the poster for the movie…
If this had happened here, you can BET, that it can happen, in your vicinities as well, especially with the aging population slowly, taking up the majority of the population of the world right now, from the Front Page Sections, translated…
The 2012 French film, “Amour”, describing an elderly musician couple in their eighties, the elderly man took care of his demented wife long term, and, because he felt burdened, and saddened how his wife is never going to be the loved one he once knew, he’d, smothered his wife in her sleep to death.
As the media is focusing on the presidential election, on the social news forum, there was, a tragedy like in “Amour” in Taiwan. In the city of Taipei there was an eighty-seven year-old elderly man who’d taken care of his wife who had been diagnosed with Alzheimer’s for multiple years, and not wanted to burden their three daughter, he’d decided, to commit suicide with his wife at his residence.
No matter who becomes the next president, who’d elected to the legislature, the lives of ordinary citizens still happens, but, how, do we, pass through our separate lives? The growing population of the aging community, with the slow-paced long-term care program policies, the voters must use their votes, to demand a more specific form of long-term care, otherwise, there would be, more tragedies such as this occurring.
Two years ago, the central government had combined the Department of Sanitations and the Social Policies Department together, to form the “Social Welfare Agency”, but, to date, the two still operated separately of one another, the functions weren’t, linked together at all; and, the local governments are acting even more so, the Taipei City’s Department of Sanitation and the Social Services had yet to be combined, let alone, the functionalities of the two departments, working together.
Currently, the daycare centers in the city of Taipei focuses on caring for the elderly that the facilities accepted in, and you can’t see what the facilities are doing, to aid the families with demented elderly. There are, nearly 70,000 elderly who can’t take care of themselves, and there are only, seventeen daycare centers, with no more than six hundred individuals the facilities can help look after, and, there’s also, a deficit in home care program too, so, what happens, to other cities and counties in the rest of Taiwan?
Long-term care is the most basic social right of the people, in Denmark, the public can fill out the information in the transparency of information, and the government would assign the openings accordingly, and, the nursing homes are not the ones deciding whether or not the services would be provided or not.
Making the care of elderly population available locally and in the communities, is the most important direction that caring for the aging population need to take, increasing the service centers’ functions is the right methods of approach. The community centers for the elderly in Taiwan, other than informing the elderly of improving one’s health, they should prioritize the services provided for those who are in the first stages of dementia, and it’d needed to, provide education on care for the families, offer support groups, then, incorporate the elderly into the programs. The elderly who’d lost their mental capacities may not be physically handicapped, and it would help greatly, if the society can utilize the interactions shared by the elderly who are demented but still physically capable to help the elderly who’d lost their mobility, to set up this way of interactionist style of living.
And so, this would still be, the IDEAL, and, there are, a lot of problems surrounding the long-term care program anywhere in the world, because the population IS aging, and, as the elderly populations grow older yet, they will need more human resources to help them live from day to day, but, because the system isn’t set up to function right yet, that, is why, everything is still slow to move along.
Life, the Obstacle Course 