Upon thumbing across the recent tragedies of long-term care, from the Front Page Sections, translated…
I’d just started wondering WHY it was, that all my friends LINED me, asked me if I had problems, handling my husband’s wellbeing after he’d had a stroke? Turns out, that the television played and replayed the news of how the daughter could no longer care for the mother who had a stroke, and murdered her.
My husband had a stroke four months ago, there is still my elderly mother-in-law in his home front, kids in school, I’d worked really hard, plus, I’d had health difficulties myself, and when I couldn’t manage, I’d had to find a nurse’s aide to help me out.
Other than having to deal with the complications that are sudden in onset, learned about how to care for the various kinds of patients, and because the National Health Insurance’s rule of how we had to transfer from one hospital to another, oftentimes, before we’d gotten the okay from the next hospital, the hospital we were in already started, chasing us out, if we didn’t have relations, heading home to wait for a bed in the hospitals to open up would be very normal.
During the time of chaos, I’d still had to run the errands at the various offices, to apply for the related areas of aid, but, the information that the government offices are either, incomplete, or lacking things, and so, we’d had to, make multiple trips to and fro.
If I’m a caretaker with a weakened social support system, I would’ve probably gotten diagnosed with a psychological condition now, without the time to get checked out, I don’t know that I will, or won’t, have a mental breakdown………gladly, I had friends, families, and my church’s support, otherwise, it would be, unimaginable, for the three of us, mother and daughters.
In the loud rantings of the society, do you also think, that this, is another tragedy where the daughter was awful and murdered her own mother? There are actually, a lot that needed improving in the social welfare systems, as well as in medical care too, otherwise, this sort of tragedies will keep on happening.
So, this gets to the ROOT of the problem: because the caretakers of the ill couldn’t get the social, emotional/psychological supports they’d needed, that, is why they’d turned to murdering their loved ones, and, the writer is right on that if the systems don’t improve, like provide counseling in the community for the caretakers and such, the problem will keep on persisting, and more tragedies will keep on happening too.