| Due to the accelerated pace of aging in society,the number of elderly people is increasing year by year.For older people,the biggest dilemma they face in their later years is the death of their accompanying spouses.After experiencing the impact of widowhood,the mental state and lifestyle of the elderly will undergo significant changes,especially for widowed elderly living alone in cities,who are more likely to have high-level spiritual comfort needs after meeting their basic survival needs.Therefore,paying attention to the mental health of urban widowed elderly living alone and providing them with spiritual comfort services is of great significance achieving positive spiritual support for the elderly,and promoting harmonious social development.This study is based on the project A,which was launched by the X Social Work Service Center during the internship,and takes widowed and alone elderly people in community B as the research object.Through observation,interviews,and other methods,this study investigates the current situation of spiritual comfort for widowed and alone elderly people,and analyzes their problems and reasons for spiritual comfort.The study found that widowed elderly living alone in community B generally have spiritual comfort problems such as narrow social communication,lack of family emotions,and lack of cultural and entertainment.Therefore,after comprehensively considering the resources of Community B and its own capabilities,this article adheres to the professional concept of "helping others and self-help" in social work,selects two typical cases for intervention.According to the individual needs of the service object,this article provides "one-on-one" professional services through the process of receiving,estimating,formulating goals and plans,intervening,evaluating,and closing the case,Build a social support network for service objects,provide them with spiritual comfort and support,and help them to actively live and spend their later years in peace.Through the intervention of individual cases,both widowed and living alone elderly people have received a certain degree of spiritual comfort.Based on the results of practical work,this article draws conclusions and responds to the issue of spiritual comfort for urban widowed and solitary elderly people and puts forward relevant suggestions: it is necessary to increase the involvement of social workers,strengthen support for network construction,give full play to community functions,encourage social forces to participate,strengthen social system construction,and give play to the leading role of the government in order to build a positive spiritual elderly care system,Gradually address the issue of spiritual comfort for widowed and solitary elderly people in cities. |
