Group Work Practice Exploration Of Loneliness Alleviation For Elderly Living Alone

Old people living alone because of living alone,with the decline of physical function,often problems and unknown,it is easy to affect the safety of life.In real life,elderly people living alone are more likely to have psychological problems and loneliness due to various reasons,which lead to a variety of negative behaviors.There are more extreme responses,such as suicide.Their loneliness needs to be paid enough attention by the society.Domestic scholars' studies on the loneliness of elderly people living alone mainly focus on the analysis from the perspective of psychology,social support factors in sociology,and the adverse consequences caused by loneliness.Rarely seen from the perspective of loneliness relief for elderly people living alone.The intervention of social workers is the best way to alleviate their loneliness.They can have an in-depth understanding of the loneliness of elderly people living alone.And according to their own conditions and needs to adopt professional methods to alleviate their loneliness.This paper takes the elderly living alone in X community as the research object,relying on the research methods of social work and professional theory of social work,to analyze the reasons of loneliness and loneliness of the elderly living alone,and to intervene with professional methods of group work.In the early stage,the group understands the needs of its clients through questionnaires and interviews;in the mid-term,it conducts practical research with specific group activities and carries out timely evaluation;in the latter stage,workers actively plan activities to consolidate the effectiveness of the group with the help of community platform,and analyze the effectiveness and shortcomings of the group through the summary of the group and the changes of its members.Through the process evaluation and result evaluation of group activities,it is found that there are obvious changes in group members after six sections of group activities.Loneliness index has generally declined,members' views on old age have changed,and their enthusiasm for participating in community activities has also increased.Therefore,the main conclusion of this study is that the intervention of group practice in the study of loneliness alleviation of the elderly living alone has achieved good results.In addition,this study provides a reference for the same type of services in X community.At the same time,the study also draws the following conclusions: the consolidation of team results is a very necessary work,workers should flexibly apply skills to help clients review and consolidate what they havelearned;in order to coordinate the community,institutions and residents,they should be good at utilizing and tapping community talent resources.