老年人要安度晚年必须注意心理保健。老年人的自我心理保健能力差,因此要做好老年人心理保健,除老年人自己努力外,家庭和社会也应给予必要的支持和帮助。对老年的界定有生物学和心理学标准之分。生物学认为,老年就是身体的各个生理系统逐渐失去自我更新能力的生命时段:而心理学认为,老年是人解决问题的能力、理解、学习以及在常态和应激情况下的情绪反应等 Elderly people must pay attention to mental health in old age. Elderly people have poor mental health care ability. Therefore, in order to improve mental health care for the elderly, families and the community should provide the necessary support and assistance in addition to their own efforts. There are biological and psychological criteria for the definition of old age. In biology, senility is the life time in which various physical systems of the body are gradually losing their ability to self-renew: whereas psychology considers that senility is one’s ability to solve problems, to understand, to learn, to emotional reactions under normal conditions and stress