Care For Elderly

MAIN POINT/S

Care for the elderly is lacking in society.Improved living standards,Perception of elderly (old, useless)Values like fillial piety have eroded due to

increased ‘Westernisation.’’

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we discard and purge from our minds everything we don’t want and some people take this same attitude with the elderly.

Examples:

1) There have recently been calls for the government to enact legislation to make it mandatory for children to provide for their aged parents.

This shows that taking care of the elderly has been dismissed by the younger generation and they are left neglected as a result.

2) There is a growing "trend" among Malaysians to leave their aged parents to fend for themselves or to dump them in old folk’s homes, often without providing any form of assistance. Sickly old folk are also being left at hospitals, bus shelters and five-foot ways by their children.

Some good vocabulary:

1) Purge: An abrupt or violent removal of a group of people from an organization or place

2) Baggage: Past experiences or long-held ideas regarded as burdens and impediments

3) Machiavellian: Cunning, scheming, and unscrupulous, esp. in politics or in advancing one's career

4) Enact: Make law OR put into practice

5) Mandatory: Required by law or rules; compulsory

WE discard and purge from our minds everything we don't want or need.

Tattered bags and clothes that are no longer in fashion. Baggage from relationships past. Toxic Facebook "friends". Machiavellian developments within political parties.

All these clutter the mind or space, and are best thrown out with the rest of the day's refuse.

The same can be said for senior citizens. There have recently been calls for the government to enact legislation to make it mandatory for children to provide for their aged parents.

The reason: there is a growing "trend" among Malaysians to leave their aged parents to fend for themselves or to dump them in old folk’s homes, often without providing any form of assistance. There have also been cases of sickly old folk being left at hospitals, bus shelters and five-foot ways by their children.

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In our progressive society, many have the ability to take of their aged parents (elderly); it just a matter of whether they are willing to or not.

Examples:

1) Whatever has happened to filial responsibility, a core value of Asian culture? Have we become automatons consumed by our career- chasing lives?

It is like a rhetorical question asked here. Are we really so concern with our career lives that we can’t be concerned with taking care of the elderly? Or are we just using our career- chasing lives as excuses to shirk this responsibility?

2) But while there are some children who really cannot afford to provide for their parents, there are many who can take care of their parents with some adjustments to their lifestyles. They are just not willing to.

Some good vocabularies:

1) Testament: Something that serves as a sign or evidence of a specified fact, event, or quality

2) Automatons: A moving mechanical device that performs a function according to a predetermined set of coded instructions, made in imitation of a human being

3) Diminished: Make (someone or something) seem less impressive or valuable

These are shocking. And a damning testament to what we have become.

Whatever has happened to filial responsibility, a core value of Asian culture? Have we become automatons consumed by our career- chasing lives?

Or have modern living, dual income families, and the diminished role of the extended family, made it difficult, or even impossible, for children to care for their aged parents?

Every family may have its own unique set of problems, but while there are some children who really cannot afford to provide for their parents, there are many who can take care of their parents with some adjustments to their lifestyles. They are just not willing to.

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Improving living standards was the blame for the erosion of traditional intergenerational bonds.

Examples:

Asian cities on the economic leading edge are lagged behind in ethics education and filial piety.

Some good vocabularies:

1) Erosion: The gradual destruction or diminution of something

2) Ethics: Moral principles that govern a person's or group's behavior OR the moral correctness of specified conduct

3) League: A collection of people, countries, or groups that combine for a particular purpose

A study has blamed improving living standards for the erosion of traditional intergenerational bonds. It found that Asian cities on the economic leading edge, such as Shanghai, Guangzhou and Hong Kong, lag behind in ethics education and filial piety. Malaysia appears to be on its way to joining this super league.

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A group of senior citizens feel it is more constructive to do something about the issue rather than dwell on the whys and hows.

Examples:

. The National Council of Senior Citizens Organizations Malaysia proposed that the government set up more old folks homes, while various other suggestions have also been made

Some good vocabularies:

1) constructive: helping to improve; promoting further development or advancement

2)Twilight years: later years

3) waived: to refrain from claiming or insisting on; give up; forgo:

A group of senior citizens feel it is more constructive to do something about the issue rather than dwell on the whys and hows.

The National Council of Senior Citizens Organizations Malaysia proposed that the government set up more old folks homes. It is a practical idea, even if it is a sad one.

Various other suggestions have also been made, including that day care centres be set up for the aged, that people be encouraged to save for their twilight years, and that hospital fees for old people be waived.

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But more important than all these is a change in our attitude towards the aged.

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They ought not to be perceived as decrepit, burdensome beings to be cloistered away in dank dungeons, or cast away in boats with sufficient rations for a week.

Instead, they should be treated as the wellsprings of experience and knowledge that they areSome good vocabularies:

1) doddering: to shake; tremble; totter.

2) decrepit: weakened by old age; feeble; infirm: a decrepit man

3) cloistered: secluded

But more important than all these is a change in our attitude towards the aged. In such youth-obsessed times, it has become easy, even natural, to dismiss our elders as nothing but doddering irritations.

They ought not to be perceived as decrepit, burdensome beings to be cloistered away in dank dungeons, or cast away in boats with sufficient rations for a week.

Instead, they should be treated as the wellsprings of experience and knowledge that they are. They have lived lives vivid and full, and can impart much. They have, after all, filled in the colours on the canvas of many lives. (Some also look far better than many half their age).

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The government should not be made to compel the young to look after the old, nor should it take up sole responsibility for supporting the elderly.

Examples:

Many can and are still willing to work, but are not given the opportunity to.

Some good vocabularies:

1) compel:

to force or drive, especially to a course of action

Many can and are still willing to work, but are not given the opportunity to.

The government should not be made to compel the young to look after the old, nor should it take up sole responsibility for supporting the elderly.

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We should encourage - not legislate - families to take care of their aged parents and relatives.

Examples:

We should cherish the traditional notion of filial piety and not take the Western approach to a welfare society

Some good vocabularies:

1) thick and thin: hardships and smooth times

2) legislate: to create, provide, or control

We should cherish the traditional notion of filial piety and not take the Western approach to a welfare society.

In good times and in bad, it is important for families to pull together. True kinship sees everyone through thick and thin.

We should encourage - not legislate - families to take care of their aged parents and relatives.

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They must do what is necessary now so that they know care will be readily available for them

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Those still in youthful bloom that they, too, won't be young forever.

There is no more effective way to drive this message home than to remind all those still in youthful bloom that they, too, won't be young forever.

They must do what is necessary now so that they know care will be readily available for them, too, in the autumn and winter years of their lives.

WE MUST UPHOLD MERITOCRACY AND INCORRUPTIBILITY.

We provide opportunities for all, according to their ability and effort. We have confidence in our future.

Everyone ,regardless of age, should be allowed a chance to showcase their potential.In this case, including elderly. As stated earlier in the article, senior citizens (elderly) who have the capabilities should be offered the chance to provide for themselves. Though, their children ought to be responsible for their care, it should not be their sole responsibility.

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