Research On Group Work To Improve Community Participation Willingness Of Urban Empty-Nesters

At present,the aging of China’s population is deepening,and the number of empty nesters is also increasing year by year.Compared with rural areas,urban elderly people have a higher level of education and living standard,and their material life can be basically guaranteed.Therefore,it is their needs to receive elderly education,expand interpersonal communication,participate in social life,and enrich their leisure time in their later life.However,due to the lack of children to accompany the empty-nesters in cities,most of them are reluctant to go out of their homes and live a secluded life for a long time.As a result,the empty-nesters in cities are becoming more and more closed and gradually disconnected from the society.For empty-nesters,the most familiar community is the place where they are willing to come out and interact with others.Colorful community activities can not only bring emptynesters more spiritual comfort,but also help them make more elderly friends,which can relieve their loneliness to a certain extent and make their later life more colorful.Therefore,actively encouraging empty-nesters to participate in the community and improving their willingness to participate in the community will help them to achieve the goal of doing,learning and playing in the community participation.Therefore,taking the internship in the professional service project of social work for the elderly in Wuhan L community as an opportunity,this paper made an in-depth analysis of the basic situation of the empty-nesters in this community,the status quo of their willingness to participate in the community,the existing problems,the influencing factors and the needs by using the questionnaire survey and interview method.Based on the activity theory,Using group work method,this paper conducts a practical research on improving the willingness of urban empty-nesters to participate in community.The research shows that the urban emptynesters’ willingness to participate in the community is generally low,and group work is necessary to improve the urban empty-nesters’ willingness to participate in the community,and is one of the effective methods.Based on the above study,some advice are proposed as follows: First,the elderly should be encouraged to change their ideas and set up peer interest associations;Second,we should vigorously cultivate community social organizations to create a good atmosphere of community participation;Third we should encourage communities to exercise self-governance and stimulate the enthusiasm of residents to participate.