How to avoid getting geriatric depression?
- Facing retirement correctly. Retirement is a normal, inevitable process. Withdrawing from a busy and regular professional life and living a leisurely and irregular retirement life is a change in lifestyle and a change in social roles. For some very enterprising and patriotic seniors, it may be difficult to accept this fact for a while. However, as the saying goes, "Live and learn", when we retire, we will have a lot of time at our disposal, and we can still continue to learn. We can take part in some cultural activities according to our interests, such as reading, music, dancing, calligraphy, gardening, chess and so on. , not only enriches our spiritual life, but also cultivates our sentiments, and can also reduce loneliness and emptiness.
Watch your health. Eat right and exercise every day. For the elderly who smoke and drink for a long time, they should gradually reduce the amount and finally quit, because quitting smoking and drinking is the basic principle that should be followed to protect brain nerves, prolong life, and improve intelligence. Regularly go to the hospital for physical examination, encourage the elderly to participate in the community health survey, so as to achieve early detection and early treatment of diseases; more importantly, family members should patiently listen to the elderly's description of their mood and illness, so that the elderly can feel safe, thereby eliminating loneliness and fear , anxiety, depression on the body, improve the ability to resist diseases, and promote physical and mental health.
The company of family members is very important. Since the introduction of the one-child policy, there have been fewer pictures of children and grandchildren in the past. There are more and more empty-nesters living in urban high-rises and rural houses. It is good for children to earn money and honor their parents, but the spiritual food of the elderly should not be ignored. Usually take time to go home and have a look, communicate with them, and try to meet their needs. In order to prevent their children from worrying about themselves, parents often conceal their physical conditions on the phone. If they were not careful when they were young and did not go home for a long time, I am afraid that their parents' condition is already very serious.
- Buy yourself insurance. Before retirement, you must buy social insurance according to regulations. This is not only a guarantee for oneself after retirement, but also reduces the pressure of child support. If you have financial conditions, it is best to buy an insurance to prevent major accidents or delays in treatment due to unaffordable medical expenses. In old age, the negative impact of disease on psychology is long-lasting, and the depression caused by incurable diseases is more difficult to alleviate.
- Evaluate your health status realistically, maintain an optimistic and positive attitude towards life, treat life and death correctly, and establish a correct outlook on life and death. Elderly people who are overly worried about their health can go to a regular hospital for necessary examinations to eliminate anxiety and tension. Although old age is a process of physical decline, our psychology can continue to thrive. As long as we keep a young heart in our hearts, we will have a happy old age!