On long-term care policy provisions here, how the personnel are all, unstable, due to the lacking of provisions set up by the government here, off of the Front Page Sections, translated…
Seeing how the outbreaks had, slowed down, the Alzheimer care locations and the daycare centers are finally opening up again, this is also, the expectations of the families. During the outbreaks, a lot of the families are crushed by the burdens of caretaking, and the reopening of the facilities is finally able to, help reduce the stresses, and at the same time, we set out, and in a week’s time, we’d visited the ten care locations, to show the concerns we have towards preventing the spread of MERS-CoV also to show our support.
Visiting all the locations, I’d felt touched, for instance, the centers only stopped operating for a couple of months, and there are, so many, new workers there, and the elderly who’d come to the centers would need those extra encouragements, so they can, get back. The partners asked me what qualifies a location as a well-operated one. My answer is stable wages and stable personnel, but this is too easy in theory, while in practice, this is, too hard to make. For instance, during the time the services got halted in the outbreaks, the workers, due to the lacking in wages, looked for other jobs.
I’d asked the managing facilities, and they’re already, stressed over things big and small, and told us to get all our hands on deck, so we can work through this together, but the meanings of their words are, too clear: “so long as the daycare centers are up and running, the government will allot the moneys, and if you don’t work here, someone else will!” It’s no wonder, that a lot of the frontline workers complained, that they’re all, expandables.
The director of the center I visited on that day was a retired serviceman, and I’d asked, “if that’s the beliefs of the government officials, then, shouldn’t it be easier, if the military started running these, facilities? An order, an action.” He’d said in a heartfelt manner, “it doesn’t matter who works here, every year there are the plans that we applied for, and after we got approved, we’d put the plans into practice, so long as we’re able to spend the costs where it counts.”
I’d then asked, “but doesn’t the accumulated experiences matter? Is it not important, not valuable, the accumulated professionalism, the ability to work efficiently in the systems?”, he’d only smiled at me, bitterly. And I can’t help but called out, these are all the key requirements of the long-term care daycare centers!
Based off of these visits I’d made, I’d found, that what a difference having stable personnel can bring to the centers. For instance, for the five-year-plan, if there are the same people who’d made those plans and carried them out in sum, so long as the daycare center opened back up again, then the elders who are originally cared for there would return immediately. Everybody gets started on the activities without any catching up to day, and there are the online classes offered too, the center was already loud and active in the early mornings then, and the center served its purpose of companionship for the elderly and helping the elders get socially active. But I’d also witnessed how the centers that didn’t have set personnel on staff, that’s not set up and run for a long time, the elders didn’t return to the location by the herd, but only one here, one there, as the facility workers aren’t familiar with the elderly, and the elderly not familiar with the workers either.
I believe, that those who are willing to work in the long-term care industries, all have the kindness of thoughts in them, but, with just that thought of kindness, the workers can’t even survive, and you can’t keep the staff members for long, then, how can we ask for the quality of services being provided? And so, the outbreaks is not only a trial for all, but also, a reflective mirror of sorts, to help us think about how to switch our operating modes, how to make sure the teams work together well.
And unfortunately, the trials will only hit us again, and again, for instance, the governments only signed on the workers for a year’s period, and it’d, fixed up the systems, as something goes wrong in it, and the outbreaks doesn’t seem to be ending anytime soon, the families who are hit hard economically, can’t even make the requirements of caretaking either, and so, there’s, this need for the professional caretakers onboard, who understand how the community works, and to execute the plans well, but, these professionals can’t grow out of the ground easily, nor can they use the mindset of “voluntarily giving”, I hope, that everybody can help think of ways to improve the caretaking scenes, to provide more of a service-oriented means of the daycare centers for the demented elderly.
And so, the problems are related to not having stable personnel in the systems, because, we can’t all wait around, for the jobs to call us back to work, we got families to raise, ends to make meet, etc., etc., etc., and the system just doesn’t run smoothly enough yet, and so, this is still, a problem with the policies, that extended down to the levels of the individual daycare centers here.
Life, the Obstacle Course 