Empty nesters refer to the elderly who live alone or in a couple's house without children's care. They can be divided into three situations: one is the widowed elderly who have no children, no wife, the other is the elderly who have children but live alone with them, and the other is the elderly whose children are far away from home and have to live in an empty nest.

Relevant government departments should take effective measures to actively deal with and solve the problem of "empty nesters", such as increasing financial supply for the elderly, vigorously developing social pension institutions, speeding up the development of pension services, building a "safety net" for the "empty nesters" and establishing an emergency help information system, etc., so as to do something tangible for the "empty nesters". "Let me be young, let me be old". It is time to provide life care, psychological comfort, emergency assistance, health care, legal aid and other services for empty nesters, because they are facing or suffering from psychological crisis.