{"id":53929,"date":"2022-06-27T09:41:32","date_gmt":"2022-06-27T07:41:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/novanews.co.za\/worcesterstandard\/die-emosionele-impak-van-die-verouderingsproses-20220622-2\/"},"modified":"2022-06-27T09:41:32","modified_gmt":"2022-06-27T07:41:32","slug":"die-emosionele-impak-van-die-verouderingsproses-20220622-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novanews.co.za\/worcesterstandard\/die-emosionele-impak-van-die-verouderingsproses-20220622-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Om oud te word is nie maklik nie"},"content":{"rendered":"

We don\u2019t talk about trees getting older, we say they\u2019re \u201cgrowing\u201d. Let\u2019s use the same term about ourselves. We\u2019re not getting older, we\u2019re just \u201cgrowing\u201d. That\u2019s the spirit of living.<\/em> <\/p>\n

Daar is al talle boeke geskryf oor die impak van die verouderingsproses. Skrywers vertel onomwonde hoe elkeen van hulle ouderdom ervaar. .<\/span> F.A. Venter se Die dag toe ek my naam vergeet het<\/em> (1995) is \u2019n uitstekende outobiografiese vertelling oor sy ervarings nadat hy \u2019n beroerte beleef het. Eers sy verblyf in \u2019n hospitaal en toe veral in die aftree-sentrum Altena in die Strand.<\/p>\n

S\u00f3 begin die boek: \u201cDie dood het een m\u00f4re suutjies by my kombuis in Seemeeu 1104 in die Strand ingekom. Baie suutjies. Juis toe ek besig was om die ontbytgoedjies op te was. Ek het hom nie gehoor \u00f3f gesien \u00f3f verwag nie. Ek het so goed gevoel. So vol energie. Sou nog die middag gaan rolbal speel. Ek het di\u00e9 oggend waarlik kans gesien vir die lewe.<\/p>\n

Omdat my vrou swaar deur emfiseem en \u2019n hartkwaal aangetas is, sorg ek elke oggend vir ontbyt en was daarna die skottelgoed.<\/p>\n

Ek dro\u00eb nog so af, toe val die vadoek uit my regterhand. Ek buk en tel dit op. Ek vermoed niks. Dis so \u2019n pragtige someroggend \u2013 helder, windloos.\u201d<\/p>\n

N\u00e1 dit weer en weer gebeur het, w\u00e9\u00e9t hy daar is iets verkeerd: \u201cDit is \u2019n groot ding di\u00e9. Dis nie vir sommerso nie. Die vadoek val teen my sin en wil uit my hand \u2013 sonder dat ek enige pyn voel. En skielik tref dit my: Ek staan van aangesig tot aangesig met die dood. Maar is die dood dan so pynloos? So genadig?\u201d<\/p>\n

Venter s\u00ea: \u201cEk het baie verloor \u2013 die kosbaarste. Maar ek het nog geleer om te verduur. Te aanvaar. Tevrede te wees. Anders sou dit ondraaglik wees.\u201d.<\/span> Olga Kirsch stel dit ook duidelik in een van haar gedigte: <\/p>\n

Hoe het dit skielik laat geword?<\/p>\n

Die oggend was so lank en stil,<\/p>\n

die middag ruim en warm en geel.<\/p>\n

Die afdraand van die dag is kil.<\/p>\n

Hoe het dit skielik laat geword?.<\/span> In Spertyd<\/span> skryf Elsa Joubert oor die lewe van oumense, verlies in verskillende vorme: \u201cEintlik kan Verlies die naam van al sulke oumensgeboue wees. Elkeen kom hierheen omrede verlies. \u00d3f sy lewensmaat, \u00f3f sy gesondheid. Of \u2019n lam been of \u2019n beskadigde kop, \u2019n kop wat soos \u2019n gieter met lekplekke is.\u201d<\/p>\n

Besonder frustrerend is die verlies van woorde en van gedagtes. Dit gaan gepaard met \u2019n nuwe perspektief wat ontwikkel moet word, die besef \u201cjy staan nie meer in die hoofstroom nie. Jy het jou kans gehad. Dis verby\u201d. Sy het \u2019n randfiguur geword.<\/p>\n

