(1) Health promotion and health maintenance services.
Health promotion services are services related to treatment, rehabilitation and disease prevention for the elderly. Its main contents include health education and publicity activities related to chronic diseases, dealing with alcoholism and drug abuse, assisting in stress management, exercise planning, designing measures to prevent injuries among middle-aged and elderly people at home, providing mental health services, promoting preventive services, providing age-related disease information, and providing social services and follow-up health service consultation.
(2) Services related to medical care.
Health-related services are life care, domestic help, travel assistance, information consultation and other services indirectly related to the physical and mental health of the elderly. The main contents of medical care services include:
① Personal assistance services such as meal delivery, family sickbed, housework, visits and telephone condolences;
② Travel and mobility services, including the provision of crutches, wheelchairs and accommodation renovation;
(3) Installation of emergency call system and other technical support:
(4) Information consultation, referral, intergenerational assistance, day care, nutrition catering, house repair, caregivers' rest arrangements, nursing home life and other services.
2. Dealing with cognitive and emotional problems
Depression, dementia, delirium and anxiety are the four most common cognitive and emotional problems of the elderly. Elderly social workers will deal with some cognitive and emotional problems of the elderly.
In some cases, social workers help the elderly to eliminate the factors that lead to emotional problems. In other cases, social workers should strive to change the cognition of the elderly and help them adapt to the situation that they cannot change.
Pay attention to the attitude of the elderly towards intervention when doing this work. Older people may be biased against cognitive and emotional problems and refuse to cooperate with social workers. Therefore, it is also a very important part of intervention to help the elderly learn to recognize and accept their various emotional States.
Dealing with mental problems
Cherish the present; Find the meaning of the past; Face up to your limitations; Accept the good and bad aspects of life: expand the circle of personal hobbies and compassion.
4. Establish a social support network
Social support system mainly includes formal support and informal support.
(1) Official support.
The formal support system is mainly composed of government organizations for the elderly and organizations related to the elderly. Such as social welfare homes, nursing homes, apartments for the elderly, sanatoriums, hospice care institutions, community elderly centers, etc.
Main support contents: poverty alleviation, life care, crisis intervention and old-age security.
(2) The composition of informal support system.
The informal support system is usually divided into three categories: the first category is the support of family members (mainly children) to their parents. The second category is the support of relatives (brothers and sisters and distant relatives, in-laws, etc.). ) for the elderly. The third category is the support of non-relatives (neighbors, friends, colleagues, charities, NGOs, community volunteer services, etc.). ) for the elderly.
The main support contents include: economic support, emotional support, life care and spiritual comfort.
(3) Establish family support with family thinking.
The work of the family system mainly includes four parts: first, helping the family to "lift the fetters"; The second is to identify successful family coping skills; The third is to help the elderly and their families give priority to conflicting needs; The fourth is to formulate an action plan for the elderly.
(4) Promote the social integration of the elderly.
Promote socialization, design activity plans, carry out community activity projects, and promote integration.
5. Dealing with the special problems of the elderly
(1) Abuse and neglect.
Measures: protect the elderly from economic deprivation, provide relief services, develop supportive services, and change and adjust the environment.