A Study On The Loneliness Of Rural Elderly Living Alone Involved In Group Work

Under the background of aging society,family support for the aged is gradually weakened,and there are more elderly people living alone and left-behind in rural areas.The reality of staying behind and living alone not only brings psychological damage to the elderly,threatens their mental health,is not conducive to the elderly to live a happy old life,but also has a certain impact on social stability.Therefore,this elderly group living alone needs the attention and intervention of social work.Taking L Village in Rugao City,Nantong City,Jiangsu Province as an example,this study conducted an investigation by using semi-structured interview method and social support theory to explore the causes and needs of loneliness among the elderly from the individual,family and social levels,and to alleviate the practical problems of loneliness among the elderly living alone under the guidance of this theory,trying to find a model of social work intervention with extensibility.The study adopted the group work method in social work practice,and carried out six group activities according to the specific situation,and achieved success.Starting from the establishment of the mutual assistance system for the elderly living alone in L village,starting from the four aspects of cognitive adjustment,enjoyment adjustment,technological adjustment and communication adjustment,and following the strategy of change and consolidation,the corresponding group activity content is designed to establish a support group for the elderly living alone in L village.The ability of the elderly living alone in L village to cope with loneliness is built up imperceptitiously in the group activities.Reorientate my own style of old age life to achieve the professional concept of social work to help others and help themselves.In the later group work evaluation,process evaluation and result evaluation were used to evaluate the loneliness of the elderly living alone in L village,so as to explore the effectiveness of the group.The group effectively helped the elderly living alone in L village resolve their sense of loneliness and improve their sense of self-efficacy and interpersonal skills.Based on this,the study puts forward the suggestion to intervene the loneliness of the elderly living alone in rural areas through group work,which provides theoretical support for future research and valuable reference for the group work to intervene the loneliness of the elderly living alone.It has enriched the research of social work in this field,promoted the whole society to pay attention to this special group,and promoted the perfection and development of elderly social work in rural work.