Old-age toys are hard to buy entertainment, just mahjong, chess and poker.

"Love to play" old people sigh too little toys

In the past, most people thought that playing toys was a patent for children. But in fact, many elderly people have demand for toys, and the demand is not small.

The temperature is not very high in these days, but the reporters in the 11th district of Kunqu District saw that every afternoon, there are always seven or eight elderly people wearing thick cotton coats to set up tables in the sunny place at the bottom of the building, and some play mahjong. Some play poker. Onlookers, Uncle Li told reporters that in the past, whether it was winter or summer, playing mahjong, playing chess, playing poker is all his entertainment. This year's Spring Festival, the grandson brought him a set of smart jigsaw puzzle toys. He played with his wife a few days ago, and he didn't think it took a lot of effort to put the puzzles together. It was very satisfying. "Now I play puzzles when my husband and I are fine. This is not the case. I asked the children to buy a few sets a few days ago. I played with my grandson on the weekend." Uncle Li said.

"It’s a bit annoying to live like this every day, but everyone can’t think of any good entertainment projects.” Uncle Zhao, who has retired for many years, told reporters. Many elderly people expressed great interest in the old toys proposed by the reporters. A grandfather said: "Although I am retired, I can't do nothing. Children can have toys to accompany them through their happy childhood. We also hope to have toys to accompany us through our peaceful years."

"Old man toys" shopping malls are difficult to spread

Mr. Zhang, who returned from Baotou to Tianjin during the Spring Festival, told reporters: “Parents have been retiring for a long time. When they were in good health, they can often participate in some cultural and sports activities held by the community, but as they grow older, they go out more and more. Little, staying at home is doing nothing. During the holiday, our children are with us, we are leaving, they will start a lonely life again.” In order to relieve the parents, Mr. Zhang saw the elderly toys from the Internet and wanted to buy them. Several sets of homes are sent to parents, but online shopping needs to be mailed, and when things arrive, they have already left, can't teach parents to use them, so they want to go to the mall to buy, they can go through the size of the market in Baotou, and they have not found any special sales. The place for old toys.

The reporter went to the Taiping Temple shopping mall in Donghe District and saw many toys selling stalls selling children's toys . Ms. Gong, a salesperson, told the reporter: "There are too few old-age toys on the market. Many manufacturers have positioned the consumption of the elderly on fitness equipment such as twisters and treadmills, while entertainment and puzzles. There are very few toys.” The reporter found in the interview that toys such as Kong Mingsuo, Huarong Road and Jiu Lianhuan were sold very rarely.

Doctor advice

Older people play toys to prevent dementia

During the interview, Li Hongxia, principal of Baotou City Happy Parents School and senior psychological counselor, said that the elderly should not read books and watch TV for too long. The elderly can play with toys to relieve boredom and make up for the psychological shortcomings of the elderly. Aspects of development to maintain a healthy state.

Dr. Wang from the Second Hospital of Baotou City said that the elderly can play more interesting, intellectual and challenging toys. For example, the popular unbuttoning and jigsaw puzzles on the market, because these seemingly simple toys, in fact, require a lot of thoughts, which is a challenge to intelligence, but also can activate the joints of the hands, exercise finger flexibility, and promote The whole body's blood circulation promotes blood flow back to the brain, promotes aerobic metabolism, and prevents dementia. The incidence of Alzheimer's disease in people who started playing adult educational toys before the age of 50 was only 32% of the general population. Some mild Alzheimer's patients play adult educational toys, which can slow down or even prevent the development of the disease, and a small number of patients have a certain degree of intellectual recovery.

Original title: Old-age toys are difficult to buy entertainment only by "three big pieces"