Elderly people

Many elderly people are no longer looked after by their families but are put in care homes or nursing homes. What are the advantages and disadvantages of this trend?

Today, individuals tend to opt for institutional care for the elderly rather than take care of them themselves. In general, this trend contains several upsides and also negative consequences.

Specifically, one evident strength is that it would set free for most people nowadays. As old people become weaker and weaker, they really need careful and special care from their children who are mostly busy with busy with work as well as busy. Accordingly, were adults to spend time looking after them, they would not be able to accomplish tasks or meet deadlines for a project. Hence, thanks to those services, people can work and do their hobbies more smoothly. Furthermore, taking the elderly to nursing houses will contribute to less conflicts and discomfort. Particularly, when we live in an extended family, there are sometimes acrid arguments between parents, children and grandparents as the old and young generation are never on the same language in everything. Also, our spaces in homes are shared for the old which affects our freedom and privacy. For these reasons, making the elderly live in institution will help families to enjoy their life more.

Nevertheless, some downsides of this trend need noticing. First, the poor usually cannot afford to have their old relatives move to caring centers since they have to pay an enormous amount of money for the nurses to buy food and clothes for them. Secondly, the elderly themselves have to experience some restrictions to what they like. For instance, because of too many people living in a house, some aged individuals are rarely allowed to listen to heavy mental or dance which is their leisure activity. If they did that freely, others would get bothered by the music and footsteps. Finally, old people are not always well-adjusted to such a new environment where there are full of strangers, while all they need is their loving grandchildren and relatives. Consequently, it perhaps takes so long for them to adjust and causes loneliness too.

Overall, however advantageous this trend is, that is to give the young individuals more enjoyment in life, they, mainly aged ones, have to face numerous troubles which are the costs, their being restricted to recreation and sadness.

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