Harvard adult development research revealed that good interpersonal relationships have greater influence on life than genes, which helps people live longer and happier.

Unloading the responsibility of work and entering the retirement years seems to be the happiest part of the age of life.My friends around me said so.

Talking about the financial planning will always be mentioned. After all, the quality of when retirement and retirement depends on whether personal deposits are sufficient.The importance of financial health is beyond doubt, but it is not the only element of happy life.

In fact, social wealth is just as important.

Retirement from a job, the daily interaction with working partners will naturally decrease, which means the passage of social connection.Although our relationship with colleagues is no deeper than our family or friends, we can enrich our social connection and enhance our social wealth.

Social wealth is the best defense against social isolation.

Harvard adult development research is one of the longest research on adult life.Studies have revealed that good interpersonal relationships have greater influence on life than genes, which helps people live longer and happier.

Singapore may enter a super -aged society in 2026. By 2030, one of the four people will be elderly over 65 years old.According to investigations led by the Housing and Development Bureau in 2018, more than 40 % of the residents hope to enjoy their old age in their group houses, which means that more and more people are inclined to pension in place.

With the aging of the population and more Chinese people yearning for the pension, the number of people who live alone will also increase.If the social wealth of Chinese people is not actively reserved and the social connection that passes by with aging, social isolation will slowly invade our society.

As the saying goes: young is capital.The lighter, the more time you have to accumulate social wealth, enjoy the happiness and happiness brought by it, and accumulate more, which is equivalent to collecting "compound interest" in the concept of wealth management.

Time has passed, how should elderly people be good?

Crowdfunding Social Wealth

To strengthen social wealth for the elderly, the principle of crowdfunding can be used.Crowdfunding is a fund -raising method of collecting funds from the public.

However, crowdfunding social wealth must be voluntarily initiated by the elderly. After all, social connection cannot be reluctant.It is not easy to expand social connection, especially those who are accustomed to living alone, and it is more difficult for them to take the first step.

I must clarify that living alone does not mean loneliness, and some people with introverted personality are yearning for living alone.

Everyone's demand for social connection is different.If you can get a sense of belonging and contact with others emotionally, it means that social wealth is sufficient.On the contrary, social isolation can lead to depression, emotional anxiety, and even difficulty in sleeping.

The support of

family and friends can make the elderly more actively expand social connection, and even more of the elderly people who live alone.Frequent visits, eating or traveling can make them feel careless, not to be forgotten by family members and society, and strengthen their sense of belonging in their hearts.

I also encourage elderly people to go out to walk around, know more neighbor neighbors and cultivate feelings.Of course, it is not easy to talk to people, but a simple nodding or smile often can open a meaningful conversation.To this end, the Singaporean Guardian Center has trained 4,000 masterpieces to become Ambassador to Caring for Element, visiting elderly people with households and interviews.

From 2014 to the present, the interviews completed by Ambassador Ambassador have exceeded 1 million. In addition to caring and understanding the elderly people, they have also encouraged them to maintain active and promote active music centers (AAC) activities.

Active age Center is an age activity center in the community. In addition to assisting the elderly to maintain social connection, it also has activities suitable for seniors, such as singing classes, art and cooking classes, and sports.The active age center also provides friends and accompaniment services, and the elderly in need through home visits and electricity visits.

There are 150 active age centers in Singapore Island. It is expected to increase to 220 in 2025 to ensure that there will be active age centers near the home of each older.

For me, the value of retirement is that it has freedom. We must have enough social wealth to enjoy this freedom happily and healthy.

In addition to accumulating personal social wealth, we can also contribute to the social wealth of others.A relative who visited the younger, looking for old friends, or participating in community activities is a meaningful choice.If you want to do your best for the social wealth of the elderly, you can also consider becoming the Ambassador to Caring for Ai Ling.

I am convinced that what we do for improving social wealth will be our return.

The author is the Director of the Lien Care Center for the Lianlian Center