| Institutional care is an important part of China’s elderly care service system.However,closed and collective management are more likely to cause psychological and mental problems for the elderly with health problems caused by age than community and home-based elderly care.Depression is a kind of common mental problem for the elderly.The elderly with depressive symptoms are prone to insomnia,lack of appetite and other problems,which will affect their physical health and even cause suicidal tendency.Therefore,it is very necessary to alleviate the depressive symptoms of the elderly in nursing facility and help them adapt to nursing facility and live happily.In order to explore the intervention effect of group reminiscence therapy on depressive symptoms of the elderly in nursing facility,this study took some elderly in a nursing facility in Nanjing as the research object,combined reminiscence therapy with the group work method of social work,and designed the group activity plan of group reminiscence therapy on depressive symptoms of the elderly in nursing facility.Six elderly people in the experimental group were carried out group intervention activities for 6 weeks in the facility.The subjects were measured with the Geriatric Depression Scale(gds-30)before,at the end of and 2months after the group intervention,and the significance and sustainability of the intervention effect were analyzed.According to the statistical analysis of the scale scores,the following conclusions can be drawn:(1)group reminiscence therapy can significantly reduce the level of depressive symptoms,and the effect is sustainable;(2)The group activity program of group reminiscence therapy for intervention of elderly depressive symptoms in elderly care facility used in this study can play a significant role in reducing the level of depressive symptoms of the subjects.And it is easy to be replicated and popularized. |
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