Die proses van ouer word<\/h3>\n

In die voorafgaande vertellings deur skrywers oor hul persoonlike ervarings van ouderdom en die uitdagings daaraan verbonde, het ek die gevolgtrekking gemaak dat \u201couderdom\u201d slegs vir deurwinterde mense met \u2019n fyn lewensbalans, \u2019n oop kop met nugtere denke, en \u2019n onuitputbare humorsin oorleefbaar is!<\/p>\n

Die gemeenskaplikheid van die ervaring van geweldige verliese is seker die mees algemene kenmerk van die ouerword-proses. <\/p>\n

Aanvanklik die verlies van status en inkomste by aftrede, later die verlies van gesondheid, mobiliteit wat lei tot die verlies aan jou jare lange woonplek, diere, nog later die verlies van bekendes en familie wat kan lei tot eensaamheid. Liggaamlike verliese in terme van gesondheidsprobleme lei tot verswakking, verlies aan mobiliteit, aftakeling van die menslike liggaam. <\/p>\n

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Ek het baie verloor \u2013 die kosbaarste. Maar ek het nog geleer om te verduur. Te aanvaar. Tevrede te wees. Anders sou dit ondraaglik wees.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Die somtotaal van die voorafgaande lei tot groter afhanklikheid van hulp \u2013 hulp van hulpmiddels, mense, toerusting soos gehoorapparate, loop-apparate en nog meer. Aanvanklike onafhanklik bly en selfversorging, word opgevolg deur tuisversorging deur kundiges, later opname in \u2019n versorgingsfasiliteit of tehuis vir ouer mense, met die opname in \u2019n 24-uur-per-dag-versorgingsentrum as laaste heenkome. Hierdie vooruitskouing van die verouderingsproses en die implikasies daarvan kan baie donker vir die gemoed wees, en is die persoonlikheid en gesindheid\/houding van die individu van kardinale belang. <\/p>\n

Hoe mense oor ouderdom dink, gaan bepaal watter uitwerking dit op hulself, die mense om hulle, en toekoms gaan h\u00ea. Om bekommerd, angstig en depressief te voel, is menslik en \u2019n natuurlike reaksie op onsekerhede of verlies-ervarings. Krisisse en moeilike tye verander mense, hul verhoudinge en toekoms \u00f3f ten goede \u00f3f ten kwade. Dis belangrik om ouderdom as \u2019n geleentheid te beskou om die beste in jou na vore te bring, om weer vanselfsprekende dinge te waardeer en om sekere dinge beter te kan doen.<\/p>\n

Die geskiedenis het ons geleer dat n\u00e1 elke geweldige krisis vir die mens of natuur daar \u2019n nuwe tyd van opbou, herstel en dikwels versnelde of anderse groei voorl\u00ea. Die mooi en karaktervolle bome het dikwels swaar gekry, in hul moeisame verskrompelde kronkels en bo\u00eb, l\u00ea hul sterkte \u00e9n prag. <\/p>\n

Ons beleef ouderdom op \u2019n manier as \u2019n woestyn-ervaring, \u2019n gestrooptheid van die bekende manier van doen, dink en wees. Dit kan vir ons juis \u2019n tyd van visie, heling en stilte word . . . \u2019n tyd waarin jy tot inkeer in jouself kan kom. \u2019n Tyd om te begin om in \u2019n ander rat te lewe \u2013 stadiger, rustiger. Dit is ons geleentheid vir meer tyd vir mekaar, vir dink, wonder, besin, lees . . . om di\u00e9 dinge te doen waarby ons n\u00e9t n\u00f3\u00f3it uitkom nie. Dit kan ook \u2019n kreatiewe tyd van ontdek wees: jou eie innerlike sterkte, aanpassingsvermo\u00eb en kreatiwiteit om nuwe dinge te skep of te leer.<\/p>\n

