探讨医务社会工作在社区养老中的作用

社区是老年人生活和活动的主要场所，在提供养老服务方面具有很大优势。由于政府投入社区养老的资源有限和人们观念认识等方面的问题，使得社区养老没有达到预期的效果，即没有满足老年人的有效需求，特别是老年人的医疗需求，使得老年养老问题再次陷入困境。医务社工的介入，是解决当前社区养老中追切需要解决的问题的有效元素，也是使得社区养老资源发挥更大效用的关键因素。

Exploring the Function of Medical Social Work in the Community Care for the Elderly

Community is the main location for the elderly to live and participate in other activities, and there are many advantages in providing service for the elderly in the community. However, in mainland China, nowadays community earo for the elderly doesn＇t meet the expectable goals, that is, it cannot eater for the elder＇s need, particularly the medical service need. And the reasons accounting for the dilemma are the limited resource provided by the government, as well as the people＇s cognition toward the community care for the elderly. The intervention of medienl social work is the effective element to solve the currently urgent problem existed in the community care for the elderly, as well as the key factor to make the limited resource have more use.