What are the psychological pressures of the elderly living in the old-age care institutions?

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2024-11-18 14:24

  Old-age care institutions have become more and more common in China. In general, there is no care in the home. Old people who cannot take care of themselves will choose to stay in the old-age care institutions. If they leave their homes that have lived for many years, they will exert great pressure on the elderly.

  1: After the elderly stay in the old-age care institution, the strangeness of the living environment, coupled with the lack of understanding of the nursing staff, is not very clear about their own environment, leading to the anxiety of the elderly. The ability of the elderly to adapt to unfamiliar environments is inherently poor, so when they reach an unfamiliar environment, they become less vocal.

  2: Personal space is very important to a person's life, but if the old person stays in the old-age institution, he will leave his own living space for many years, from his own life to a collective life, and his privacy may be exposed. In the eyes of others, the staff of the organization can enter and exit at will. The old people will feel that their living space has been deprived, feel helpless and worried, and even refuse to leave their room, and they are in a state of high alertness.

  3: After living in the old-age care institution, the parents’ place at home before the old man ceased to exist, and it became the object of “management” here, so that the “central status” of the old man in the family was cancelled, especially Male elderly people, the style of parents at home no longer exists, some old people will be depressed or tempered.

  4: The old man feels that he is a burden to the society and the family after he is older, from the social master to the social dependent. Although the old-age institutions are old people, they all have their own life and work experience, but staying here means that their past has been finished. Such a situation can easily cause feelings of inferiority and uselessness for the elderly, making the elderly feel lost and lose confidence and even despair.

  5: After leaving home, the old man left his relatives and friends, and the organization needs to make friends again. However, because of his age, his self-care ability is reduced and his activity space is reduced. It is not easy to make new friends. The old man seems even more helpless. Sometimes the old man is not facing white hair and wrinkles, but the indifference and loneliness of the soul.

  6: As the age increases, the vision and hearing of the elderly will begin to decline slowly. This leads to the elderly having a lot of troubles in communication. The language communication of the elderly lacks accuracy and effectiveness, and the performance is irritable, irritable and uncooperative.

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