The mental health problems of the elderly are increasingly prominent. How to improve the mental health level of the elderly?

Know yourself correctly and set achievable goals. Old people should re-evaluate their abilities after retirement and clearly realize their abilities after retirement. According to the actual situation of one's own ability, on the premise of ensuring health, arrange life reasonably and participate in various activities. Setting goals should be difficult. Don't belittle yourself for no reason, underestimate your ability, think that you have nothing, treat yourself negatively, and don't blindly improve yourself. Put forward too difficult goals, set practical goals, believe in yourself, achieve your goals through your own abilities, and get success and satisfaction.

Actively learn and try new things. People's memory ability and cognitive ability decline with age. Some old people feel that their learning ability has declined under these circumstances, and that learning is more difficult than before. They are unwilling to take the initiative to learn some new knowledge. Therefore, it is necessary to remind the elderly that they can try new things at any time, regardless of their age. Therefore, the elderly should update their knowledge through various forms and ways, care about social development and progress, keep pace with the times, find the joy of life in their studies, cultivate their hobbies and enjoy a happy retirement.

Increase health care knowledge and calmly deal with aging and diseases. When people get old, their physical functions will gradually decline, which is a natural law, and the elderly should face it correctly. Old people should not worry too much about the decline of physical function, because it is easy to cause anxiety and increase psychological burden; At the same time, we can't ignore the decline of physical function and take a negative attitude towards the changes of physical function, which is irresponsible to ourselves. We old people should correctly understand the decline of physical function, adjust our mentality, adopt effective methods to deal with physical changes by learning relevant medical care knowledge and medical knowledge, face them positively and optimistically, and enjoy a happy life.

Pay attention to the mental health of the elderly, provide material and psychological support for the elderly, and minimize their mental health problems. Social support has a great influence on the mental health of the elderly. If the elderly get a lot of high-quality social support, few people will have psychological problems and generally have a good mental state. On the contrary, if the elderly do not get high-quality social support, many people will have psychological problems and their mental state is generally poor. Therefore, the whole society should care for the elderly, help them and improve their mental health.