Types of Socializing Through Dinning in Care Institutions and Strategies of Social Work Services:A Survey of Self-Reliant Elders in Institution Y in City B
From the perspective of Simmel's gastronomic sociology,this paper explored the interaction between dinning and social interaction among older adults in a care institution named Y in the City of B through field observation and in-depth interviews.The diversified social performance among them indicates that mechanism of social connection among older adults is different in those dinning events.According to the materiality of dinning and the functionality of socializing,social dinning in care institutions can be divided into four types:problem solving,emotion expression,self-centeredness and sharing.This paper proposed corresponding strategies for each type.
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