A trend, caused by, the LACKING in the systems, from the Front Page Sections, translated…
The R.O.C. Family Caretaker Care Foundation estimated, that seventy percent of the hospitalized are looked after by their families, and toward the trend of decline in birthrate, when someone in the family becomes hospitalized, there would be the trend of “one member of the family’s illness, making it hard for the entire family”, and, having the trained personnel to look after the patients, not only would this help the family members, but also, it could lessen the strains on the nursing staff as well.
While Shen’s parents were hospitalized, he’d needed to work, and so, he could only, hire two nurse’s aides to help look after his ill parents, and the cost per day was $4,200N.T.s per day, in a month, he’d spent over $120,000N.T.s, “It was truly, a difficult in all our lives.”
The nursing assistant professor of N.T.U. nursing department, Professor Chou pointed out, if the family members were never trained to look after the patients, they may get distraught and add to the difficulties. But unfortunately, there’s, this lacking in the nursing staff, the best way, is for the hospitals to train the caretakers, who are professionals, in looking after the ill, and the family need not stay with the loved ones 24/7, and they can visit them at the specific time slots.
Chou said, that while she worked as the assistant director of the En-Ju-Gong Hospital,, she saw many family members fell because of looking after their loved ones around the clock, and so, she’d pushed forth the “complete caretaking by the nursing staff”, to shift the caretaking needs back to the professionals. “So long as the hospitals put a little more into it, then, we can alleviate the stresses of the family members, this, is an obligation of the hospitals, toward the aging population.”
The secretary of the Home Care Foundation also said, that the United Hospital of Taipei started implementing the “Care-Around-the-Clock program for the patients” for years on end, they’d implemented the three shifts a day, and one nurse to several patients ratio, it’d saved money and time for the family members too. The government had trained over 100,000 caretakers over the past years, and there were only a little over 20,000 who’d stayed in the long-term care industries, because there is this huge gap in the wages, that the government should reassign the personnel.
So, because it’s hard work, taking of the elderly who are ill, and because the population is still aging by the day, there’s, this DIRE need for the trained caretakers, the nurses’ aides, but, it’s a problem that wouldn’t get resolved short-term, because there’s still need for a well-thought-out plan, on how to assign the resources, and where to find the people who are willing to be, and want to be trained, as professional caretakers………