Since the past 20 years, the phenomenon that the elderly are keen on health care and obsessed with various metaphysical therapies has come to light. In recent years, although with the crackdown on the law and the popularization of the Internet, the elderly have relatively improved their ability to identify, but they are still obsessed with various health therapies. Even the children of many elderly people cannot understand their parents' worship of health preservation. Behind these are actually the elderly's fear of death and the insecurity of the social environment.
There are more than 700 million farmers in China, and their pensions range from more than a thousand yuan to a few hundred yuan. When a person has no retirement security, his biggest expectation is good health. Traditional Chinese medicine is a subject generally believed in by the elderly. Because Western medicine is described by many businesses as the medicine with the greatest side effects. In addition to medicine, traditional Chinese medicine also has a lot of physical metaphysics, as well as various magical treatments that have not been scientifically proven. This gives the elderly a broad imagination and the ability to comfort themselves. So we can see that many old people often do some weird health-preserving methods.
Professionally, these health-preserving methods have almost no scientific proof or any scientific basis. However, the concept of traditional Chinese medicine includes Taoism and Buddhism , so it cannot be scientifically verified, but the old man is obsessed with these truths that have not been scientifically verified. Because China’s urbanization only lasted about 20 years. Most of these old people’s life memories are in rural areas. Memories cannot be changed. Rather than truth, people prefer to restore to memory. Because memory carries a sense of security.
Near the community where I live, there are still a group of businesses that consider the health care of the elderly as a commercial purpose. Their usual routines and tricks can be seen through at a glance, but the elderly people form groups one after another. In fact, it is not that the elderly have no ability to judge, but that the social system is indifferent to the elderly. Because the elderly cannot create huge economic capabilities. Therefore, it has become a social norm for the elderly to be ignored. If the hospital can give the elderly medical expenses relief, then the elderly will not convert their health anxiety into business.
The elderly just hope to stay healthy at a lower cost to avoid causing more serious diseases. From this point of view, the old man was not wrong. What was wrong was that the businessman took this as a breakthrough and emptied the old man's wallet. Before this, the elderly were unwilling to discuss matters with their children because they would be an added burden to their children. The collision of various reasons has resulted in the dilemma of health care for the elderly in China. As China ages, the health care industry will become increasingly confusing. Because the so-called health maintenance is just a very simple food, clothing, housing, transportation and mentality, there is no superb secret. However, the insecurity in the system and the cheapness of pensions have caused the elderly to have increasing anxiety about their health.
I saw a news report today about a park full of people lying on the cobblestone ground doing heat therapy . This reminds me of the many elderly people who are tempted by merchants to buy various supplements and look for all kinds of crooked health tips. One day we will also become old people. One day we too will develop fears of death and disease. These fears strike early on those over fifty. It seems to be saying that if you don’t maintain good health, you will be bitten by ten thousand disease maggots in the future.
China should be the country with the most anxiety in the world. Whether it is career anxiety, pension anxiety, marriage anxiety, home purchase anxiety, etc., it ranks among the top in the world. The Chinese are also the nation with the most saving habits in the world. Because the only one we can rely on is ourselves. When we cannot obtain our own sense of security, we will continue to look outside for all unreliable sense of security. The old man is the best proof.
Students are anxious about grades, adults are anxious about money, and the elderly are anxious about health. It’s not that anyone intentionally incited this anxiety, but when we have nothing, lying on the roadside, what is waiting for you is not the person who saves you, but death.
