澳门推动原居安老

面对老龄人口对安老服务需求的大增，澳门特区政府将进一步落实“原居安老”政策。通过加强社区外展支援服务及护老者支援服务，帮助长者在原生社区安老的同时，加强关注长者学习新知识的需要，支持开展更多长者学习课程，回应社会需要。对在社区开设私人安老院受阻问题，特区政府将根据现行相关法律规范，严谨处理审批准照申请。     

青岛市市南区：拓展社区照料空间 满足养老多样化需求

构筑社区养老平台让老年人日间有个好去处建立社区养老组织网络。区成立养老服务工作领导小组,办公室设在区民政局。街道建立养老协会。社区成立“夕阳红”俱乐部,以社区居委会为依托,建立社区养老服务站,具体负责社区养老服务的组织实施。完善社区养老服务设施。把星光老年之家、室外健身路径纳入社     

小城镇特色社区网格化服务模式的初探

随着社会管理体制的不断创新,"社区网格化服务"作为一种新型社区服务模式在城市社区尤其是大城市社区取得了良好的成绩,由此作为现代社会特殊类型的小城镇社区也被要求不断完善其服务体系,引进"社区网格化服务"模式。虽然这一模式的引进发展在一定程度上取得了不错的成就,但是很多小城镇社区在发展过程中发生了"水土不服"。笔者在全面分析小城镇社区网格化服务提出的背景,梳理其在推广发展中遇到的困境的基础上,针对性地提出构建"社区联络员"网格化服务模式、"居民情互助式"网格化服务模式等小城镇特色社区网格化服务模式。     

小组工作在社区长者服务中的运用--以南国颐景老年公寓为例

小组工作是社会工作的一种专业方法,它不仅是社会工作者经常运用的工作方法之一,同时还是一个重要的中介,贯通和连接着宏观社会工作和微观社会工作。运用小组工作的专业手法为社区长者开展小组工作是我们教学实践的一种新的尝试,通过小组活动和互动交流的方式,使长者放松心情,享受欢乐,体现了社区专业工学结合植根于社区的教学理念,也为小组工作服务社区长者提供了经验。     

社区照顾——养老模式的新探索

社区照顾作为一种理念,最先由英国提出。社区照顾的服务对象包括所有有需要的社区成员,而对长者的照顾最能体现社区照顾的特点与优势。社区照顾的养老模式是通过各种社区资源的调动使居家养老的长者能够在他们熟悉的社区环境下维持独立的生活,又获得必要的照顾。这种方式对于目前我国机构养老的床位不足的困境,应该是很好的补充。     

社区志愿服务活动调研分析——以山西省太原市H社区为个案

通过对太原市H社区进行的志愿服务活动调研,了解到社区居民倾向于参与志愿服务活动,但对"怎样做,做什么"并不十分了解。针对这一问题,课题组与社区联合启动了一项"为老服务项目",在运行这个项目的过程中,明确了社区志愿服务活动的推进需要解决一些具体的问题。     

青岛市市南区——破除养老服务社会化瓶颈

“三大体系”搭建养老服务社会化平台其一,建立养老服务组织体系。市南区成立分管区长任组长,民政局、财政局等12个部门和各街道领导组成的养老服务社会化工作领导小组,街道成立养老服务委员会；社区成立养老服务联席会。同时,培育发展一大批为老服务民间组织,如区养老服务协会、街道养老服务分会、社区夕阳红俱乐部、楼院老年人联谊会等。2006年,又成立了养老服务社会化研究会,把驻区单位、     

麻风康复社区长者综合服务模式及介入策略——来自三个麻风康复社区的行动研究

文章运用行动研究法和个案研究法,对三个麻风康复社区现状和问题进行评估,收集资料,制定服务计划,实施计划,评估计划;整合社会工作各种方法和资源,从个人、群体、社区三个层面进行介入行动及分析,以此研究长者综合服务模式的可行性和科学性,从而促进麻风康复社区和谐发展。     

麻风康复社区长者综合服务模式及介入策略——来自三个麻风康复社区的行动研究

文章运用行动研究法和个案研究法,对三个麻风康复社区现状和问题进行评估,收集资料,制定服务计划,实施计划,评估计划;整合社会工作各种方法和资源,从个人、群体、社区三个层面进行介入行动及分析,以此研究长者综合服务模式的可行性和科学性,从而促进麻风康复社区和谐发展。     

