Caring Mentally for the Elderly. Respect the elderly person. Help your loved one to cope with the loss of independence. Encourage them to volunteer. Visit frequently. Bring some of their personal belongings with them. Elders desire a life with good health, dignity, economic independence and finally a peaceful death. They long for care, love, and affection. Understanding their needs and concerns will ensure their good health. Lending emotional support to the elders keep them jovial, which is inevitably the ideal way to live a healthy life. However, for many people, providing care and attention to elders is not possible due to work priorities. Elders suffering from cognitive challenges’ undergo serious personality changes; at this point, they need care and attention. When they are left unattended, most of them are gripped with overwhelming feelings of dejection, purposelessness; some of them even turn violent. Regardless of the fact that many of us know that aging is a natural progression and it has its own shortcoming, most of us tend to ignore this and resort to an unruly approach.
