| The proportion of the elderly in the total population has shown a rising trend recently, which brings some pressure to the development of society and economy. This tendency, however, as a driving force, also creates new opportunities for the development of the profession and market related to the ageing industries. In recent years, in order to meet the needs of the elderly and to assist and support the family pension, the number of pension institutions is in the continuous increase, at the same time, the hardware facilities of nursing homes are upgrading and improving. Obviously, the favorable living environment provides the material basis for the elderly in nursing homes. However, lack of the residents-oriented service and ignorance of psychological care for the elderly residents can bring negative effects on the quality of life and happiness of nursing home residents, which leads to maladjustment to a nursing home by elderly residents. Because of relocation to a nursing home, the new environment totally different from that of their homes, it really takes elderly residents some time to adapt and transit. During this period, the elderly in nursing home will experience stressful events, depression, anxiety and discomfort of physical and mental reaction if they are disable to adapt to the nursing home, for example, failing to establish new interpersonal network, no sense of belongings and loss of meaningful roles and so on.Regarding the needs as well as the physical and mental health of the elderly as the core of professional services, the gerontological social work plays a very important role in mature service. The operating methods consist of case work, group work and community work. The theory of gerontology, sociology, psychology, and social work are the useful reference for the gerontological social work to help elderly people cope with the difficulties, accept their new social roles, explore their own strengths and abilities, enrich their life and, at the same time, improve the quality of life of the elderly. Therefore, the professional social work with elderly people in nursing homes can not only help elderly residents solve the problems of maladjustment, but also enhance their ability of all aspects. For pension institutions, the gerontological social work, to a great extent, is favorable to the improvement of the quality of their services and optimization structure of human resources by providing professional training for their staff.Based on the above thinking, this article takes S pension institution in Nanjing as the research place. During the period of internship and research, this paper chooses the inadaptation of an elderly resident named T as the object of this study. The gerontological case work has been used to solve the problems of our object after taking the will of the pension agency, the families of T and itself into account. When further exploration and evaluation of the object has been made, with the reference of system theory, cognitive behavioral theory and strength perspective, the researcher make full use of cognitive behavior therapy, strength perspective and the resources in the surrounding environment around the object in order to get support from pension institution, families and other elderly residents, to create a sound environment for the object, to help solve the inadaption of the elderly resident, enhance its ability to adapt to the nursing home. We hope that this study can make certain contribute to the further development of the gerontological social work in pension institutions. |
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