Case Work Intervention In Alleviating Depression In The Eiderly Living Alone In Ruralareas

Under the background of active aging,how to make the elderly truly enjoy their old age has become a hot social issue.The number of the elderly living alone in rural areas is increasing,but there is little attention to the spiritual life of this group.Elderly people live alone for a long time,lack of children or others to accompany,material needs can be basically met,but spiritual needs are ignored.In the face of the changes in physiological,psychological and social life in old age,if you can’t correctly understand yourself,old age and family life,it is easy to form the unreasonable cognition of old and useless,and produce depression such as low mood,sense of self uselessness and sense of meaningless life.If not timely guidance will lead to aggravating mental health problems of the elderly,to the elderly life has a negative impact.Based on the project of "Qingmandi Township" in Zaoyang City,this study conducted a field survey on 30 elderly people living alone in X village through semi-structured interview,observation and scale method,and obtained the performance and causes of depression among the elderly living alone in rural areas through data analysis.A typical case was selected to conduct a practical intervention study.The intervention was divided into three stages: cognitive adjustment,support construction and consolidation and improvement.Use interview,life review and other methods to guide the client to correctly understand the senile period,senile disease,adjust the unreasonable cognition of senile and meaningless to see a doctor,relieve low mood;Build confidence,find meaning in life,and get out of the house by participating in group activities and community building;Tap into the support of family and community systems,increase emotional support,and maintain a positive mental state.The patient’s depression was effectively alleviated by evaluation,and the case intervention service was ended.Combined with theoretical research and practical intervention,it is concluded that case work can effectively relieve the depression of the elderly living alone in rural areas.The key is to adjust unreasonable cognition in the process of intervention,and the role of emotional support should not be ignored.Therefore,the depression of the elderly living alone should be alleviated from the elderly themselves,family,community and social policy system.The innovations of this study are that it takes the elderly living alone in rural areas as the research object,takes the alleviation of depression as the intervention point,and uses the method of case intervention to assist group activities and community activities to explore how to better help the elderly living alone in rural areas to relieve depression.At the same time,new ideas of social work intervention in rural elderly living alone will be explored to promote the development of an active aging society to a certain extent.The deficiency of this study is that social workers themselves are not professional,and their ability to provide services needs to be further improved.The particularity of case intervention to relieve depression in the elderly living alone in rural areas is difficult to summarize and form a universal working method.