Empty nesters to pass can plant some vegetables and flowers to pass the time.
Most empty nesters live in the countryside, their daughters live in the men's side due to marriage, their sons may have joined the workforce and are too busy to work, and their sons may have purchased houses in the city and settled down, so they can't live beside the elderly for a long time. Empty nesters should take advantage of some of the favorable conditions at home, such as in the countryside, the elderly have a home base, can be reclaimed out of the home base, do not need much space, one point of land two points of land can be planted on some vegetables, such as eggplants, peppers, cucumbers, winter squash, paste melon and other vegetables, you can also plant some seasoning dishes, such as leeks, garlic. Do not need much physical work, both can exercise their own body, enrich their free life, but also can improve their own lives, eat fresh and safe and secure, eat time is very convenient, any time to pick, at any time to eat. You can also plant some flowers and plants, such as monarchs, osmanthus, fortune tree, mast flower, etc., usually carefully managed, watering and fertilizing, pruning, when the weather changes, seasonal changes, to transplant and general transport, is conducive to the body and mind of the elderly.
You can build some activity centers for the empty-nester elderly. Each village community, or settlement to establish an activity center for the elderly, when the elderly do not have things to do, you can drink tea in the senior center, read the newspaper, you can also play some small cards, play mahjong, physical activity. As an activity center, some recreational facilities can be added to open and move around for the elderly free of charge. The center can not be for profit, but for the old for free? You can practice calligraphy, play chess, write, read newspapers, and do some tai chi in the activity center. You can also provide a place for the elderly to dance, and in the evening, dance and get fit.
As a government department, it should provide multi-faceted training for empty nesters. Governments at all levels should form a system to provide training once or twice a month for the empty-nester elderly community residents, such as cultural knowledge training, elderly training, traffic safety, breeding flowers and plants and other kinds of training. Television videos should be provided free of charge to the elderly, so that they can live to be old, learn to be old, learn for all and learn for life. Can also provide computer knowledge training for the elderly, so that the elderly can go online to find information, read the news, and chat with family members on the Internet.? Especially for the elderly knowledge of safety, knowledge training in the use of electrical appliances, knowledge of fraud prevention, so that the elderly can learn to protect themselves. Utilizing the nine nine sun festival, for the empty nest elderly activities, cleaning for the elderly, for the elderly to carry out physical health checks.
The empty-nester elderly can also have time to visit their daughters, go out for a walk and see the outside scenery. As sons and daughters, work is busy, but also take time to go home to see, accompany the elderly, and the elderly chat, understand the elderly idea, care about the health of the elderly. And the old man and the old man to talk about, talk about some of their own life and work situation, what they have plans, say a little bit of the city of new things, interesting things.
People have old times, treat the elderly well. The whole society to care about the empty nest elderly.