Due to fecundity declined, population ageing happening in most of developed countries. Not only society needs to deal with living condition of older people, the mental health issues is another key points that we should not neglect on. There are few reasons to lead older people having mental issues, one of the most common can be loneliness.
Older people usually starts to feel lonely right after they retired from workplace, it can be taken as they lose inner resources while their children grown up and having their life at somewhere else. Not even mention that some older people might be single for a period of time by themselves or they have no partner in their life. Once they left the job that they for work years, it is understandable that older people feel like spiritual they rely on was took away from them, due to career is all they have in this particular situation. Another reason that causing loneliness of older people after retirement can be they have no intention or resources to develop new life path. Most of people who fight for their life-time in long time might lost interest or energy to build new one while there are plenty of efforts need to be put in. Noticeable that older people are more likely to stay in comfort zone than manage their retirement life in another way round. I have my closet family who retired 3 years ago, and before his retirement, he was running own business for over forty years. However, he is unable to build his life without working and prefer to stay at home even though he felt lonely time to time.
With the intention of helping older people get rid off the feeling of loneliness, it is not a bad idea to sent older people to retirement home where a place allow people to communicate. Retirement home is one of the suitable suggestion due to older people can share many common topic with each other and less conflict with their own family while group of older people mostly live in same era.Another action we can do about is organise event or create activities for certain age range of people within community for these elder people who lived together with families. It can be seen as provide opportunities and resources to encourage elder people build a new life after they retirement in figuring their hobbies and interest due to they might feel isolated once they retired, especially when technology develop in fast pace, reducing connection with each other.
Providing that elder people spend their lifetime to contribute in society and our nation, I believe everyone can be part of helping them to develop a new life and taking care of their mental health at the same time. Even if they are not exactly our blood relatives, I think it helps to create a better society if we able to show appreciation in building their last phase of life.