Research On Health Education For Empty Nesters In Urban Communities From The Perspective Of Healthy Aging

In 2022,our population will experience negative growth for the first time in recent decades.The aging of our society is becoming more pronounced,and the size of the aging population group is becoming larger,as is the size of the group of empty nesters within cities.The lack of informal support for the empty nesters has led to a weakening of their ability to obtain other support.In this context,based on the current health situation and health problems faced by the empty nesters in urban communities,and from the perspective of healthy aging,using the social work method of group work to provide health education social work services for the empty nesters in the community will help the empty nesters to awaken their health awareness and develop healthy behaviors,improve their health level and life satisfaction,and meet It will also improve their health and life satisfaction,meet their needs for a higher quality of life,and contribute to the realization of healthy aging.In this paper,based on reading and organizing related literature,we used the empty nesters in community A of Chongqing as the research object,and used questionnaires,semi-structured interviews and participant observation as the preliminary research methods to understand the basic living conditions,basic health conditions and health needs of the empty nesters in community A.We also used group work as the basis to understand the health needs of the empty nesters in community A.The group activities combined education and action to improve the health knowledge and practice of the empty nesters,to meet their needs for health education and health improvement,and to help them strengthen their knowledge of health and improve their health practice in life.The group activities are divided into four parts: physical health education,mental health education,promotion of social integration and social support,and improvement of home environment.It is hoped that this will increase the empty nesters’ mastery of health knowledge,alleviate their loneliness and negative emotions such as anxiety and depression,improve their self-esteem level,promote their social integration,strengthen their ability to obtain social support,and improve their personal home environment.In this study,a total of group activities were conducted based on the theme of health education,and some empty nesters in the community were selected as the study subjects,and an experimental group and a control group were set up.Before the beginning and after the end of the group intervention,pre-and post-tests of life satisfaction and health level were done for members of both groups to observe the effects of group activities on their life satisfaction and health level.Group members were also assessed for group satisfaction and surveyed for changes in their health awareness,social integration,and home environment.The results of the study showed that the professional working method of group work would help empty nesters improve their health awareness,health ability and life satisfaction,alleviate their loneliness and depression,promote their social integration,and strengthen their sense of belonging to the community.At the same time,their quality of life in terms of health has been improved and their health behaviors have been increased.Based on the situation that emerged in the course of the study and the results of the study,the author believes that group work has certain advantages in conducting health education for empty nesters,and that urban empty nesters need health education services and health education is effective for them.The author makes the following suggestions,community health education can be carried out jointly with community elderly care,using intelligent devices to strengthen socialized support and socialized care for empty nesters,establishing a regular and flexible health education mechanism in the community,and building a more specialized health education team.