Research On Social Support For Elderly Health Under The Background Of Healthy Aging

With the declining fertility and mortality rate of the population and the continuous increase of the average life expectancy of the people,the aging of our country’s population is increasing day by day.At the same time,the increase in life expectancy means that the time period for the loss of autonomy in life in later years will also be extended,which not only fails to improve the quality of life of the elderly,but intensifies their health contradictions.Faced with this problem,the party and the state have placed "healthy aging" in a strategic position and emphasized the creation of a social support and living environment that is conducive to the health of the elderly.In 1990,the WHO formally put forward the concept of "healthy aging",emphasizing attention to the physical and psychological age of the elderly,improving their quality of life,reducing individual pain in later life,and achieving a good state of their physiological functions,psychological cognition and social functions.Social support is a series of material,spiritual,and abilities that members of society provide when they encounter difficulties and crises by the social network they maintain daily.Existing research generally believes that social support has a significant positive impact on the health of the elderly.On the one hand,it plays a universal role in the daily life of elderly individuals through material,emotional,information and other resources,and on the other hand,it plays a universal role in the daily life of elderly individuals.Adverse effects under stress or other stress conditions have become a stable protection mechanism for the health of the elderly.This paper uses Stata 16.0 statistical analysis software to conduct a descriptive statistical analysis of the health status,social support reality and overall level of 15,874 elderly people in the Chinese Elderly Health Influencing Factors Tracking Survey(CLHLS).On the one hand,it is based on the concept of healthy aging background.Select the available questions on the CLHLS questionnaire to construct a comprehensive evaluation index system for elderly health of subjective well-being(self-rated health)and objective health(physical health,mental health,and social functional health).According to the measurement of the overall health of the elderly in China Self-rated health performance is good,but the observed values of objective health indicators such as physical,psychological,and social functions are not optimistic;on the other hand,combined with social support theory and Maslow’s hierarchy of needs theory,the social support of the elderly is divided into material economy,In terms of mental and emotional,medical care,social interaction,and institutional guarantees,statistics on the social support of the elderly in China have found that various social support projects have different proportions of the elderly who report insufficient support and the elderly’s social support network is relatively single,and the core Family members are still the main support bearers.There are certain differences in the role of different subjects in the social support network.For example,in the material life of the elderly,the transfer income provided by children and the social pension system established by the government are their main sources of support,while in the spiritual and emotional aspects,spouses,children and friends and neighbors are more powerful support forces.On this basis,an ordered multiple logistic regression and multiple linear regression models were established,statistical analysis and in-depth exploration of whether there is a significant relationship between social support and the health of the elderly,while focusing on clarifying the impact of different social support networks and social support programs on the elderly Differences in the effects of human health and the mode of action.The regression results show that:(1)The various social supports of the elderly are highly correlated with their physical and mental health.The regression coefficients of almost all social support items and the health of the elderly are positive,confirming the positive impact of social support on the health of the elderly;(2)There are certain differences in the intensity and mode of action of different social support projects on the health of the elderly.Material economic support is undoubtedly the most common basic support item for the physical and mental health of the elderly.The mental,emotional and social interaction support plays a prominent role in the mental and social health of the elderly.In addition,social security and other system support and illness Medical support also plays a certain role in guarantee and gain.Based on the results of quantitative analysis,this article combines the theory of health promotion to propose social support policy recommendations for the health of the elderly population: Firstly,improve the social support network,including the active role of the government responsible body,increase support for elderly families,and promote social diversity;secondly,optimize the social support projects,including improving the health security system for the elderly,creating a positive social environment,and attaching importance to the spiritual and emotional support of the elderly;finally,take multiple measures,including strengthening the education and publicity of the health of the elderly,and establishing the health monitoring mechanism for the elderly to achieve healthy aging.