As a family member, have you paid attention to the psychological states of the elderly after cerebral infarction?

Cerebral infarction is a common disease among the elderly, and there are certain sequelae, which makes it easy for patients to have psychological problems. Patients' families need to take measures to deal with the psychological characteristics of patients and improve their quality of life. The psychological characteristics of elderly patients with cerebral infarction are generally as follows:

1. Anxiety, sadness, and fear are common symptoms of patients with sequelae of cerebral infarction. Because of the long course of cerebral infarction, serious consequences, and high risk of illness, the psychological pressure on patients is very high. Cerebral infarction can easily cause weakness in the limbs or even paralysis of patients, which brings great obstacles to the patients' lives and causes economic pressure in life. A series of problems will cause psychological anxiety and fear in patients, aggravating their symptoms.

2. Patients with sequelae of cerebral infarction will have a great sense of loss psychologically, because the disease causes great harm to the body. They cannot do what they want as freely as before, and they can't even take care of themselves. This huge gap will bring a great blow to the patients. The patients cannot adapt psychologically, will show guilt towards their relatives, and gradually become less talkative.

3. Irritability and easy anger. With the increase of age and the aging of the body, intelligence, hearing, memory and other aspects will degenerate. Patients with sequelae of cerebral infarction will aggravate the above phenomena due to the characteristics of the symptoms. They will lose their temper over trivial matters and yell at their loved ones.

4. Sequelae of cerebral infarction often affect the patient's ability to judge things, and the psychological manifestation is childish, severe mood swings, inability to make trouble, etc., and it is difficult to communicate well with people around, or they feel that their lives are boring and meaningless. Some patients will lie to their relatives and medical staff because of their inner suspicion and doubt, which affects the progress of their illness. Some patients even have thoughts of suicide because of their inner loneliness and helplessness.

5. Some patients have a certain degree of arrogance in their hearts. They think that their opinions must be correct. They do not want to admit that they are sick and are unwilling to be cared for by others. They do things regardless of their physical condition, which has a great impact on physical recovery.

How to deal with the above situations? Because the patient's condition will cause a great change in life and work, and the self-care ability will deteriorate, it is recommended that family members provide comprehensive care and often accompany the patient to participate in outdoor activities, such as relaxing, playing chess, etc. Because of the disease, patients often have negative emotions. Family members should promptly guide and explain, consider the problem from the patient's perspective, and let the more conceited patients recognize their physical and mental state, guide patients to learn to self-regulate and change their focus, and not get entangled in one place. In the process of caring for the patient, family members should pay attention to the patient's inner changes, have enough patience, give a certain amount of respect, encourage patients to do physical rehabilitation, and through daily exercise, maintain a good mentality, calmly face unpleasant things, and improve their own quality of life.