Social Work Intervention In Stress Relief For Family Caregivers Of Disabled Elderly

As our population ages more rapidly,the elderly population increases and the number of elderly individuals who are incapacitated is rising quickly.The state and society have given the elderly crippled group a lot of attention,while caregivers have been ignored.The mainstay of Chinese family care today is the elderly disabled family caregiver,who is the major assurance of excellent quality of life.Family caregivers deal with a number of challenges and long-term,demanding caregiving tasks that severely disrupt their normal lives and put them under a lot of stress.Therefore,social workers need to focus more on the family carers of older individuals with disabilities and use their professional and theoretical advantages to assist them in problem-solving and stress reduction.In this paper,family caregivers of disabled elderly people in A community are selected as research objects,and the methods of semi-structured interview and participatory observation are used to sort out the stress manifestations of family caregivers and explore the causes of their stress.It is found that family caregivers of disabled elderly people in A community are concerned about the following aspects:negative living status,sensitive emotional response,physical status,financial conditions,social isolation,and analysis of the causes of stress include cognitive bias of caregivers,unreasonable adjustment of emotions,mismatch between caring ability and needs,and insufficient social support.Based on cognitive behavioral theory and social support theory,social workers help family caregivers reshape correct cognition,learn emotional management,improve caring ability,and integrate community resources.The process and effect of social work intervention were evaluated,and the results showed that the family caregiver’s stress was significantly relieved and life satisfaction was significantly improved.Through this study,the author found that social work intervention for stress relief of disabled elderly family caregivers still needs to be improved and developed.Based on the analysis of social work intervention practice,it is necessary to strengthen the mining of family caregivers’ internal resources.Training professionals in family caregiver problem solving;Attach importance to the assistance of resident social workers and community departments;Refine the intervention scale of family caregivers;Integrate community development resources and share them with caregivers.There is still a long way to go for social work intervention to relieve family caregivers’ stress.