An electrocardiographic survey of the aged.

In a short-term study, 38% of a group of hospital and clinic patientsat least 75 years of age were found to have normal resting electrocardiograms. Other surprising findings were a higher incidence of atrial fibrillation than of atrial premature contractions, a relatively low incidence of acute or residual myocardial infarction, and a very low incidence of digitalis intoxication among the patients treated with this drug.     

Coping with mortality: An essay on self-mourning

The idea of “self-mourning” can be extended to shed light on the existential challenge of coping with life in the shadow of death. Coming to terms with personal finiteness and mortality can be understood as a grieving process. Just as grieving the death of another is an extremely complex and multifaceted experience with emotional, physical, spiritual, intellectual, and social impacts challenging the very integrity of the grieving person, so confrontation with and coming to terms with one's own finiteness (self-mourning in the extended sense proposed) has a similar range of impacts and poses a comparable challenge to personal integrity. Just as grieving persons coping with the death of another must work through the tasks of grieving, so persons coping with their own mortality must work through similar tasks. The extended concept of self-mourning illuminates the potentially lifelong struggle to cope with the finiteness, impermanence, uncertainty, and vulnerability that mortality entails. In conclusion, implications of these findings for death education are sketched.     

心理干预对增强老年人心理免疫力的影响

增强老年人的心理免疫力就是根据老年人的特点 ,运用适宜的心理干预方法 ,引起积极、愉快、舒畅的心理状态 ,并通过有关神经中枢对免疫系统发生积极的影响 ,以加强其功能活动 ,从而起到延缓免疫系统老化 ,延年益寿的目的。现就几种心理干预方法对增强老年人心理免疫力的影响 ,探讨如下。1　积极行为法　　积极行为法是指经常存在着某个目的并为其实现而表现出积极的行为 ,借以提高生理功能 ,从而增强心理免疫力的一种心理方法。老年人虽已离职退休 ,但其心理和行为不应休止 ,而要进入另一种积极的生活、学习和工作中。应有意识、有目的地安…     

太极拳锻炼对中老年人心理因素影响分析

目的:探讨长期习练太极拳对中老年人心理因素的影响。方法:随机抽取济南市中老年太极拳练习者为研究对象,用调查问卷的方法获得有关心理压力,人际关系和心理年龄的数据。结果:济南市中老年具有运动习惯者的心理健康状况较好,实际年龄<49岁的占6%,心理年龄<49岁的占100%;太极拳人群与其他人群的心理年龄没有差别(χ2=5.49,P>0.05);不同活动组中老年人的心理应激能力、人际关系维度得分差异有显著性意义(χ2=18.00～41.82;P<0.01)。结论:长期习练太极拳可以缓解中老年人的心理压力,显著影响中老年人心理应激能力,促进中老年人人际关系的协调发展。     

老年人用药心理误区及心理康复

INTRODUCTION In the medical service for people accepting resting therapy and senile cadres,some psychological misunderstanding of medication of the aged often are observed.Meantime,the problem of reasonable medication more and more cause attention of people.