How to help the elderly maintain a healthy lifestyle

The ways to help the elderly maintain a healthy lifestyle are: reasonable diet, moderate exercise and psychological balance.

1, reasonable diet

Balanced diet, you can eat more high-quality protein, which is conducive to improving memory; Supplementing vitamins and essential trace elements; Reasonable collocation, regular and quantitative meals; Keep food acid-base balance; Eat a light and salt-free diet.

2, moderate exercise

Life lies in exercise. Choose aerobic exercise, such as walking, jogging, dancing, swimming, Tai Chi, aerobics and ball games. At the same time, we must pay attention to choose the exercise mode that suits us according to our actual situation. At the beginning, you should not exercise too much, and you should master the principle of gradual progress.

3. Psychological balance

Psychological problems of the elderly: when they are troubled by diseases, they are often at a loss, and are prone to psychological characteristics such as anxiety, irritability, depression, loneliness and helplessness, and even pessimism. Keep a positive attitude and be happy and content; Stay social and do what you can; Make life full of interest and enjoy your old age.

The needs of the elderly

1, job requirements. Most retired people still have the ability to work and study, and there will be many ideas when they suddenly leave their jobs. If this kind of elderly people are not given the opportunity to work and study and cannot create conditions in this respect, their physical and mental health will be affected.

2. Dependent requirements. When people are old, they will feel lonely. They hope to get the care of the society, the care of the unit, the filial piety of their children, the communication of friends and the consideration of their wives. They long for the elderly to feel safe.

3. Harmonious demand. The old people want a harmonious family and environment. No matter what the family's economic conditions are, as long as young people respect and filial to the elderly, their families are harmonious, their neighbors are harmonious, and they respect and love each other and help each other, the elderly will feel warm and happy.