Study On The Intervention Of Social Work In Mental Comfort For Elderly Veterans In L Community

Elderly veterans, as a special group of elderly people, have higher social expectations and spiritual needs than ordinary elderly, but because of age, health and other reasons they are gradually out of the mainstream of society, and that brings huge psychological gap, which causes loneliness, self denial, the value of life or weakening of sense of meaning and other issues, which not only affects their physical and mental health and happiness, but also affect the family and social harmony. Therefore, to resolve the elderly veterans’ negative psychological problems such as emotional loneliness, life value and weakening of sense of meaning, becomes a reality and urgent need. With the practice of relying on the "three project" of Linjiang City of Ministry of civil affairs, the author using the theory and method of community work, provide a series of spiritual comfort services to help relieve emotional loneliness, search for the value and meaning of life to some of the elderly veterans in the L community.The research proved that, the body suffering from diseases, cool family relationships, lack of the system of full acceptance, understanding and caring of assisted living is related to the negative emotions and negative psychology of the elderly veterans. To solve the elderly veterans spirit demand must start from the care of their health, optimization of family relationships and improve the life support system etc. This project through carrying out "unaged old souls in Linjiang--approached the veteras", "interactive National Day-you, me and veterans", "red star shining--indelible memory" and " learning good examples of veterans, spiritual civilization in Linjiang" and other activities, for creating a platform for veterans to get out of the house, to go to the community and to contribute to society, has certain positive effects.Project practice shows:To guide the elderly veterans out of the house, feel the freshness of the outside world, is an effective way to relieve the loneliness and other negative emotions; to create a stage to show their life experience and expertise, to give them acceptance, understanding, respect and the needed emotional experience, is a necessary measure to help the elderly to reconstruct life value and sense of meaning; government, community is still the most important services of the elderly veterans mental resource providers, therefore, relying on the government and community service, is an important guarantee to carry out mental comfort service for elderly veterans; life course reviewing method, past memory method is an effective professional method and technology to meet the spiritual comfort demand of elderly veterans.