Elderly people are nowadays being sent to old aged homes rather than being looked after by a family in homes. Do the advantages of old aged homes outweigh the disadvantages?
. Benefits
- These places are well-equipped with facilities and aids needed to support the elderly.
- These places offer a comfortable environment due to people being of similar age group: preventing a feeling of alienation
- Offers security to the elderly, specifically those who either do not have an offspring or their wards are living in different locations
- Offers shelter and food to homeless senior citizens
Drawbacks
- These are expensive facilities which cost taxpayers a lot, making them pay for someone’s callous approach towards their parents
- The environment of such places is morbid(gloom, sad) as against pleasant: death and illness is a frequent sight
- One cannot, despite offering several facilities, take away the feeling of loneliness and abandonment that afflicts those in their autumn years
The biggest calamity of shifting family settings have been the elderly who are left to fend for themselves, and thus end up in old age homes, but do these establishments shelter the lonely abandoned from misfortunes, or do these add to woes of the aged, is a matter profoundly pondered into.
These
establishments afford all possible facilities to the ones in their twilight
years: medical care and support, and help in performing every chores, to name a
few. They are equipped with systems and surroundings that present little hazard
to the older people: having but elevators instead of stair to climb to higher
floors, or not having slippery floors that could cause injury, and also
appropriately designed toilets and showers that are suited to the needs
of ageing individuals, which a family can never imagine providing to their
older family members.
Nevertheless, quite contrary to the veneration which many render, these locations are no less than a torment for the ageing inhabitants. These are confinements that are seldom frequented by family members, leaving the senior citizens emotionally drained since they can rarely participate in the merry moments with their loves ones, for which they worked throughout their lives, but are condemned to lead a life of rejection that also in their twilight years when they need emotional support of their loved ones the most. Moreover, these locations are not some places that afford merrymaking, but some dungeons that offer traumatic surroundings that are plagued by distressing sights of illness and death.
No comments:
Post a Comment
Note: Only a member of this blog may post a comment.