Category Archives: Elderly Caretaking

Building a Friendly Community for the Demented Elderly, Helping Them Come Home

As we’re, already in the era of, super elderly here, off of the Front Page Sections, translated… There’d been the families of demented elderly who’d told me, “you kept calling to the public to take a note of the matter … Continue reading

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Who Will Carry Grandma Around?

On how much the families relied on the help of these foreign hired household helpers to care for the aging elderly population, translated… Today, finally, Dun’s turn came to get the vaccination. As she’d fed grandma, and taken grandma to … Continue reading

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His Mind, Invaded by Dementia

Dementia, started, invading his mind, first, it was, only, one single, neuron, then, the dendrites, axons of that one neuron atrophied, and, the atrophies started, spreading across the entire population of his, brain cells, paralyzing every last one of ‘em … Continue reading

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The Man Had Smothered His Own Paralyzed & Bedridden Mother to Death, the D.A. Asked the Courts to Take Him into Custody, the Courts Signed Off on it

Another case of, mercy killing, or simply because the man can, no longer, handle the burdens???  Tragedies like this, will keep on, happening, over, over, and over, especially now, as we live longer, the lack of provisions and support from … Continue reading

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The Dignities to Live Out the Elderly Years, Money Doesn’t Resolve Everything

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 … Continue reading

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Using the Long-Term Care Provisions to Help the Separate Families to Gain the Required Skills to Care for Elderly Who Can’t Take Care of Themselves

The mindset of the family members must change, to not think, that if their elderly loved ones is being looked after by professionals, then, they wouldn’t have to put in the time to care for their elderly families, off of … Continue reading

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Be Well, in Order to Provide the Care for Those Who Need You

You must take good care of yourselves, before you can, take care of, anyone, else, hello, hello, hello???  Isn’t that the GOLDEN rule???  Uh, D-U-H!!!  Translated… Upon reading “Caring for the Self, or Taking Care of, My Whole Family” by … Continue reading

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The Dramatics of Life

A movie on elderly caretaking, that made the writer connect to the characters’ experiences, and what the writer came to understand, about life, and growing older, translated… Seventy-three days after my mother passed, my older brother wrote on FB of … Continue reading

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The Fifty-Two Year-Old Man Jumped into the River to Commit Suicide, His Elderly Mother Found Smothered to Death at Home

Tragedies of, long-term care, again, from the Front Page Sections, translated… The fifty-two-year-old man, Jiang lived in with his eighty-one-year-old elderly mother with oral cancer, Jiang attempted suicide by jumping off into a river to drown himself, his mother was … Continue reading

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Burning the Ants, Burned Down the House?  Two Elderly Who Died

An arsonist, with the priors, of, “playing with fire”, the demented elderly who’d set the fire by accident, and killed the fellow residents of an illegally run “nursing home”, off of the Front Page Sections, translated… There was a house … Continue reading

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