What it looks like, for modern day man, as we’re, living to, very elderly, written by a homecare provider, off of the Front Page Sections, translated…
The UDN Papers reported from awhile ago, that Taiwan had marched into the super elderly era, the problems that the society faces as a whole is worth discussing. As a home care provider, and, a member of the aging population, I’d felt, especially deep over this. Although, it’s said, that nothing stays constant, that plans will never catch up to change, but, if we can be prepared, ahead of times, that way, when things happen, we won’t be, caught off guard so awfully, to becoming, too flustered to take actions to provide for our own needs. I shall share a case I’d, worked:
An elderly couple who live together, the husband, before falling ill, was a C.E.O. of a well-run company, and yet, he was, hit hard by a brain tumor, suddenly, his life switched, he’d become, reliant on everything in his life, going to the hospitals for physical therapy, feeding, caretaking, now all relied on his wife’s help. The man couldn’t accept this suddenly, he’d become, totally, depressed, and, his body losing its function caused his temperament to flip, he’d often gotten malicious on his own wife, and, attempted suicide. There’s no bedroom nor bathrooms on the first floor of their home, the elderly man started, staying put on the couch 24/7, and, relied on his wife to carry the buckets of hot water for his bath. The man was quite passive toward physical therapy, to applying for long-term care assistance, in the encouragement of the homecare providers, the man finally started, getting serious with his own, physical therapy, trying to, get himself, well again.
There was another elderly who lives alone who’d been a bigshot in real estate investments, although he didn’t have worries of the economic sort, he was tough in his character, and, if he wasn’t feeling well, he would make sure that the rest of his own family doesn’t have it easy either, and, the children and grandchildren all chose to, stay far, far away from him. Later, he’d hired a nurse to take care of him, but he was always, too suspicious, that she was stealing things from him, and, all the hired help all quit. In the cold temperatures of the winter, sometimes, he’d lain on the icy cold floors for hours, to half a day in time, his face turned white, with nobody around to help him up, and waited until his own son made the meal deliveries, and found him and helping him back up. Day after day after day he’d, lived like so, until he became, bedridden completely, and, the families can only, place him in a nursing home.
And now, it takes more than money, to be, put into, assisted living. Due to the limit number of beds, you’d have to make the reservations for those homes that are, higher enough in quality of care; and, for the average nursing homes, you’d had to be on the waiting list for a bed too.
From this, you can see, once society marches into super elderly, money does NOT solve everything, if you don’t have your health, then, you have, absolutely, NOTHING! Without the regular connections with the families, no accumulation of watching out for our own health, money doesn’t guarantee the quality of life at all. How to help the elderly age gracefully to the very end of their lives, this is, a matter of, not just personal, but also, national, security.
And so, this still just showed, how the connections with our families is too important in the earlier years of our lives, I mean, if you don’t spend the time with your own young when they were young, how the HECK can you expect them to show you ANY care or concerns when you’re, elderly, and in need of their care or attention, so, this still starts with the family.
Life, the Obstacle Course 