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feel lonely, helpless to the society and lose hope in life

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Elderly always think that they are low productivity, make no contribution to the family and become the burden of the youngsters.
Chinese get used to 報喜不報優, this prevents them from seeking for assistance even they are in need.

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Kind of related to the idea that one’s value is determined by his/ her contribution to the society (collectivism)
so when one considers himself to be not contributing to the society, he finds himself useless and thus eventually develop into stressful thoughts.

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The government and some organizations should pay more attention to the retire person. Because social support is quite critical for elderly people to cope with their mental illness, physical health problems, and interaction with other people in society.

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lost of contribution to society or family let them feel depress, lack of social interaction and seldom to express feelings too.

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The elderly is also responsible for taking care of grandchildren and offers to help when the children is in trouble. However, the elderly will feel themselves like a burden when they need help from their children.

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Chinese people implicitly talk about love, and there are relatively few intimate behaviours such as hugging their loved ones. After retirement, the elderly often stay at home alone and feel neglected and lonely. Even if other family members are at home for reasons of Chinese culture, it is more difficult to feel the straightforward care from other family members.

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being weak & fragile is like a negative label in chinese context, so elderly tend not to seek help or rely on others

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They are silent and thoughtful.
Have jobs and do something interesting.

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The older generation always thinks that their ideas are right. They can't keep pace with the times and learn new things and it is difficult to keep up with the changes of the times.

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collectivism-afraid of bothering friends and think of others, so they rather stay alone than socialize with others

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Limited space in local elderly home even with help with volunteers it’s difficult and take a lot of effort to open their heart to

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Do things independently without causing trouble with others；rarely ask for help prefer to slove it by themselves；High social pressure，highly competitive.

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Tradition foregrounds continuous social contribution even in old age, e.g., taking care of children, rather than "just enjoy your life" so when the elderly no longer find them at work, they might feel idle, useless, or empty, especially in the condition of chronic pain, with indefinite suffering. Then they might consider suicide.

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Elders are seldom to show their feelings

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A man who just retired has some frictions with his wife. He is upset but because he is afraid of bothering others he avoids to talk to friends and keeps himself isolated

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Some ideas related to “dont 累人累物”
Make elderly dont rely on someone thought it is troubling others.
Also express some negative emotion to other to effect other emotions (散播負能量）

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Chinese culture always talk about 自力更生，it is shameful to be taken care by others, elderly are proud of not taking 綜緩

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Lose the interactions between others

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Elderlies have less social contribution, just spend their retirement without much meaning 

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Elderlies have less social contribution, just spend their retirement without much meaning 

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Loneliness,especially when they lost their other half

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elderly people more like think themselves as a burden to family, they afraid of making troubles to family members .

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Chinese have their ideal dreams of having all their children taking care of them when they get old. But it may stress the real needs and lifestyle of their children a lot.

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Chinese’s “Hard-working spirit” makes people devote themselves to work but neglect family and personal needs. When retired, they lose focus. Seldom do Chinese advocate “work-life-balance”

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death is a bad topic
people would leave patients if they know they get disease
people who don‘t work are useless
60 should be retired
man should be independent

cause elders feel distress when they retire, get ill and
communicate in terms of death

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They through they are useless after retirement. And pain made them lost their meaning in life.

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- old people no longer have high value (i.e. "useful") for others
- they can "rest" (hence, forego a more active lifestyle)
- don't want to open up about their feelings

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How family members can provide the support

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When they felt lonely, they may not want to find and tell the others, as they were afriad they will make some troblem to the others

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When they felt lonely, they may not want to find and tell the others, as they were afriad they will make some troblem to the others

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May think they have nothing to do and think their life are meaningless 

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May think they have nothing to do and think their life are meaningless 

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Then want to die

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Don't want to border others
Feel useless when others help them

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Expressing  negative emotion is weaker people.

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- Social Interaction & Social Support - from the cleaner and also at “Elderly Land”
- anti-depressants can help with the more severe cases
- part time work -> source of motivation & good work-life balance
- engage in activities to re-spark their interest in life
- to prevent depression, they need to develop new interests earlier
- injecting more positive experiences in life
- the key is perspective - how u decide to view retirement

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do not want show weakness

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How they may lose the purpose of living

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Living is hope

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Make them be afraid of death and think old person is useless

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Make them be afraid of death and think old person is useless

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How their retirement could affect their emotions…

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Felt embarrassed, don’t want to face others,  isolated themselves.
Increase the risk of committing suicide.

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The culture makes people think that they should be ashamed of illness, fragility, and the need of help from others. Death is even better.