2024-01-26 20:48:35
Published on: Friday, January 26, 2024 – 10:40 PM | Last updated: Friday, January 26, 2024 – 10:40 PM
The feeling of loneliness and isolation from the world does not necessarily arise among the elderly from a reality that imposes itself if they are forced to live alone after the marriage of their children and the departure of friends. Rather, it is due to the decline of memory and the decline of some cognitive abilities.
This is the result confirmed by a Dutch scientific study that came in a report on memory loss (Dementia) published in the scientific journal Jourmal of Neurology & Paychiatey. In that study, which included monitoring important and specific factors among two thousand two hundred elderly people who live in the city of Amsterdam in the Netherlands and are between the ages of five. Sixty-eighty-five years. The decline in memory was behind the increase in the percentage of people suffering from loneliness, as they gradually isolate themselves from the world around them instead of trying to cling to it.
The decline of memory and the decline of cognitive abilities prevents the desire to integrate into society, perhaps due to the embarrassing situations that the elderly are exposed to in the face of a fast-paced society. There is also a parallel possibility raised by the study, which indicates that the loneliness of a person who lives alone dulls the sharpness of his senses and reduces the factors that stimulate his perception or call for his desire to remember things or confirm their existence.
The study gives, for example, that a failed marriage may bring to a person a dark feeling of loneliness even though he lives in an active society. Loneliness in this case is a heavy feeling that haunts a person even though he does not live alone. Rather, this feeling attacks him as part of suffering from nervous pressure that must be resisted.
A previous study records that pressures have less impact if a person resists them and resorts to trying to renew his social relationships and expand his circle of acquaintances.
The study advises those who suffer from loneliness, who have a conscious memory, or who suffer from initial problems, to pay attention to the devastating impact that this unpleasant feeling has on their lives.
Connecting with society in various forms, such as participating in charitable social activities, frequenting museums and art galleries, or watching movies and theater productions with acquaintances or friends, adopting new ideas and hobbies are all effective means of expelling those depressing feelings that can contribute to the development of cases of memory decline, whether It was memory loss or Alzheimer’s disease.
In fact, the problems of aging receive great attention in developed societies, to the point that it has now become known worldwide as a specialty of internal pathology that is concerned with everything related to aging and aging.
In our country, we are still at the beginning of the road, but there is a light at the end of the tunnel.
Loneliness may be better than a really bad housemate, as we used to say, but sharing, familiarity, and communication are undoubtedly better and have a stronger effect, especially with advancing age in the souls of all people.
May you all stay safe and may the days of joy last.
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