This is, what’s, currently, TRENDING, in the realms of long-term care right now, from the Front Page Sections, translated…
The Elderly Population is on the Increase Each & Every Year, and the Tragedies of Long-Term Care is on the Rise Also. The Foundation Estimated, that there were eleven tragedies reported back in 2017, and, the number had, increased to twenty-two in 2018, and the foundation suspected that the reason may be that the primary caretaker couldn’t find someone else to take over, or not knowing where or how to get help, causing that increase in the “sense of helplessness”. And the tragedies reported by the news stations of long-term care can also add on to the sense of helpless that the caretakers feel, and they’re, most likely to copy what’s been happening on the news, causing even MORE tragedies.
Before the end of January this year, there was this case of a man who couldn’t handle the pressures from taking care of his own ill elderly father, he’d strangled his ill father to death, then, hung himself on the iron bridge in Kaohsiung to commit suicide, on the 19th, there was also, the case of a mentally ill man who’d, strangled his ill mother to death in Sanxia, Hsinbei City too. And, the case in Kaohsiung was a first suicide in public that’s caused by the lacking in the long-term care programs.
The foundation estimated, that since 2011, there is a steady increase in the tragedies involving long-term care. There were only two cases back in 2011, and, it’d slowly risen up, to eleven cases by 2017, and, in 2018, the number had increased, to twenty-two cases, that means, that there were, one to two cases of tragedies in long-term care per month last year.
The C.E.O. of the foundation, Kuo stated, that the primary reason for these tragedies, are all related to how there’s no time to break away from caretaking, or that the elderly was, left to care for the elderly, and, caring for the demented patient, the caretaker may be under great duress, causing the caretaker to become psychologically ill too, and there’s a higher rate of male caretakers committing suicide than female. They’d not known how or where to get the help they needed they’d, allowed their despair to become that final straw.
So, I believe, that having an extra set of hands to help out, that, is what’s between these life and death situations, because, the primary caretakers will get impacted, by the burdens, the stresses that s/he experiences, and, if s/he doesn’t know how to get help physically and/or psychologically, then, there would be a higher rate that these primary caretakers will, CRACK, causing more and more tragedies involving lacking in the support systems of long-term care here in the world today.