Research On Case Work Intervention In Alleviating The Loneliness Of The Urban Elderly Living Alone

The China is experiencing rapid urbanization,at the same time,the process of population aging is also accelerating.It is not only promotes the increase of the scale of population mobility,but also expands the population of the elderly living alone in cities since the miniature core family model gradually becomes the mainstream.Hence,how to help them spend their old age has become a more urgent social issue.In this paper,taking Wuhan L community over 60 years old elderly living alone as the research object,early relying on the internship institutions in the community to undertake pension services.Considering all sorts of factors from the community from the lonely questionnaire survey,the survey results for loneliness and above,and agreed to interview with 14 old people living alone for structural interview,eventually,pick a service object for case intervention.Case service content of this study is mainly based on ecosystem theory and social support theory.Respectively from three dimensions,the micro,intermediate and external system and three aspects,the guidance of bad emotions,establishment of emotional support system and the improvement of mental life,a total of 13 times intervention service,which in order to improve the service object of loneliness problem.In the case service for more than four months,the author found that from the selection of professional methods of social work,it still has limitations although case work has some effect in the intervention of loneliness.From the perspective of intervention,either the family level or the government level alone can not fundamentally and effectively alleviate the loneliness of the elderly living alone in cities,which requires the long-term joint efforts of multiple forces and even the whole society.In the meantime,we social workers should attach more importance to the elderly themselves when providing intervening in services.For example,they need to learn how to live by themselves,how to shift the focus of life from their children or the people around them to themselves,to redefine and explore their own social value,and to obtain social identity and sense of value.