Category Archives: Issues Surrounding Long-Term Care

In the Geriatric Psych Ward, on Live-ing

picture from the papers… Translated… This, is the Elderly Psych Ward, a Unique Corner of the Hospital……… “Squeeze on the left, squeeze on the right, then, you can rid yourselves of hypertension…”, the nurse was working hard, leading us in … Continue reading

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If We Don’t Improve the Quality of Long-Term Care, Tragedies Will Occur Again

Upon thumbing across the recent tragedies of long-term care, from the Front Page Sections, translated… I’d just started wondering WHY it was, that all my friends LINED me, asked me if I had problems, handling my husband’s wellbeing after he’d … Continue reading

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The Hidden Missions of the Coastguard, Delivering Meals to Elderly Who Live Alone

Hearing the calls of help, and offering assistance, from the Newspapers, translated… Five Years Ago, the Man in Charge of the Sandy Bay Borough Mentioned of the Elderly’s Needs, the Captain of the Coastguard Went All Out, “Visiting the Elders”, … Continue reading

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Taking Care of the Demented Elderly, Make Sure that There’s the Quality of Life, and Love Too

Translated… The caretaking of the demented elderly population is in need of more research still, in the past, if considerations in the quality of life and the cost of living, the mildly demented individuals would fare the best at home; … Continue reading

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Left Us with the Broken Pieces of His Memories

As he’d become demented later on in life, he’d left with the broken pieces of his memories, and, because we were his kids, it’d become natural, that we had to, pick all of it back up. Left us with the … Continue reading

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Not Planning Out Human Resource in Long-Term Care, Causing Taiwan to be in Crises

With the population aging, there are, a LOT of the never-foreseen-before problems, just surfacing now, from the Front Page Sections, translated… The government finally agreed to raise the wages of the social welfare type of foreign helpers, and this had … Continue reading

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Becoming an Insect

Translated… It’s been ten years since my mother had been diagnosed with Alzheimer’s, not only was ALL of the memories she had of her former years completely deleted, she’d lost the ability for speech as well, and her caretaker can … Continue reading

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My Method of Caretaking

From someone’s experiences, translated… Working as a “Caretaker”, because those I looked after are usually ill or dependent on others, other than having that care and concerning nature, as well as empathy, I’d also needed to use my ability, to … Continue reading

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Going Strolling at the Botanical Garden with My Mother

Memories we shared, translated… “Tsan, if this were the olden days, the leaves would be all trimmed off.”, my mother pointed to the shell flower at the entry way to the Botanical Garden.  “Why?”, “Because as a festive gluten cake … Continue reading

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A Man Pulled the Plugs on His Own Mother Who Had a Stroke Then Smothered Her to Death, Claimed that He Was Way Too Strained From Caring for Her

A tragedy for the family here, from the Front Page Sections, translated… The forty-nine year-old man, Chiang yesterday, unplugged his own mother who had had a stroke for many years at the hospital, then, covered up her nose and mouth, … Continue reading

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