Practical Research On Spiritual Solace For The Solitary Old Man

With an ageing population and modernizationthe in our country,family structure has changed,many young people leave home to pursue their career and life,leaving their elderly parents at home alone.and the one of the couple due to various reasons or leave or die,the group of the solitary old man emerged.Solitary old man not only children but also their spouses not around,the principal part of the spiritual solace gradually away from them,for its support and companionship is very little,lead to life unattended and company,loneliness gradually increase,the feeling of meaning gradually lost,its demand of spiritual solace gradually strong.Under this background,the aim of this study is through the use of social work concept and skills,in practice to explore meet the demand of old people who live alone spiritual solace of the specific ways and means of social work,promote the solitary old man spiritual solace problems in practice.This study used questionnaire and semi-structured interview for jiangsu province nanjing pukou L community 30 old people who live alone in the investigation,discovered that the spiritual solace for the community old people who live alone there are two major problems,the first is the higher-level needs of the solitary people didn't fulfill,the second is the emotional comfort of the solitary people is lack.For the above two problems,analysis of its causes,its includes:firstly,the way of group activities to participate is limited;seco-ndly,emotional body contact with solitary people very weak.According to the above two problem,analysis its causes include:First,the diverse family structure change.Second,The development of urbanization.Third,The community residents' committee administrative is too heavy and resource is limited.By analyzing and filtering,the service object of the project is 14 old people who live alone in L community of Nanjing.The early stage of the group,through the questionnaire and semi-structured interview method to collect data,has analyzed the basic situation and demand.This project mainly on activity design on the basis of the theory of hierarchy of needs and social support,and use the group work method.Group work with models for mutual benefit.The group goal is through group and various theme activities to meet the demand of solitary old man's spiritual solace,respect needs and self-actualization needs,at the same time reduce the old man's loneliness and helplessness.At the end of the group phase,group assessment found that through 12 times group activities improved the service object spiritual solace,mainly embodied in the service object to have a proper leisure venues,enrich the spiritual and cultural life,improve the social relation network,promote the diversification of the spiritual solace provider service object,achieved the purpose of the satisfaction of needs of a spiritual comfort.The study to solve the problem of old people who live alone spiritual solace provides a new train of thought,and proved that using social work method meet the demand of old people who live alone spiritual comfort is feasible.But in order to solve this problem perfectly,more exploration and resource integration is necessary.