Elderly people to Nursehome for caring Flashcards
It is increasingly common for families to send their elderly relatives to live in nursing homes rather than take care of them at home. This essay will highlight some of the benefits and drawbacks that have resulted from this switch.
Looking firstly at the most significant advantage is that care-homes are often much better equipped to deal with the demands of elderly people than family homes. For instance, nursing homes do not usually have stairs, and for those which do, stairlifts or elevators need to be installed. This means that typical mobility problem which tend to appear among geriatrics are not exacerbated. Not only this, but the staffs who work at nursing homes have been professionally trained to manage the needs of the elderly. It is rare to family members to possess these kinds of expertise.
However, care homes for the elderly also some demerits, the most obvious of which is the lack of loved ones around. Although it is possible for fiends and relatives to visit nursing home residents, these visits can be infrequent, and loneliness is often the consequence. To make matters worse, it has been shown that those who are suffering from feeling of being abandoned, are more likely to be vulnerable in illness. Because the immune system will weaken. Furthermore, care home residents are often surrounding by illness and death. Such an environment is likely to curtail happiness and trigger server depression.
To sum up, in spite of (despite) the benefits of specially trained staff and well-equipped facilities that nursing homes can offer elderly, the drawbacks of loneliness and its concomitant depression (When two things come together) should also be taken into consideration.
