Group Work Involved In The Self-management Of Chronic Diseases

The self-management of chronic diseases in the elderly needs to improve the diet and exercise habits of the elderly people with chronic diseases from three aspects of physiology,psychology and social environment,improve their ability of emotional control and stress management,and improve the development and utilization of the community resources.The main influencing factors of self-management of chronic diseases in the elderly include education level,marital status,economic income and family history of chronic diseases.When group social work involves self-management of chronic diseases in the elderly,it is suggested to easy-to-understand activities and easy-to-operate health gymnastics,to share the effective experience of selfmanagement of chronic diseases and to encourage and support among peers,to provide free health examinations and lectures on chronic diseases,turning a negative approach to a positive approach to self-management of chronic diseases.The effective way for social work to intervene in the self-management chronic diseases in the elderly is to participate in self-management,which takes the community as the carrier,the social worker as the bridge of the doctor-patient communication,connects the medical staff and the elderly with chronic diseases,to carry out self-management groups for the elderly with chronic diseases.The effective methods of social work intervention in the self-management of chronic diseases in the elderly include: experience,alternative experience,verbal persuasion and physiological feedback.Experience comes from personal experience,the lasting impact on the individual will not be shaken by the immediate gains and losses;The alternative experience is the indirect experience gained by observing or imitating others,and is the most widely used method at present;Verbal persuasion is a way to change one's attitude and behavior through the advice and guidance of the Companions of knowledge.Physiological feedback is through the use of instruments and scales to give feedback.