Retired to avoid everyday vacancies

Retired to avoid everyday vacancies

31/01/2015

Many people are looking forward to finally leaving their working life behind and having more time for themselves and their family when they retire. However, pensioners and retirees often find themselves left out of their everyday lives when job responsibilities cease to exist. On the other hand, you can do something.

Social contacts and fixed dates
When retirement begins, there are suddenly no more job-related tasks and the daily meeting with colleagues is also eliminated. Friends and hobbies can help to counteract everyday life and to replenish life, the news agency dpa reports. Accordingly, social contacts and fixed dates at the beginning of retirement help against the dreaded emptiness in everyday life. Susanne Wurm, Professor of Psychogerontology at the Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nürnberg, told the agency that the best way to avoid it is to avoid falling into a hole.

Even before the pension looking for a regular hobby
„With the pension many social contacts and the everyday structure disappear“, so the expert. Therefore, for example, friends and acquaintances outside the circle of colleagues are important. So people with whom you can make regular appointments. For example, to practice a certain sport together or for other recreational activities. Ideally, one looks for a regular hobby before the pension. And even if you initially do not do that often alongside your work. „Then you go there maybe only twice a month or once a week there.“ When you retire, it is easier to expand or intensify what you already know. „If one does not seek something new until retirement has begun, the hurdle is often much higher“, so worm.

Loneliness makes you sick
If you escape the emptiness and the loneliness of senior life, you also do something good for your health. According to doctors, loneliness can affect the mental and physical health of the persons affected. Among other things, they often suffer from hypertension. In addition, according to experts, more frequent prescriptions of psychotropic drugs are observed when older people feel very lonely. This suggests a higher risk of depression. To this result came an evaluation that the Heidelberg physician Dr. med. med. Friederike Böhlen had presented in the previous year. The study found that approximately 19 percent of people between the ages of 57 and 84 take psychoactive drugs. (Ad)

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