Experts say older people were happier and healthier in the past because they did more exercise and spent more time with family and friends, whereas now many suffer loneliness and health problems. What are the causes of this and what are some solutions?

There has been a significant change in human life

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over the past few decades, from the way we exercise to the

food

we consume, everything has been improved to provide a better living condition for human beings.

However

,

in contrast

to popular belief, professionals believe that the elderly

was

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more joyful and fitter since they used more time to enjoy

with

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fams and peers, whereas, nowadays old people tend to suffer solitary and medical problems.

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essay tends to elaborate thoroughly on the causes as well as solutions to the matter. There are multiple reasons why senior citizens in modern days prone to be lonely and more likely to be exposed to certain illness.

First

, since the existence of technological devices, people are more interested in staying

indoor

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instead

of going out as those devices meet all their daily needs, from

latest

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news to entertainment.

Therefore

, the elder will lessen their opportunities to exercise day by day as well as chances to make new connections to people in the neighbourhood.

In addition

, there has

also

been a huge consumption of fast

food

in the past few years among the old, fast

food

is one of the major factors which lead to many certain

healthy

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health

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problem

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problems

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such

as diabetes, heart disease,…

Furthermore

,

government

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the government

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has not paid enough attention to community activity for

this

age group. Possible solutions should be sought to deal with

this

catastrophic phenomenon.

First

,

government

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the government

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should encourage the authority to organize more events or club for senior members in order to create a friendly environment for the elderly to get along with each other.

Furthermore

,

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medical program is necessarily needed in

this

group in the community so as to provide specific knowledge about which kind of

food

their body

need

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to consume and to take track of their health frequently so as to prevent fatal circumstances. To sum up,

although

there

has

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been many huge improvements in modern days which facilitate human life, the elderly

seems

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to experience more difficulty in coping with loneliness and healthy problem than they had to in the past.

However

, there are several solutions

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made in order to reduce the chance that

this

phenomenon may occur in the community.