Ouderdom verg \u2019n nuwe manier van wees, van leef en dink <\/h3>\n

Neem verantwoordelikheid, vir jou fisieke, finansi\u00eble, maar veral ook emosionele en spirituele welstand. Wanneer jy voel dat jy nie meer jou eie finansies kan hanteer nie, vra die hulp van jou kinders of finansi\u00eble kenners.1. Dink verder as die nou en jou eie belang. Dink in terme van onmiddellike behoeftes en noodsaaklikhede, maar ook aan die toekoms en volhoubaarheid daarvan vir jouself.2. Groei of gaan onder. Wees pro-aktief en doen nou dinge om jou lewe beter te maak.3. Fokus op wat nou binne jou beheer is \u2013 wat jy n\u00f3\u00fa kan doen.4. Hou kontak met jou mense en gebruik die tyd om verhoudinge met hulle te versterk en te bou via elektroniese en telekommunikasie-media tot jou beskikking. 5. Maak seker dat jy \u2019n positiewe ingesteldheid het \u2013 dit maak die verskil wat jou anders laat dink, optree en die mense om jou positief maak en hou.<\/p>\n

Om gelukkig in jouself as mens te wees, is belangrik<\/h3>\n

.<\/span> Vermy die depressiewe leefstyldinge, soos om ure net niks konstruktiefs te doen nie; .<\/span> jou van mense te onttrek en net in jou kamer te bly, of niks van jou te laat hoor nie;.<\/span> toelaat dat jou dae en gemoed deur die negatiewe inligting in die media be\u00efnvloed word, of net daaroor te praat en te dink;.<\/span> jou persoonlike versorging afskeep nie.<\/p>\n

Lydia Corbett \u2013 Maatskaplike werker\/Social worker<\/em><\/p>\n

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Om emosioneel en fisiek gesond te bly moet gewone, goeie, positiewe roetines in stand gehou word<\/div>\n
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1. Slaap: Maak seker jy slaap goed en genoeg.<\/p>\n

2. Eet: Eet gesond en genoeg.<\/p>\n

3. Oefen: Wees kreatief en bedink nuwe en ander maniere om te oefen \u2013 klim trappies, of gaan stap saam met \u2019n vriend\/vriendin waar dit veilig is.<\/p>\n

4. Wees netjies op jouself en jou omgewing. Versorg jou keurig \u2013 dit laat \u2019n mens goed voel.<\/p>\n

5. Doen lekker dinge waarvan jy hou. Wees goed vir jouself!<\/p>\n

6. Sorg vir die verhoudinge in jou lewe \u2013 bel\u00ea in vriendskappe. Doen lekker dinge saam met vriende of kennisse, speel speletjies, speel kaart, bou legkaarte, hou vasvrae . . . maar doen dinge s\u00e1\u00e1m. Maak \u2019n afspraak met vriende \u2013 trek jou mooi aan en kuier, drink saam koffie of \u2019n glas wyn, nooi hulle na jou woonstel of kamer oor. Maak afsprake met mekaar en fliek voor die TV met springmielies, luister saam musiek, of sit net en gesels. S\u00e1\u00e1mdoendinge keer die gevoel van alleenheid. So hou jy jouself emosioneel gesond.<\/p>\n

7. Kommunikeer via die internet of telefoon met jou vriende en familie elders: e-posse, telefoonoproepe, gesprekke op WhatsApp, skryf briewe. Wees dankbaar vir wat jy steeds in jou omstandighede het. Skryf dit daagliks neer, en s\u00ea dit vir ander: Ek is dankbaar vir die ruimte en gemak van my woonstel\/kamer, water, elektrisiteit, my uitsig, vir mense wat vir my omgee, my toegang tot mediese sorg indien ek siek sou word, vir kos, vir die natuur, die seisoene daar buite.<\/p>\n

8. Maak \u2019n lys van dinge wat jy wil, en kan doen. En merk af wat jy al gedoen het. Dit gee mens \u2019n gevoel van genoegdoening dat jy iets bereik en vermag.<\/p>\n

9. Gebruik jou sin vir humor \u2013 \u2019n lag op sy tyd is helend.<\/p>\n

10. Maak met kreatiwiteit jou omgewing interessant en anders. Skuif jou kamer, dinge teen jou mure, steek \u2019n paar vars blomme in, bad\/stort by kerslig. Pak jou kaste reg sodat dit meer verbruikersvriendelik is. Gee weg wat jy nie gebruik nie.<\/p>\n

11. Dis \u2019n goeie tyd vir kreatiwiteit: Skryf jou lewensverhaal, doen naaldwerk, brei, leer teken of skilder.<\/p>\n

12. Leef bewustelik in die oomblik \u2013 raak bewus van die dinge om jou, sien die klein dingetjies in jou omgewing raak en waardeer dit!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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