What are the six health benefits for the elderly?

At present, the "six health" commonly mentioned in the field of elderly health in China mostly refers to the six dimensions of mental health, mental health, physical fitness, healthy eating, walking, and healthy communication. In some areas, the health care system and elderly care institutions will make targeted adjustments when implementing services, such as replacing healthy food with health care and adjusting walking to health and safety. The core is to set the full-dimensional health needs of the elderly at the three levels of physiological, psychological, and social functions. They have long jumped out of the traditional understanding of "no disease means health."

I have been doing elderly health services in the street for almost 5 years. When I first introduced the Six Health concept, many adults came over and asked if they were doing some new health gimmick. Last time I met Aunt Zhang, who lives in Building 3, she is 72 years old. After her husband left for the past two years, she has been stuck at home every day. She rarely goes out except to buy groceries. She always said, "As I get older, my whole body is full of problems, and I just make do with it day by day." There are no major problems in the physical examination except for a little high blood pressure. However, she always feels tight in the chest, and her forgetfulness is getting worse. She often forgets to take the groceries after paying for them. At that time, our community had just organized a small activity called Six-Physical Check-in. We got her to sign up, and we didn’t set any hard tasks for her. Jianxin required her to laugh three times a day, and Jianzhi learned a simple drawing or memorized two poems. For fitness, she walked downstairs for 10 minutes every day. For fitness, she was asked to eat 3 types of cereals every week. For hiking, she was taught to wear non-slip shoes and to cross the road more slowly. For fitness, she was taught to wear non-slip shoes and to cross the road more slowly. For fitness, she had to chat with her old neighbor once a week. I have persisted like this for more than three months. The last time I met her, she was leading a group of old sisters to prepare for an exhibition of handicrafts for the elderly in the community. Her voice was bright, and she said that her blood pressure was now stable and her forgetfulness was much better. "It turns out that when you are old, you don't just have to wait and get through life, you can still live like this."

In fact, there is no unified standard answer to the six health issues. We will also adjust the content when serving different groups. For example, there are many left-behind elderly people in mountainous areas, who are prone to falls when traveling and are easily defrauded. So we replaced hiking with health and safety, focusing on preventing falls, preventing fraud, and safety knowledge on fire and electricity at home.； There are many disabled and semi-disabled elderly people in nursing homes, so we replace healthy food with healthy food, and focus on teaching accompanying family members how to provide rehabilitation care and how to use medications rationally. All of this is based on the actual needs of the elderly. We do not say which version is absolutely correct.

An old expert said before that it was quite right. In the past, when we looked at the health of the elderly, we just looked at the physical examination report, just like mending a barrel. Whichever index was high would be lowered. Now the idea of ​​Six Health is more like building a comfortable small yard for the elderly. Not only must there be people who can A house that is sheltered from wind and rain (physical health), a place to bask in the sun (emotional comfort), old friends with whom you can chat (social interaction), eat well, walk safely, and do something you like when you have nothing to do. This is true health. We just conducted an annual survey last week, and the happiness scores of the elderly who continued to participate in six health-related activities were 38% higher than those who did not participate. Many elderly people said that they now understand that health in old age is never about the absence of diseases.