A Case Study Of Family Support For Elderly With Low Vision

With China’s economic and social undertakings developed more rapidly, people’ living standards and the quality of life has gradually improved, meanwhile people’s average life expectancy has also increased, so the trend of aging of China’s population becoming more obviously. According to the age structure of the population, China has becoming an aging population country. Moreover, as the lower fertility levels and the level gradually keep stabled, China’s aging population degree will turn to be severe aging from the mild aging. That will brought many society problem.Although on the surface, old people can accept their age and bad physical condition, but they also bear lots of pain especially the mental pain of losing confident of their life. This will not only have bad effect for their health but also let their mood becoming more depressive. Visual impairment is a very painful disability, if there are no good ways to help elder people express their feelings, their bad motion will not been released, so that will effect their daily life and the family life atmosphere. Meanwhile, the majority of family only look the visual impairment as the common disease to look after and lack of target, that will lead elder people’s psychological motion been ignored and caused by continuous vicious cycle.Social work is a kind of service activity that based on scientific knowledge, let the altruism be a guide and help people with scientific methods. In essence, social work is a helping people activity and provide help to them. More exactly to say that, it is different from normal charity activity, it is a scientific work. Our country still in Ayumi stage, advocating professional social ethical spirit, advocate help self dedication, make full use of the social support networks and social policy etc. Characteristics of the professional social work involved n urban community service has its unique advantages. Using the professional method of social work to give low vision elder people and their family support and released their pressure from the vision problem, helping them have a happy dignity is the key content.