Zeman P
Deutsches Zentrum für Altersfragen, Berlin.
Z Gerontol Geriatr. 1998 Oct;31(5):313-8. doi: 10.1007/s003910050052.
Social work for the elderly in a demographical ageing society is not justified per se, but has to prove its utility under the altering social conditions of the changing age-structure. In the field of practice, this has led to an increasing need for professional orientation and to searching for profiles of performance with greater attraction. As manifold as the target groups are the spectra of social work for the elderly is also manifold in its content and methods. Nevertheless, we are able to recognize some general orientations and strategies, which are conceptual adaptions from social work in general, cultural work and educational work--combined with fundamental supplies of social gerontological knowledge. In this sense, social work, for the elderly--in its most advanced realms--should be integrated into an ageing-policy concept, which is of relevance for the society as a whole.
在人口老龄化社会中，老年社会工作本身并无正当性可言，而是必须在年龄结构变化所带来的不断改变的社会条件下证明其效用。在实践领域，这导致了对专业定位的需求日益增加，并促使人们寻找更具吸引力的工作模式。老年社会工作的目标群体多种多样，其内容和方法的范围也同样多样。然而，我们能够识别出一些总体的方向和策略，这些是从一般社会工作、文化工作和教育工作中进行的概念性调整，并结合了社会老年学的基础知识。从这个意义上说，老年社会工作——在其最先进的领域——应被纳入一个对整个社会都具有相关性的老龄政策概念之中。