浙江省常山县:多举措 扎实推进“日间照料中心”建设

近年来,浙江省常山县民政局不断加强社会养老工作探索,在充分发挥职能部门业务指导作用的同时,通过整合资源、争取上级部门政策扶持,开拓了养老服务模式创新的新局面。其一,建立城市社区居家养老服务队伍。目前该县城市社区普遍建有专业服务队伍、志愿者服务队伍(党员志愿者和居民志愿者)。社区共建单位也纷纷通过"党员进社区"服务和"三进三到"等活动载体参与居家养老服务中心日常帮扶、志愿活动。其二,积极整合社会资源,统筹地将居家养老服务中心与社区"5181890"服务热线"合二为一",充分发挥热线接收信息快、     

Grannies,Elders, and Friends: Aging Aboriginal Women in Toronto

Based on a research project in Toronto, Canada, this article highlights the strengths and resiliency of 12 female Aboriginal Elders and seniors as they age together. For these women, being actively involved in their families and the Aboriginal community gives them a solid grounding in who they are, what their roles are and how they contribute to the whole. Of particular significance is the support and friendship the women offer each other through their commonalities, activities, and sense of humor.     

Addressing older women's homelessness: service and housing models

There is limited understanding of the nature and extent of older women's homelessness in Australia and how it can be alleviated. The aim of this project is to ascertain the combination of program and housing models that is likely to be most effective in addressing older women's homelessness. The data comprise interviews and correspondence with 14 Australian and international stakeholders. The findings draw on insight from housing, gerontology and gender studies, and highlight the need to match welfare and housing programs with the diverse life experiences and current needs of older women. Alongside flagship models of practice in housing provision are assumptions within housing and homelessness sectors of what older women need. There is a lack of understanding that most older women in housing crisis have limited knowledge of the welfare sector, and with provision of mainstream housing (and community aged care if needed) will live independently. Traditional homelessness programs and specialised supportive housing, associated with both seniors and homelessness sectors, are appropriate for women who have lived with ongoing disruption and substantive health concerns. Addressing older women's homelessness in Australia requires a range of services and housing responses, with increased attention given to a discourse of housing – affordable, secure housing – rather than continued discourse of homelessness.     

Social Work Practice With LGBT Seniors

The Los Angeles Gay & Lesbian Center began providing services to LGBT seniors in 2008. Since then, the Center’s seniors program has grown to over 3,300 clients. It provides a variety of enrichment and support services with the overarching goal of empowering seniors to successfully age in place. This article outlines the service delivery program of the Center’s Seniors Services Department and describes its successes and challenges in meeting the needs of diverse LGBT seniors. It offers future directions for social work practice, policy, and research with LGBT older adults.     

Social Service Outreach Programs Using Elderly Korean Immigrants' Church Ties

ABSTRACT

This study examined how Protestant Korean-American churches and their pastors can serve as ties between Korean seniors and agencies that offer social services. Working in partnership with the North Central Texas Area Agency on Aging (NCTAAA) and 2-1-1 services at United Way, the researcher asked 53 Korean pastors in two counties in North Central Texas to participate in the study. Each was asked about his willingness to host an outreach program. Thirty telephone surveys and 11 face-to-face interviews inquired about current services and pastor willingness to serve as gatekeepers for seniors. Translation and transportation were the top social service needs. All pastors in the study agreed that their churches should be a vehicle to provide social service information to seniors. Indeed, five churches accommodated program outreach offered by the NCTAAA and 2-1-1 services. The host churches tended to have highly structured, regularly scheduled programs (e.g., ethnic senior schools) already in place. A total of 405 Korean seniors participated in the outreach events, and 28 seniors were assisted in benefit counseling by telephone. Altogether, the results suggest that social service agencies can use the church ties of Korean seniors for program outreach.     

Contributions of Volunteer Networking to Isolated Seniors in Hong Kong

Abstract

Although research and theory suggest that volunteers contribute to the quality of life of senior people whom they serve, rigorous empirical investigation is missing for senior Hong Kong Chinese. A project that recruits, trains, and matches volunteers for isolated and frail senior Hong Kong Chinese is good for the investigation because it represents a new approach. This study employed a two-wave panel design to collect data from 125 users of the volunteer networking project. Its results demonstrate that volunteer input, in terms of contact intensity and helpfulness, significantly contributed to Wave 2 quality-of-life outcomes, including reduction in worry, increase in community knowledge, and social integration given the control of their prior scores. Nevertheless, volunteer input had no significant effects on the senior visitee's health.     

