Beware of “Empty Nest Syndrome” after Chinese New Year for the Elderly

The Spring Festival is the biggest and most festive traditional festival in China, and those who look forward to this long vacation are not only office workers, but also old parents who are waiting for them at home. However, the happy days always pass too quickly, as if just adapted to the reunion has not yet enjoyed enough happiness, children and grandchildren and left. Restored the empty nest of the home also seems particularly cold, the mood of the elderly also turned from sunny to cloudy, often sitting in the dark do not know what to do. Some of the elderly in the emotional and psychological moment can not adapt to the children and grandchildren from the side of all fly away from the huge contrast, all of a sudden from the bustling sky into the “bleak, lonely” underground, empty-nested elderly people will produce “old age empty nest syndrome”, manifested in the following ways Loneliness, emptiness, loneliness, sadness, mental depression, often secretly crying, self-pity, such as frail and sick, mobility, the above negative feelings will be even heavier. Over time, it will accelerate their mental aging, and their ability to think and make judgments will decline rapidly, and even induce geriatric depression, senile dementia and other geriatric mental and psychological diseases. Empty Nest Syndrome is a syndrome that occurs when elderly people live alone after their children start their own families and live independently due to maladaptation, which is a kind of “adaptation disorder” in Chinese psychiatry and a kind of psychological crisis for the elderly. How can the elderly as soon as possible to get rid of the “elderly post-holiday empty nest syndrome”? May as well start from the following four aspects: Work routine dilution method After the festival, the festival lively, harmonious, pleasant scene and atmosphere faded, the elderly should immediately return to the previous “two people world” or “one person world” state of life and work, according to the previous life rules! They should organize their daily life in an orderly and step-by-step manner. The return of the routine can make the elderly quickly stabilize their minds, dilute the holiday atmosphere, and get out of the shadow of the “empty nest”. Hobbies dilute the method as soon as possible to pick up the usual life of a variety of hobbies and interests, such as fishing, walking, painting, twisting rice-planting songs, calligraphy, chess and cards, singing, paper-cutting, flowers, fish, tai chi, etc., and according to personal interests and hobbies, to develop a number of new hobbies, such as traveling, hiking, swimming, bowling, and so on. With hobbies and interests to dispel the heart of the post-holiday loneliness. Emotional dilution method less is the husband and wife old to accompany. After the festival, the family is left with only the “old couple”, at this time, the elderly should be more concerned about their partners, through the “chat” to further close the relationship between husband and wife. Outside the home, it is best to do “in and out”, “inseparable” – a companion around, the heart will be much more solid. Especially important is that, when a party to go out to activities, to try to bring the old partner, to avoid a party to go out to activities of a party to stay at home, so that the old man left behind to produce a “lonely geese difficult to support” feeling. Social dilution method Children to understand the empty nest elderly in the emotional susceptibility to bad moods, often with their parents through the phone for emotional and ideological exchanges. As a community, we should make use of all the conditions, as far as possible, to provide free activities for the elderly, and organize more activities suitable for the elderly to participate in, to dilute the post-holiday psychological loneliness in the social.