On how the society isn’t, “friendly enough” for the aging communities here, from a professor of Social Welfare graduate program here, off of the Front Page Sections, translated…
Based off of the statistical measures result conducted by the Department of Internal Affairs, there are close to 430,000 elderly population who are living in the apartments without the elevators, and in just the past two years, the number rose up to over 90,000 elderly in the population, adding the mansions, roughly measured, there would be, close to seventy-percent of the elderly population who are living in a place without elevators, and this was the sole cause of elderly people getting, “locked in” inside their own residences, there’s a need to get to the depth of this topic.
Currently, there are roughly a total of 3.8 million elderly people, of them, the elderly who live alone, or with an elderly spouse, is close to a million; roughly estimated, by 2030, the old houses, the old apartments, will take up about thirty-percent of the housing in the communities, and so, on the boring subject of elderly, old apartments, locked in the homes in old age, the subjects deserve us, discussing more in-depth into.
what the newer apartments have…
First, the transition from elderly society to super-elderly society, the term aging no longer referred to the increase in the population of the elderly people, but also includes the thirty, forty-year-old residences. It’s just, that I’m not here, to show the number of elderly in the population, or the number of old properties, but the complexities of the issues behind the numbers, the uneven distribution of resources, along with the effects of all these factors, interrelating to each other.
And so, the elderly getting trapped in the old residents, will come faster than expected. After all, what’s before us, is the unsatisfied basic needs, as well as the risk of the person’s wellbeing, this made the “lack of mobility” from the elevator systems turn into that final straw. And, on the considerations, we also need to include the plans to come up with changes that can be effective immediately, along with the long-term goals too.
Secondly, due to the lack of elevators, causing the levels of life, and the quality of life to deteriorate, it’d become, an oxymoron for the government’s measures in taking care of the elderly. And from this, the old apartments, trapping in the elderly in the population, due to the lacking of elevators, causing the elderly population to not have the quality of life that would, suffice.
And, the thoughts considered here, is no longer limited to “the beds we can’t get out of, the floors we can’t put our feet on, the doors we can’t cross over, with the inability to see the physicians as needed, which caused the inability to live out life, as normally as possible”. This is not just the solitary need, the individual needs of one elderly person, but the revolution that’s needed, for the post-elderly community era.
and this, is what it’s like, living in the older-styled apartments without the “amenities”…
And so, from the thin line between aging comfortably, and aging and trapped in, the focus should NOT solely be on long-term care, medical needs, but on how the considerations of elderly needs, elderly welfare, to help the elderly population age better.
And so, this is still on the lacking of the system, the environment is simply, NOT friendly enough for the elderly population, I mean, sure, there are, the accommodations for the wheelchairs, at MOST facilities, while there are the lacking of the ramps to the restaurants and such, where the family members had to, carry the wheelchair with the elderly in upward, to get to the dining place, because the buildings weren’t built in considerations of the aging population, and there are, rooms for, improvement that’s for sure!
Life, the Obstacle Course 