Contents:
- Healthy elderly are elderly who diligently clean up the house
- The division of work is sorted out and the house must be divided evenly
Becoming a healthy elderly person and being free of chronic illnesses does not have to be achieved with grandiose effort. You can start by diligently cleaning your house every day. In fact, research shows that doing simple homework like cooking, washing dishes, gardening, and shopping, can help improve the quality of life for older people in their old age.
Healthy elderly are elderly who diligently clean up the house
Healthy elderly are those who are more diligent to clean the house, according to a study from the Clinical Gerontology Branch at the National Institute on Aging, Maryland, United States. The research was headed by Chhanda Dutta, PhD.
This study states that cleaning a house is a simple physical activity that is good for the elderly. Regular physical activity can prevent various diseases and decrease body function that often lurks the elderly.
Physical activity can help make you stronger, prevent bone loss, improve balance and coordination, improve mood, improve memory, make sleep better, and reduce certain symptoms due to chronic illness. Those of you who have certain diseases such as diabetes or stroke can prevent health conditions from deteriorating with physical activity.
The research findings above are also supported by a study from Germany published in the journal BMC Public Health. The research team stated that people aged 65 years and over had a higher life expectancy if they were more diligent in doing homework.
Researchers reported that elderly people who spent between 3-6 hours doing housework every day 25 percent reported having better health than those who only spent 1-2 hours doing homework every day.
Interestingly, the benefits of cleaning up the house to ensure healthy elderly are always reported to be higher in the elderly male. In fact, homework is identified with women's duties. This conclusion was obtained after observing the daily habits of more than 15 thousand men and 20 thousand elderly women in more than seven countries, including Italy, Germany, Britain and the United States. Researchers actually found that cleaning the house for less than three hours a day actually reduced the health condition of the elderly, especially men who generally did it less frequently than women.
The division of work is sorted out and the house must be divided evenly
The results of the study prove that elderly men generally only spend about 3 hours per day cleaning up the house, while elderly women can spend almost 5 hours per day. The type of homework done is also more difficult for women (mopping, washing dishes and washing clothes, cooking, and shopping) than what men do that are maintenance and repairs such as repairing leaky taps.
Too much homework is also not good for health, especially for elderly women. Their health tends to deteriorate because doing homework more than 3 hours every day. In the end, this habit affects the duration and quality of sleep for elderly women. Women who spend hours doing homework are also used to experiencing excessive stress.
Therefore, to keep both healthy elderly people in the household, a balance is needed in the distribution of household tasks among elderly couples.
