Empty nest syndrome in the elderly mostly occurs in the elderly who live alone after their children leave home as adults. This symptom belongs to one of the "adaptation disorders" in the classification of mental diseases, which is mainly manifested as mental emptiness and idleness. Lack of care from relatives is the root cause of empty nest syndrome in the elderly. "Empty nesters" are often in poor health, with a high prevalence rate and inconvenient movement. However, due to the lack of children's care, most of these elderly people are more likely to live a boring life, shrink back, doubt their own existence value, often fall into a hopeless, bored and helpless state, and even lead to Alzheimer's Harmo's disease in serious cases.

2. Depression

Depressive affective disorder is particularly prominent among the elderly, which seriously affects their quality of life. The older the elderly are, the higher the need to be taken care of, while the children of "empty nesters" are not around, and the most basic needs are not met, which makes it easier to form depression. In modern society, people's family concept has changed a lot, especially most young couples can't or don't want to live with their parents, and the old people's hopes of enjoying family happiness in their later years have failed, resulting in depression and other bad emotions.

3. Anxiety

Anxiety is a complex emotional state of fear of adverse consequences. The survey found that the anxiety prevalence rate of the elderly in the community, especially the "empty nesters", was very high, and 27.5% of the empty nesters had anxiety symptoms. The anxiety incidence rate of the "empty nesters" was higher than that of depression. The anxiety of the elderly often develops into depression or a mixture of the two, which further damages the physical and mental health of the elderly.

4. Loneliness

It is found that the biggest problem faced by empty nesters is emotional problems, and feelings are mainly loneliness. Nearly 87% of the elderly feel lonely, which greatly affects the physical and mental health of empty nesters.