social work methods for the health anxiety of the elderly;Connects professional resources to popularize the idea of body aging and diseases,and proactively cultivate an optimistic attitude to learn self-regulation and makes the best use of the functions of the family and the community.So as to offer a provide a new perspective and solution to the problem of health anxiety of the elderly.