Category Archives: Issues Surrounding Long-Term Care

After Her Hard Work in the Fruit Plantations, She’d Rushed to the Hospital to Care for Her Mother-in-Law Ching: I’m No Superwoman: I’d Given in, to My Destiny, Because of the Gentleness of My Mother-in-Law

https://video.udn.com/embed/news/899034 This, would be, the faces, of long-term care here right now, from the Front Page Sections, translated… “Mama Hsiang, Ms. Kao, Grandma, Mother-in-Law, Vuvu (grandparents in the Paiwan native tongue), I’m here to see you, how fast sleep you … Continue reading

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The Mother-Daughter Pair Who’d Battled Wits Constantly

The long, AND hard road, of providing long-term care to the elderly in the population, translated… I Was, Dumbfounded, as I’d Heard How the Mother-Daughter Pair Battled Wits, and I’d, Sighed on How Much Love and Patience Went into the … Continue reading

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The Caretakers Need a-Third of Their Lives Back

There are the available resources in the system, but, people don’t utilize them enough, translated… “Who knows the trials of the caretakers?” the online survey forum conducted a “Needs Assessment for Caretakers”, and found, that 73 percent of the families … Continue reading

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The Long-Term Care Programs Hadn’t Rooted Yet, the Services Don’t Grow, Even with the Money Allotted for the Programs

Due to the lack of the available workers, the policy wasn’t, well-thought-out one bit, from the Front Page Sections, translated… The Department of Sanitation Welfares pushed for the new version of Long-Term Care 2.0, and yet, there was only a … Continue reading

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Taking Care of the Ill and Elderly Parents

Hardships coming her way, in caring for her elderly demented father, translated… In order to care for her aging mother who was already showing signs of deterioration, my coworker, M, with whom I’d gotten along very well decided to retire … Continue reading

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Leaving a Demented Elderly Man Alone on His Own, the Indonesia Nurse’s Aide Who’d Run Off for Four Hours Was Charged with Abandonment

This, is the problems, with the migrant workers, watching over your elderly who are demented, or children who are very young, and this, is what’ll be happening, because this population, is aging fast, and there would be, many, many, and … Continue reading

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The Trials I Went Through Taking Care of My Husband I Won’t Put My Own Children Through Again

Another entry from the Caretakers’ journals, translated… After reading through the couple of articles in December on caretaking of elderly who’d lost their abilities, it’d made me recall back to eight years ago as my husband fell ill. My husband … Continue reading

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The Raises, the Bonuses, the Younger Caretakers Still Didn’t Increase by the Numbers

Because in order to work in this field, you not only needed the passions for it, you also need to be able to last a long time on the jobs!  From the Newspapers, translated… The government pushed forth the programs … Continue reading

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An Elderly Man Suspected of Being Impacted by Taking Care of His Sick Wife Long-Term, Suspected of Strangling Her to Death, Then Committing Suicide

A tragedy that could’ve been avoided, had the long-term care program be helpful enough, but it wasn’t, from the Front Page Sections, translated… A Seventy-Four Year-Old Elderly Man, Huang with his Seventy-Four Year-Old Wife of Fifty-Four Years Were Found Yesterday, … Continue reading

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The Sound of Hitting on the Windows to Get Help in the Nursing Home

Reflections from the fire in a nursing home that’s already lost its licensure to operate here, from the Front Page Sections, translated… The papers reported on a nursing home that had its license to operate suspended, and because there were … Continue reading

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