1. Exercise more
Retired bodies need more exercise, and regular outdoor exercise every morning or evening can do wonders for your health. Even low-intensity exercise can have a positive impact on blood pressure, heart and other health. Swimming, cycling, fishing, walking and other sports can be tried. Regular exercise workouts have the following benefits:
Mental health: exercise releases hormones called endorphins, which can have a positive impact on mental health.
Cognitive function: Regular exercise reduces the risk of cognitive deterioration.
Disease prevention: exercise can reduce the risk of heart disease, stroke, high blood pressure, diabetes and even more serious diseases.
Reduced risk of falls: you're less likely to fall when you exercise regularly. If you do fall, regular exercise reduces the risk of serious injury.
Reduce stress: Exercise is a great way to relieve stress, and regular exercise can help you feel less tense.
2. Connect more with friends and family and make new friends
When you're at work, there's a good chance that you won't be able to connect with your friends and family as much as you'd like to, but after you retire, that's no longer an issue.
Research shows that keeping in touch with family and friends on a regular basis can help prevent memory loss.
Greet each other more often, whether by voice or video, to your friends and family. Even take the time to visit them at home.
Social interaction is vital to your health, so make new friends from all walks of life. Join groups, clubs, which can help you find people who have **** the same hobbies to talk to.
3. Learn new skills
As the saying goes, "you learn as you go", and the act of learning new skills and acquiring new information can help keep your mind sharp and prevent degeneration.
You can learn to do crafts, fishing, painting and writing, knitting, learning a musical instrument, woodworking, photography, cooking ......
4. Pet ownership
Pet ownership is very helpful for seniors for a number of reasons:
Having a pet can be fun for seniors, and studies have shown that this relationship built between people and their pets may far outweigh the joy that other entertainment brings us.
With children getting married and leaving home, and spouses and friends and relatives of the same generation passing away, more and more elderly people have to live in loneliness, elderly people have pets can reduce the sense of loneliness, and even, some elderly people take pets as a substitute for children.
In addition, serving pets and taking them for walks, which invariably increases the amount of exercise for the elderly, will obviously be beneficial to the health of the elderly.
5. Work again on your own time and terms
For some people, retirement can lead to discomfort. If this is the case, then you may want to consider working again. Of course a lot of this depends on your personal conditions. You can work as a consultant and do part-time work ......
Research has found that doing something short or temporary after retirement can slow down the psychological discomfort of retirement, make the body functions of the elderly function normally, reduce disease, and benefit health and longevity.