As Their Parents Aged……the Handicapped Drifted, Farther from Home

The problems in issues of social welfare, from the Front Page Sections, translated…

As the handicapped started living in an institution, because of their elderly parents dying, of that the families left the caretaking duties to the facilities, causing a lot of the residents to not be able to go back home to spend the holidays; seeing those who were taken home by their loved ones, those who’d stayed would, always leaned on the door frames, hoping, that their loved ones can come and pick them up too, and cried, “Why can’t I go home”, it’d made the professional caretakers in the facilities feel sad for them too.

The Tzi-Shen Jen-Ai Institute in Changwha has 132 residents, there were about 70 who didn’t go home for the new year’s; those who’d stayed in the facilities are more than half of the population. The Tzi-Ai Home in Changwah also had twenty, out of a total of 161 who didn’t get to go home.

phoot from online…

The manager of the executive department of Tsi-Shen Jen-Ai Home , Huang pointed out, the number of those who couldn’t go home at New Year’s are on the rise by the year, and the facility had, turned into the only source of support that the residents can rely on. She said, most of the residents all wanted to be with family, although they can’t express it in their words, but, as they watched others getting taken home by their loved ones, they would lean by the door, and hoped to see their loved ones too, and even cried, “Why can’t I go home too?”

And, based off of understanding, as the family members were asked to pay more attention, to show more care toward those residents, they’d stated, “I too, have my rights”, believed, that they can’t do anything else more for their families in care, and some of the family members had even, gone missing, and stopped paying the fees, this was also, one reason why the residents couldn’t, go home.

Huang said, that the Tzi-Shen Jen-Ai facility asked the families to do their duties in care, and had the families signed a contract, including the rules of getting the residents home by the week, by the month, by the season, and even had the two weeks per year of “family time together” set up, and, all the residents must be sent home during the time to spend with family, but, most of the times, not nearly half of the residents had, made it home.

one of the resients, brushing his teeth, under the supervision of the staff member…photo courtesy of UDN.com

And so, the families believed, that so long as we’re, paying money for the care of our loved ones, that’s, enough that we’d done, we have our own lives to live too! And that’s, just selfish, because they are your families too, and, how would you feel, if when you’re old, unable to care for yourselves, that your own families shoved you into a nursing home too, and stopped visiting you, only on the special occasions of New Year’s, or your birthdays, or, not even, huh?