Chinese seniors’ attitudes towards government responsibility for social welfare: Self‐interest,collectivism orientation and regional disparities

Government responsibility for social welfare remains a significant issue in the field of social welfare. Public welfare attitudes not only refer to the social needs of members of society, but also are viewed as the basis for government responsibility for social welfare. Data used in this study came from the Moderate Universalist Social Welfare Survey with a final sample of 1,166 seniors from four Chinese cities in 2012. This study examined seniors’ attitudes towards government responsibility for providing specific welfare and mixed welfare. It concluded that seniors’ welfare attitudes share the traits of self‐interest in general. Seniors’ perception of social rights and cities of residence were two important factors associated with welfare attitudes in both aspects of specific and mixed welfare. The stronger seniors’ social rights perception was the more favourable were the attitudes they held towards government responsibility for social welfare, indicating the collectivism orientation of their welfare attitudes.     

Family conflict and future concerns: Opportunities for social workers to better support Chinese immigrant caregiver employees

ABSTRACT

This paper explores the experiences of Chinese immigrant caregiver employees (CEs) residing in Southern Ontario, Canada. Qualitative analysis of participant interviews with thirteen Mandarin Chinese immigrant CEs revealed family conflicts due to cultural differences and an intergenerational gap between CEs and their care recipients. CEs also had future concerns in regards to their own health and the lack of long-term care facilities that offer cultural services for immigrant seniors. These findings provide an opportunity for social workers to collaborate with other service providers to provide ethno-specific and culturally sensitive health, community. and employment services to immigrant ethnic minority CEs.     

可持续发展的校企合作模式研究——以广州城市职业学院物流管理专业为例

校企合作在高职教育中越来越重要,是高等职业院校标志性内涵的体现,是培养高职学生职业技能的最重要途径。通过借鉴其他院校的成功经验以及7年的校企合作探索,广州城市职业学院物流管理专业逐步形成可持续发展的合作模式,在建立学长导师制、优秀毕业生"帮传带"、"交叉订单"培养模式方面形成值得借鉴的经验。文章还提出应提倡校园文化与企业文化共存的多元、兼容的文化氛围,提出建立因时因地制宜的柔性校企合作运行机制的建议。     

The third-age African American seniors: benefits of participating in senior multipurpose facilities

This article examines the contexts and benefits of African American seniors' participation in multipurpose facilities. Using qualitative data from 15 in-depth participant interviews and 6-month on-site participant observations as well as a survey result, research revealed the physical, emotional, and social benefits that African American seniors reported as a result of their participation in various activities offered in a multipurpose senior center in Atlanta Georgia. The study presents a social context in which African American seniors constructed their new third age identities that is different from the wide-spread negative images depicted by the mainstream about this minority group. Findings from this study increase the knowledge about African American seniors' participation in multipurpose facilities and provide a better understanding for the diverse socio-economic backgrounds of African American seniors. Study results will have policy implications for a better development of senior centers for minority population in the United States for the promotion of productive and successful aging.     

The Development of a “Neighborhood in Solidarity” in Switzerland

ABSTRACT

This article presents a case study based on the “Neighborhood in Solidarity” (NS) methodology to illustrate its application in a locality of 8,000 inhabitants in Switzerland. This specific project is proposed to exemplify the global aim of the NS methodology. That aim is to increase the integration of elderly persons in societies in order to improve their quality of life. The case study demonstrates the enhancement of the capacity of the older people to remain actively engaged in their neighborhood. The article focuses on the creation of an autonomous community of empowered older people who can resolve their own problems after a 5-year project. The construction of the local community is presented throughout the six steps of the methodology: (1) preliminary analysis, (2) diagnostic, (3) construction, (4) project design, (5) project implementation, and (6) empowerment and with three degrees of involvement (community, participative, and integrative involvement). Performance and output indicators, quality indicators, and social determinants of health assess the development of the local project. The impacts of the projects which are illustrated in this specific example motivated this publication to inspire practitioners from other countries.