What is the common senior citizen like? Take the grandchildren drink tea, read the newspaper walk the dog, square Tai Chi dance together. Yes, this is the physical condition of some of the elderly. What about those who are not in good health? Three days to run to the hospital, at home is also frowning, want to exercise, but the body does not allow. The amount of activity is slightly larger, will be chest tightness and shortness of breath.
This is just the difference in physical condition. The difference between the superficial and easy to distinguish, the inner needs of the heart? Very few people pay attention to it.
The concern for children is much higher than the concern for parents. It has been said that the more one goes to the end of one's life, the more one seems to go back to the beginning. Intellectual and physical strength deteriorate, and the control of emotions moves closer to that of an infant or toddler, and this is particularly evident in people with Alzheimer's disease. They need attention like a child.
But the reality is that their needs are not being met. Few of their children pay attention to the mental state of their aging parents. The first thing you need to do is to get your hands dirty. Often, if the parents are well, then routine greetings will suffice. Only if the parents are sick, they will be anxious and nervous, and will be more companion and communication.
So, for the elderly, sometimes it is only when they are sick that they get attention from their children. When they are in good health, their children pay little attention to them.
But what about their lives?
There is no work, there is no center of gravity, there are only a few things to pass the time. The next step is to make sure that you have the best possible chance of getting through the rest of your life.
If you love to dance, play chess, practice tai chi, or play mahjong, if you suddenly have a brain attack, you can't go back to your original state after treatment, and you can't go back to your original hobbies, the rest of your life, how are you going to get through it?
Everyone's life, there will be that ten years, or even decades.
Everyone's life will have that ten years, or even decades. You have gray hair, your eyes are cloudy, you can't move, children are busy, then, how to spend the rest of the long life?80 years old, 90 years old, what is the expectation of life?
Some people live a wonderful and elegant, and age has nothing to do. But, after all, is the vast minority. Most older people, do not know how to rest the rest of their lives.
I hope that when my generation turns 80, it still feels that life is meaningful, there is something to look forward to and have fun.
I have a dream, secretly planted in my heart, to water it and grow it, to try to fertilize it.
Whether it's empty nesters, or left-behind seniors, whether it's physical health, or mental health, I look forward to the day when a different kind of old age begins.