My mom told me when she gets old she does not want to live in a senior's home.
I don't think a lot of seniors like to live there.
I once interviewed 2 por pors who live in a senior's home close to Chinatown. One was single all her life (no family) so she was sort of okay.
The other one furnished her room with tons of pictures of her children and grandchildren. What I think is, yes, her basic care is taken care of. She can even socialize with friends of her age if she wants. Yet she seems so lonely! I was a complete stranger to her but after the interview, she asked me if I could visit her again if I have time...
I also had a por por friend (no family) living in a senior's home in HK. Whenever I visit her and take her out for yum cha, the nurses and other gung gung por por living there will say "so happy ar, someone bring you out". My feeling is none of them wanted to stay there.
Yeah I agree. It's understandable that some elders are scared of going to the elderly nursing home. Although it's not like all of them there are sick, physically handicapped, incurable diseases or have any other health issues, but there are some. So while staying there, seeing all those people taking pills here and there, mumbling unknown words, and stuffs, it can be quite depressing.
I guess it really depends on how good the nursing home is. For example, some have TV in a big living room for everyone to share, some have space for everyone to have tv at his/her own room; some have exciting outreach programs and activities, some are perhaps quite boring.
I agree with 華美子, and maybe it's something young people can't understand.
Taking kids to kindergarten =/= taking kids to daycare center =/= taking seniors to senior home!
Taking kids to kindergarten is like a "must", for they should have their studying lives started earlier. But if kids who need special care, regular kindergarten won't suit them. Daycare center is for those "busy parents", for they "do not have time to take care their kids during day time", so daycare center is one of their options. But again, if their kids need special care, regular daycare won't suit them.
For senior home, they have all kinds of seniors in good health to weak or even special care is needed. And why would you send your healthy old parents to senior homes? Only because you don't want to take care of them. Right?
My grandpa and grandma have an apartment in downtown. They enjoy their life together very much. Their daily routine life is the same every day but they enjoy it. It's better for them to life in an odlie home.
原帖由 Ultraman 於 2008-1-21 15:14 發表
I agree with 華美子, and maybe it's something young people can't understand.
Taking kids to kindergarten =/= taking kids to daycare center =/= taking seniors to senior home!
Taking kids to kindergar ...
I disagree. If you send your children to daycare, that means you don't want to take care of them? Maybe some parents DO think like that. Senior's home is good because
1) They have good care there
2) They get to hang out people of their age
Of course, just like choosing kingergarden, senior's home needs to be chosen carefully as well. In the early days, it might be the case that senior's homes in hong kong / china were really crappy and were for people who want to dump their parents.
發表於 2008-1-20 19:41
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