2022 'new age standard for the elderly' announced, after this age, you can be called 'elderly'
People have to experience in their whole life: marriage, childbirth, study, employment, migration, death. It is closely related to each person's age. It is an irresistible law of nature to age over time.
Many young people know the truth, but they don't take it to heart. They are only valued at a fixed age. When they are young, they learn to learn, and when they are old, they explore mysteries.
In 2022, the age standard for the elderly has been announced. After this age, it can be called the elderly.
It is well known that several main characteristics describe the elderly: graying hair, tooth loss, hearing loss, old age dizziness, limited mobility, sagging skin, aging skin.
Older people are defined as aging when they have these main characteristics, but some older people disagree with the standards others set for themselves and feel that they are young and not yet old.
With the improvement of living material conditions, most of the elderly do not look like the elderly, but in this age of appearance, how to judge the age standard of the elderly?
The World Health Organization recommends a standard age for the elderly:
Those under the age of 18 are minors.
Young people between the ages of 19 and 35.
3.36 to 50 years old are called prime-age people.
4.51~60 years old are called middle-aged and elderly people.
5.61~78 are called the elderly.
6.79~90 is called the elderly.
The elderly over the age of 7.90 are also known as the long-lived elderly.
With the continuous progress of society, most people are very concerned about diet, especially many elderly people are conscious of health care, age is only a representative number and cannot be equal to psychological age.
How to improve the quality of life in old age?
1. Exercise regularly.
For the elderly, after a certain age, their physical fitness begins to decline, the body organs and tissues also begin to decline, and their ability to accept anything also declines.
It's like an easy exercise to do when you're young. jump. In old age, they can no longer support this mobility. Their physical fitness is getting worse and worse. As calcium is lost, bones become more sparse and bone density decreases.
Therefore, the probability of the elderly suffering from cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases and bone diseases is much higher than that of ordinary people. Only exercise can effectively solve this problem.
After all, life lies in exercise. Through exercise, you can release the stress of the whole body, improve muscle capacity and cardiopulmonary function, stimulate bone secretion and joints, and maintain good health.
Exercise can also promote blood circulation, promote blood circulation, increase the speed of blood circulation in the whole body, reduce the occurrence of cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases, and prevent cerebral thrombosis.
When exercising, the elderly can choose relatively simple exercises (jogging) (playing tai chi) (fast running) (jogging) (swimming).
For example, jogging, you can freely choose a park with a beautiful environment, no time requirements, no environmental obstacles, exercise in the beautiful air, make people feel happier.
2. Healthy work and rest.
Sleep not only troubles young people, but also the elderly. Most 50- to 60-year-olds sleep lightly. Generally, the sleep time is maintained at about 5 to 6 hours a day, usually around 6 to 7 in the morning.
Most elderly people sleep late at night and wake up early in the morning. Although going to bed early and getting up early is good for health, the elderly have short sleep time and lack of physical rest.
Getting up early can affect the body's recovery and self-correction. It is recommended that the elderly maintain adequate sleep for 7-8 hours or 6-7 hours a day.
Only by maintaining adequate sleep can we repair and adjust body organs, repair damaged parts of the body, and prevent cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases and three high diseases.
through effective sleep. It can also improve your fatigue state. After a day of fatigue, the brain can get enough rest, adjustment, repair and improvement in sleep.
It is recommended that the elderly go to sleep before 22:00 in the evening, reduce the bad habit of staying up late, maintain the good habit of going to bed early and getting up early, and correct normal operation.
3. Regular physical examination.
With the changes in life and diet, more and more delicacies come into view. A range of high-calorie, high-fat, high-cholesterol foods such as fried chicken, hamburgers, barbecue, and hot pot.
The elderly are also gradually changing their dietary concepts. If they often eat such high-fat foods, it is easy to induce clinical symptoms such as cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases and blood viscosity.
With the development and improvement of medical technology, medical management has become more and more perfect, and various minor diseases and disasters can be treated in time.
The regular physical examination program launched by the hospital has prevented the deterioration of the disease to a certain extent. Many elderly people have the idea that medical treatment is contraindicated, thinking that as long as they do not go to the hospital for examination, there will be no disease.
Or there are some remedies for minor illnesses and minor disasters to treat diseases, but these only play a certain psychological role in consolidation.
The best way is to regularly go to the hospital for relevant physical examinations, find diseases during the physical examination, diagnose and treat them in time, and stifle the diseases in the cradle.
Extended extension - points for longevity in older adults .
Thick ears (indicating that many elderly people have longevity, which is related to the strong kidney qi in the body)
Thin waist (the longer the belt, the shorter the life expectancy, the people with thin waist are alive, about 94% are over 70 years old, and there are very few cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases)
Slightly obese patients (when investigating the weight and life expectancy of 5 million people, British scientists found that slightly obese patients have better antibody resistance to disease than orcs, so they live longer)
Baldness (Most boys are bald and energetic, with an average life expectancy of more than 80 years. Baldness is caused by the strong secretion of androgen in the body, and androgen is a male talisman)
The secret to longevity for centenarians
A centenarian in Changsha, 104 years old. Although he was full of gray hair, he was energetic, had a ruddy face, and looked young, looking like an old man in his 80s.
The old man said: Has he never seen a hospital in his life? The only time I went to the hospital was two years ago. Because I had cataracts, he always did not see a doctor or take medicine, because of some minor illnesses and minor disasters, he slowly recovered naturally.
The old man does not take any supplements in his daily life. One of the old man's long-term habits is to dig well water first thing every morning after getting up, boil it, put peanuts, sesame ginger tea and a cup of ginger tea.
This is also the drink he must drink every day. Some people think that drinking such tea can warm the stomach and prevent diseases, so they insisted on it for many years. However, the elderly are very careful about drinking tea. They only drink tea in the morning and don't drink it after 9 o'clock.