Among many factors affecting mental aging, personal psychological characteristics and social psychological factors play a relatively important role.
How should the elderly delay mental aging?
1. Take part in physical exercise: Physical exercise can not only improve and enhance the physiological function of the elderly, enhance their physical fitness, and increase their disease resistance, but also enrich their later life, add fun to life, make them refreshed, happy, enhance their confidence, and enhance their courage and interest in actively arranging their later life, thus enhancing their psychological function.
However, the items selected for physical exercise must be suitable for one's physical condition, otherwise the loss outweighs the gain.
2. Dealing with interpersonal relationships: For the elderly, the most important interpersonal relationship is family relationship.
In family life, family members should live in harmony and have harmonious feelings.
3. Maintain a positive mental state: A positive mental state, mainly enterprise, hope and ideal, is of great significance for the elderly to prevent mental aging and maintain mental health.
A person who is enterprising, idealistic, hopeful and hardworking can be old and full of vitality.
It is best for the elderly to face up to reality, look forward to the future, look back less on the past, watch more comedy programs, attend more happy parties, "always smile, always smile", remain calm and optimistic, be happy and contented, say nothing wrong, and avoid being old-fashioned.
4. Use your brain and think with your heart: the brain is the headquarters that dominates all organs of the human body. The aging of the brain will inevitably lead to the aging of various organs, and the brain has a great influence on people's knowledge, wisdom and thinking.
Therefore, the elderly should use their brains more, so that brain cells and tissues and organs will not shrink.
What is the standard of mental health of the elderly?
Keep in touch with the external environment.