Mom got older: tips for an adult daughter

2024 Author: James Gerald | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 14:00

Recently, fellow colleagues have begun to complain more and more often in social networks about … mothers. They say, oh, this older generation, 65+, behaves like unreasonable children, they don't follow a diet, you can't drag them to the gym or for a walk in the park, they sit in front of the TV all day, fortunately, a pensioner doesn't have to go to work. But cholesterol and high blood pressure have long been! However, even the tests in the polyclinic, let alone change their eating habits and take up the prevention of age-related diseases, - you can't force mothers. So the sores come to them ahead of time. And then old age with serious health problems is not far off. Where do thirty-year-old Russians go in search of a recipe for fighting mother's aging? Online, of course.

Caring daughters are looking for answers to all the same questions on the forums: what to do and how to be interested, annoying with silly remarks?

You can only drag such ladies to the gym on the lasso. And everyone needs to do something with this … But what?

In addition, from sitting in front of the TV with tea-buns-sandwiches-sweets, the majority of women of mature age at a great speed resort to extra pounds (and cholesterol pressure is off scale), and they do not want to hear anything, from moderate abstinence in food and walks in the fresh refuse to air, and sometimes scandal. They say, I feel sorry for the poor pensioner for the cake, if I die, I will cry … You can only drag such ladies to the gym on the lasso. And everyone needs to do something with this … But what?

With mom at doctors: why and why

How can 30-40-year-old successful daughters help their retired mothers not to age ahead of time? And what diseases and problems with physical and mental health should women aged 65+ be afraid of, what should they be especially careful of, what should they pay special attention to? This is what Karine Kondakhchan, the therapist of the Yauza Clinical Hospital, recommends:

After 60 years, it is necessary to regularly measure blood pressure, pulse rate, control the level of cholesterol in the blood, undergo annual medical check-ups, use dosed physical activity, do not carry heaviness, walk more, it would be good to go swimming.

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At this age, women need to beware of diseases of the cardiovascular system: hypertension, coronary heart disease, atherosclerosis of blood vessels, including cerebral vessels (dizziness, memory loss, sleep disturbances are possible).

Also, 65-year-old ladies need to be wary of diseases of the musculoskeletal system: joints and spine; osteoporosis. And there may be painful sensations in the joints, bones, chest along the ribs, in the spinal column, both during exercise and at rest.

You need to visit a doctor and check if there are any diseases (primarily cancer) of the mammary gland, seals and painful sensations in it. Also, the mandatory program includes checking the state of the thyroid gland (be sure to check with an endocrinologist about diabetes).

A woman aged 65+ should pay attention to the following indirect signs of "problems" in the body:

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• weakness,
• drowsiness,
• regular increase in blood pressure,
• increased fatigue,
• cardiopalmus,
• pointless feeling of anxiety and fear,
• increased thirst
• increased sweating
• profuse urination.

It is important to remember that at this age, diseases of the genitourinary system often occur (cancer, prolapse of the uterus, vaginal walls). Possible urinary incontinence, frequent urge to urinate, discharge from the genital tract, pain in the lower abdomen, itching and dryness in the genital tract.

At the age of 65+, gum disease (bleeding, feeling pain while eating or drinking), age-related skin changes, physical inactivity, and the appearance of excess weight are possible. You need to regularly visit a gynecologist, endocrinologist, cardiologist, therapist, neurologist, dentist, cosmetologist.

Women over 65 are recommended to eat in small portions, up to 4-5 times a day, with a low carbohydrate content, the use of fish, fish products, liquids up to 1.5-2 liters per day, flax seed oil. It is necessary to reduce (or eliminate them completely) the use of sweets, salt and salty foods, animal fats and baked goods. It is also necessary to do gymnastics, which is selected individually, depending on the existing health problems (breathing exercises are not contraindicated).

Don't lose interest in life

But how to captivate mothers with work on their health, return them to their former interest in life? These recommendations are as simple as the world, psychologists are sure. Helping elderly mothers requires love and endless patience from adult children. Only then will the children come up with new activities for the mother to their liking, will interest her with a morning jog or an evening walk, help to restore ties with friends, and maybe they will find new friends or a lover (of course, in the absence of a husband).

Helping elderly mothers requires love and endless patience from adult children.

My friend, a theater journalist, suffered a stroke at the age of 80 and, retaining a clear mind and a gift from God, for six months diligently paced her paralyzed leg, worried that she could not attend premieres of performances, and therefore write about them.

Of course, among the ingredients of the Makropulos remedy, the elixir of youth, is not only a favorite work. Let us recall the cheerful and fit American retired women who know how to enjoy all the advantages of their age. And the inhabitants of Europe? Have you noticed, if, of course, you watched "Purely English Murders", how often (as if on purpose) in the English television series were demonstrated love and sexual relations between people, in our, Russian, view, the deeply elderly, who should only be interested in raising grandchildren and knitting? socks? So, maybe not from a 65-year-old woman you need to demand vigor of body and spirit, sanity and positive, but from your generation and yourself - to change the stereotypes of perception of a 65+ person, especially if this person is a mother? Then she too will feel young, healthy and beautiful. And he wants to be just that, taking all measures to preserve health, beauty and mental activity.