As children, it is necessary to treat the elderly this way.
First, encourage the elderly to continue to learn.
People in old age, I'm afraid the least favorite thing to do is to learn. Brain is not working, limbs are not hard, live one day to earn one day, which still have the mind to learn.
We all know the "Van Gogh Grandma" Chang Xiufeng, is an authentic rural woman, can not read, after the death of her husband, was received by the son of Guangzhou, legs and feet, language, life is not used to.
She accompanied her granddaughter every day, and when she told her granddaughter a story, she would draw the images in the story with crayons in order to make it easier for the child to understand. Her daughter-in-law, who studied art, discovered her drawings and encouraged her to paint, and since then she has become attached to the brush, with the countryside she knows so well in every picture.
In 2007, Chang held a solo exhibition in Hong Kong and published a book of her paintings for sale, with the proceeds going to impoverished areas.
The city understands her nostalgia, and she understands the city's prosperity.
There is a proverb that says: "Live and learn.
This way the elderly can better integrate into society and feel the joy of life.
Sons and daughters should encourage the elderly, pick up the interests and hobbies of their youth, and in their twilight years, they will have fun, learn and be productive in their old age.
Second, encourage the elderly to participate in group activities.
The elderly are too attached to the existing habits, it is difficult to adapt to the new environment, rigid stereotypes, speed loss, tend to be conservative.
Some scientific experiments have shown that playing mahjong can improve the cognitive ability of the elderly.
Sons and daughters may wish to find a few parents familiar with the people, let them sit together to rub mahjong chat.
Elderly people have poor balance and are prone to falling.
The hippocampus in the brain is responsible for memory and controlling a person's sense of spatial orientation.
Scholars at the University of Magdeburg in Germany conducted an 18-month experiment on 26 healthy seniors aged 63-71.
The results showed that the hippocampal area volume increase in the dancing group was wider and more obvious. Meaning, dancing improves balance in the elderly. In addition, it also has a special effect on regulating mood, reducing depression and anxiety and loneliness and loss. It has a good effect on the enhancement of bone density and prevention of osteoporosis in menopausal and menopausal women, slowing down cellular aging and improving cardiovascular function.
Why don't you shout out to the elderly to go square dancing!
Third, more with the elderly.
Adult sons and daughters will generally think that the elderly parents through the vicissitudes of life, there is nothing they can not withstand, loneliness, loneliness, aging, illness, they will look down.
This is not true.
People in old age, physiological and psychological results of the huge changes, mental depression, cognitive degradation, physical decline, memory loss, and the threat of death, these changes they are also the first time to experience, they will also be fear, despair.
But these changes are often ignored by children, or taken for granted and not heard, not asked, not cared about, not taken into account.
Can remember the idol's fetish, but do not know that their mother is allergic to seafood; can be a plane to meet the big names to change planes, but can not afford to take the bus home to see their parents; for a certain star to break up the tears, but do not know that the family in the thoughts of the cold weather to come to their own whether or not to add clothes.
The old man retired alive after the time, we only a few days, but we still do not know how to cherish.
Bring your children home often, talk to your mom about the worries of life, and talk to your dad about things at work. Give mom a brush of chopsticks and wash the dishes, and give dad a whack on the back and a rub on the shoulders. The old man is not trying to children for the family to do much contribution, a lifetime of total worry on the ask a peace and quiet.
Don't let the old man should be free in his old age by the children and grandchildren, more sympathetic to the old man, give them some time, let them gracefully and calmly old.