Study On Relieving And Intervention In Rural Family Caregivers’ Stress For Elders

With the continuous development of aging population, the rural elderly population increase, the life span of population as a whole but with old age increase, the body gradually degenerate, in the new life cannot provide for oneself is gradually increasing proportion of time. By 2010, the country’s thirty-three million elderly population of disability or fail completely, accounting for 19.0% of the total number of the elderly. This requires long-term care, and accordingly we need more and more care for family caregivers to bear heavy responsibility. With the change of social structure, more women into the job market, more young adults to urban mobility, intergenerational relations down, making family planning family declining birthrate. This makes traditional family pension relationship weakened, reducing the resources of the entire family pension available, which made the rural elderly family caregivers pressures.This study of 12 elderly people from Shanxi Province village L family caregivers were interviewed using qualitative research methods, rural elderly family caregivers suffer pressure from physical, psychological, economic, family, community and other aspects of social in the daily care process through interviews. By understanding caregiver strain and then found that there is great demand for material, emotional, and information. Further on the caregivers coping strategies are analyzed for the needs of caregivers, including cognitive and behavioral coping. Cognitive oriented strategies which including positive coping and negative coping. Behavior oriented strategies including self-solving strategies and seeking social support policies.We clarified the rural elderly family caregiver strain, the actual demand and their coping styles through interviews, using the method of professional social work interventional trying to ease caregiver to take care of pressure. Through drawing social work helping concepts and methods, we use the case of Social Work and Social Work Group for rural elderly family caregivers pressure intervention. In the case of intervention by a professional relationship with the main case to discuss care skills, encourage actively adjust the main case to release the pressure of their own. In the intervention group, the first recruitment of similar family caregivers as members, in the "self-reliance" philosophy conducted five group activities to enhance social adaptability members, enhance the ability to ease the pressure of compression members, gradually increased self-help capacities. Through the combination of process assessment and result assessment evaluation way of intervention effects were evaluated, to further verify the social work in alleviating the pressure of the rural elderly family caregivers in terms of actual effect. Cases and groups were compared in order to be able to choose a better future in a manner according to the actual situation.