Authors : Rifat R. Fakhrutdinov, Rezida A. Fakhrutdinova and Iskander E. Yarmakeev
Abstract: The study deals with theoretical aspects of social and psychological rehabilitation of elderly people in a nursing home and also the results of a pilot study on the implementation of comprehensive, integrated program that includes socio-educational, socio-household and socio-cultural components. The study identified and tested the forms, methods and technologies improving the socio-psychological state of the elderly. This study presents a multiple number of basic concepts and categories of the issue research. The social and psychological aspect of rehabilitation aims to use all remaining resources of an individual. At that the main task is “not to get rid of a problem” which a client has but learn to live as much as possible using compensatory possibilities of mentality and personality traits. The need to develop and implement specific approaches, forms and methods of social work with older people is determined by the following factors: an increase of older people proportion in the population, the change of an old person social status, the termination or restriction of employment, the transformation of values, lifestyle and communication and the emergence of various problems in social, domestic and psychological adaptation to new conditions. Within the implementation of a pilot- experimental a variety of complex research techniques was used to ensure the reliability of the results. The results of research-experimental work proved the validity of the study hypothesis.
Rifat R. Fakhrutdinov, Rezida A. Fakhrutdinova and Iskander E. Yarmakeev, 2015. Social and Psychological Rehabilitation of Older People in Nursing Homes. The Social Sciences, 10: 1968-1974.