Psychological care of the elderly.doc

 PAGE \* MERGEFORMAT 4 Psychological care of the elderly Abstract With the social progress and economic development, China’s population, the average life expectancy of a gradual extension of the degree of aging of the population is increasing, the elderly, mental health problems are also more and more medical care, the work of the fox’s attention. How to improve the mental health of older persons, so that the elderly in the state of physical and mental pleasure to spend their last years of life, has become an important content of Elderly Mental fox. Solve their psychological problems, for the elderly to have a healthy body and sound mind has a very important significance, but also the community has become an important part of the work neglected. Keywords: Elderly Mental Psychological Care The elderly with increasing age the body gradually aging, all were still on a straight line down, such as loss of appetite, misuse, and impaired memory and cognitive function, insomnia, decreased visual acuity, ears dereliction of duty, hair white, immune dysfunction, etc. . These are the normal physiological changes in the elderly, and accompanied by health status and social environment changes, the elderly will be more or less have some psychological changes, the emergence of some mental health problems, community care for the elderly in these characteristics , the psychology of the elderly care and guidance to improve the mental health of the elderly and quality of life. Psychological problems of the elderly A sense of loss The elderly due to changes in social roles, psychological will produce a sense of loss, which showed two kinds of emotions: Some silent widowed language, facial expressions apathy, depression, indifferent to everything; some irritability, easily lost his temper, right not bear the sight of things around for a bit small and the temper. 2 loneliness Because the elderly widowed, single, retired, interpersonal reduction, social and family status chan