当前我国老龄化趋势加剧，在全球范围内，我国老龄化速度较快，且将在长期保持较高增速。2019年中共中央、国务院印发《积极应对人口老龄化中长期规划》，标志着应对老龄化已成为一国战略。在这一背景下，老年人的心理健康状况成为值得深切关注的话题。老年人社会网络关系到他们是否具有足够的社会支撑，关系到老年人的心理健康。本课题将关注老年人的心理健康。
大量的研究已经表明：保特心理健康不仅仅是老年人个人的事，它与社会交往系统。或者说社会支持网络有着密切关系。而这种支持网络的建构与整个社会的福利发展又是密切相关的。进一步的研究表明.社会支持作为维系老年人心理健康的重要变量，主要不是取决于其社会交往和社会支持的数量和范围，而是取决于其质量。即在关键时刻、紧急时刻，老年人渴望关照、需要他人帮助的时候，是否能从可信赖的人那里获得支持。对于一个老年人来说，如果他(她)确信，或者说在很大程度上相信.当自己需要帮助的时候他(她）总是可以得到值得信赖的人和社会机构提供的帮助。这样就能有效地缓解其焦虑，就能保证其拥有良好的心理感觉和状态。因而，对于一个老年人来说，如果当别人需要帮助的时候，他(她)能够借助社会支持网络来提供帮助.这显然也是有助于心理健康的。
At present, China's aging trend is aggravated, and China belongs to the faster aging countries in the world, and will maintain a high growth rate in the long term. In 2019, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and The State Council issued the National Medium - and Long-term Plan for Actively Dealing with Population Aging, indicating that dealing with aging has become a national strategy. In this context, the mental health of the elderly has become a topic of deep concern. The social network of the elderly is related to whether they have enough social support, and is related to the mental health of the elderly. This topic will focus on the mental health of the elderly.
Numerous studies have shown that the mental health of the elderly is not only a matter of the individual, it is related to the social communication system. Or social support networks. The construction of this support network is closely related to the welfare development of the whole society. Further research showed that. As an important variable to maintain the mental health of the elderly, social support is not mainly determined by the quantity and scope of social interaction and social support, but by its quality. That is, in critical times, emergency times, when the elderly are most eager for care and need help from others, whether they can get support from trusted people. For an old person, if he or she is convinced, or believes to a great extent. He or she can always rely on trustworthy people and social institutions to provide help when he or she needs it. In this way, it can effectively relieve their anxiety and ensure that they have a good psychological feeling and state. Therefore, for an elderly person, if he or she is in need of help, he or she can use the social support network to provide help. It's obvio
usly good for your mental health, too.