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Helping Out "Empty Nest Old Men" - Coggle Diagram
Helping Out "Empty Nest Old Men"
Action
substantial assistance
helping carring out duties for old empty nesters, such as cleaning house and cooking.
teaching them modern knowledge to break the generational gaps between the elderly and the contemporary.
encouraging a charity to raise funds to support empty nesters financially
Arranging online chattings between empty nesters and their children far away
spending time with the old empty nesters
better do this on the weekends
playing games such as chess with them
recruit kinds who resemble their grandchildren to reduce the gap
all of this may require the assistance from the experts
The Anoucement
physical
banner with relevant information hanging around community
make advertisement-like pamphlet and spread it out
online version
advertisement-like information that can be spread on internet
special website documented our videos and research data to encourage more to help empty nester out
make propaganda movies or short videos
writing reports to warn people the fact that empty nester needs help by publishing them on magazines
Research
How Severe is the condition of empty nester
More and more empty nesters are occurring these days
The income source for empty nester is only pension, which is so not enough for them to be self-sufficient
some of the empty nesters are old men with dementia
Empty nester definition
a parent whose children have grown and moved away from home
What's bad about being an empty nester
Empty nester tends to be depressed
A total of 46 studies with 36,791 subjects were included. The pooled prevalence of depression was 38.6% (95%CI: 31.5-46.3%). Compared with non-empty-nest elderly, empty-nest elderly were more likely to suffer from depression
A recently published report estimates that as of 2016, the number of elderly Chinese living apart from their children had ballooned to 118 million. And as China’s population continues to age — and its family configurations continue to evolve — the question of how best to address the needs of its empty nesters will only grow more pressing.
Since young adults moving out from their families' house is generally a normal and healthy event, the symptoms of empty nest syndrome often go unrecognized. This can result in depression and a loss of purpose for parents,since the departure of their children from "the nest" leads to adjustments in parents' lives. Empty nest syndrome is especially common in full-time mothers.
Interview & Questionnaire
Collect data from the institutions supporting empty nesters
ask the institutions what they do in order to help the empty nesters
see if we can join them to help contributing
collect data from the adults whose parents are empty nesters
ask them how often do they go home to visit their parents
ask the amount of assistance they provide to their parents
ask the reasons preventing them from spending more time with their parents
Collect data from the empty nesters themselves
may require the assistance from the instituions
ask them the level of loneliness they feel
ask the kind of company they may want
this part is better for using interview to create sense of closeness to the old empty nesters
