[Subtitle] When you are old, what are you most afraid of?
[Concurrent] People in Beijing
The saddest and most feared one must be loneliness.
Physically inconvenient, need children to take care of.
Family and friends left one after another.
When a person is old, he has no children to accompany him, or his life is rather poor.
[Subtitle] What do you think can bring happiness to the elderly the most?
[Concurrent] People in Beijing
Children go home, family reunion.
The children are relatively Anshun smooth.
Teach them how to use smart phones and how to use fresh electronic products. For them, they can feel that they are advancing with the pace of the times, not that they are backward. I think this makes them feel very happy.
[Subtitles] What can we do for the elderly?
[Concurrent] People in Beijing
We don’t have to tell (them) in advance if there is anything broken or something that the elderly usually wants to buy but is reluctant to buy, but to give them a surprise.
I took my parents out and traveled where they wanted to go.
The greatest love for the elderly is companionship.
[Explanation] Do you imagine your life in old age?
Have you ever understood the emotions and sorrows of the old people around you?
Statistics show that in China, the prevalence of depression in the elderly population over 65 is conservatively estimated to be 10%-15%, and the probability of developing depressive symptoms exceeds 20%.
[Concurrent] Yan Jiangling, Director of the 19th Ward, Department of Geriatrics, Beijing Huilongguan Hospital
I cried in my clinic, (asking) why?
He said that I exercise every day and my body is so good. I have a stroke, and then I can’t walk. I came in a wheelchair and lay on my desk crying, (saying) there was a year-round illness in our community. , He is pretty good so far, and then he's psychologically unbalanced.
In fact, it is because of the condition of old age that there is not enough psychological construction. In this case, depression is prone to occur, and even when it is serious, it may reach a state of depression.
[Explanation] Yan Jiangling told reporters that depression in the elderly is more difficult to identify and diagnose than depression in young people.
Young people’s depression usually manifests as being unable to eat, sleeping well, feeling meaningless in life, having thoughts of suicide, etc. The symptoms are more typical; however, depression in the elderly often manifests as suspicion that they are suffering from an incurable disease, whole body pain, etc., which are easily Judged as other senile diseases.
[Concurrent] Yan Jiangling, Director of the 19th Ward, Department of Geriatrics, Beijing Huilongguan Hospital
The old man I saw, in fact, the family thought he couldn't sleep and came to see a doctor, and then gave him four sleep medicines.
In fact, this old man is a depression (disorder). Last week, he took medicine to commit suicide again, but no one in his family thought he would be depressed. Even though he had committed suicide, none of the family thought He is depressed and thinks he is a sleep disorder.
[Explanation] The characteristics of senile depression that are difficult to be identified and diagnosed make the suicide success rate of elderly depression patients higher and make senile depression more dangerous.
[Explanation] According to Yan Jiangling, the high incidence of depression in the elderly is a very common reason that the elderly will have a sense of powerlessness for the decline of physical functions, and this sense of powerlessness is often not understood by young family members.
[Concurrent] Yan Jiangling, Director of the 19th Ward, Department of Geriatrics, Beijing Huilongguan Hospital
When a person gets old, many of his functions decline, and his ability to solve problems declines. When he can't solve them, he may be bored in his heart, but he can't solve them, and he can't let go, and feel depressed.
As a child, you will feel that there is nothing wrong with eating well, drinking well and sleeping well. You see, you still find unpleasant things all day, nothing to trouble you.
[Explanation] In addition, the loneliness caused by empty nests is an important social cause of depression in old age.
[Concurrent] Yan Jiangling, Director of the 19th Ward, Department of Geriatrics, Beijing Huilongguan Hospital
In the past, people were working (locally), and maybe they were reluctant to go a little far from home, but now, maybe only a small part of them work (locally), and there are also people from all over the motherland. There are all over the world.
[Explanation] Yan Jiangling said that the company of family and friends is a good medicine against depression in old age.
[Concurrent] Yan Jiangling, Director of the 19th Ward, Department of Geriatrics, Beijing Huilongguan Hospital
As a child, you may go back twice more when you are free, and then accompany you to talk together, chat together, and do housework together. If you are not free, you can video with him every day, or play No matter the phone, etc., various flexible methods are available.
【Empty Mirror Transition】
[Concurrent] People in Beijing
As long as the elderly are there, this home will be there. I hope that the elderly will live a happy, safe and healthy life.
(Yes) The elderly in the family just want to say that you have worked hard, and then you can enjoy life.
I hope they (the elderly) have their own hobbies, instead of just paying so much for their children.
Mom and Dad, I have prepared a surprise for you. I will go back tomorrow and we can be reunited. May you be healthy.
Reporter Wen Mengxin reports from Beijing
Editor in charge: [Li Yuxin]