The Social Work Intervention Research On The Depression Of The Highly-educated Urban Seniors

As the aggravation of China’s aging population,the decline of fertility rate,the increase of one-child generation and the reduction of family size,the issue of elderly care has become a social hot spot.The number of old people in cities has far exceeded that in rural areas considering the continuous growth of urban population in the acceleration of urbanization.Being a special group,the pension problems and demands of the elderly intellectuals are more representative and prospective.Based on the previous research and data collection,it is found that the importance of the elderly needs should be attached to the spiritual demands.China has mainly completed the poverty-alleviation by 2020,thus the elderly merely has material needs in supporting the old.In this era,the spiritual needs of the elderly of great importance should be emphasized.Most knowledgeable elders with rich leisure activities after retirement tend to pursue a higher lifestyle.They are eager to keep up with the pace of the times and finds the value of their existence by participating in the social development,realizing a treasure sense of worthiness.They are energetic and pursue higher satisfaction,standing at the head of the ranks of the elderly.The methods and ethics of Social Work are highly applicable to old-age care services.In this context,the author conducted this paper on the basis of the internship experience in the Rainbow Social work Service Center and the volunteer service experience in P and the analysis of abundant materials collected previously.During the voluntary services for epidemic prevention,the author got acquainted with a Migrant elder who are mostly highly educated and engaged in the educational work before retirement with a high acceptance of social work services.After the consent of the group through interviews,a three-month social work service was conducted with the help of the social work agency and the Communist Youth League committee of P.In this paper,the basic situation of the elderly is known through questionnaires and the depression of the elderly is measured by SDS scale.Furthermore,in the form of a tea party,the team members were allowed to choose the activities they were interested in,hence the author made an activity plan according to their needs.The service includes group activities and case work in which the content of the group activity is to form an elderly chorus that members can even organize activities spontaneously after the group work.Meanwhile,the last two activities of group work are connected with the social resources to promote social communication among group members.The author summarized in every group activity so as to provide a better service for the team members.The post-test results showed that the depression of the group members is relieved through the intervention of social work and team members were willing to continue the activities.It is an effective way to solve the spiritual demands of the elderly intellectuals by means of providing the collective recreational and social participation activities.Emphasis should be placed on arousing the enthusiasm of the elderly meanwhile bringing their superiority into full play in group activities.Nevertheless,there are still some deficiencies in the continuous service of this activity,which are mainly reflected in the environment and the improvement of the elderly’s spontaneity.It is hoped that this paper can provide some thinking paradigms for social work service intervening in elderly intellectuals’ care services and increase the practical experience of social work service.