Middle-aged women (55+ years old)
The main life events faced at this age are: children starting a family, husband retiring home, deteriorating health, and various diseases. If family relationships are not handled well during the menopause. When you reach old age, you will encounter several situations. One is to turn attention to the grandchildren. This is the time when older people tend to over-satisfy their children’s needs in order to gain their grandchildren’s attachment to them. This creates conflict with the child’s mother and father; second is to turn their attention to their own children, because of the control and coddling of their own children, in the children in their thirties still grow up and can not leave their mother. Third, the attention is turned to itself. Because of the excessive concern for their own health, many mental illnesses find their way to them. Depression is a common one. It is more common in women. Chen Baoping, Department of Psychology, Dalian Seventh People’s Hospital
To solve the first situation, it is mainly important for the children’s generation to understand the psychological needs of the elderly. Make the elderly feel that they are respected, useful and cared for. When not arguing against the problem, the problem is solved in turn. The second condition is a bit more difficult and requires professional psychological intervention.
The third condition – geriatric depression – is a very common and easily misdiagnosed problem because it is a very common and easily misdiagnosed problem. Let’s go into more detail here. Geriatric depression is not only a series of manifestations such as depressed mood. It also manifests itself as some physical discomfort symptoms. For example, the body is hot, there is Qi moving in the body, it feels like there are bugs crawling, and the body is in pain. This kind of physical discomfort makes people suffer. However, the cause cannot be found by examination. In many hospitals, this is classified as a difficult disease. A lot of tests, a lot of medicine, and even some people who can not stand the pain asked for surgery. But this is obviously not going to work.
We have many elderly people have the experience of “being cheated”. They go to some places that sell health care devices and therapeutic instruments to experience the effects, and the results are very good. But when they buy them at home, they become useless. In the end, the children complained. From such things we can find the solution to the problems of the elderly in this period. That is “love”. In the sales office, the elderly people are treated with consideration, care and concern by the sales staff. There are people who are willing to listen to the “chatter” of the elderly. With this, what problems can’t be solved?
Chen Baoping