Changes In Old Folk's Home

People have their own reason on why they sending their parents to the old folk’s home. For some this is necessity because of job commitments and lack of time to genuinely attend to their needs. A lot of them do this at the bidding of their life partners for purely selfish reasons. Sometimes people have no choice when the home environment is really bad or inadequate. Of course the perceived ideal is to live with the adult children and have grandchildren around them, but life does not go that way. Then, the alternative is to be put in a home where the physical needs are seen to and there is opportunity for a social life as well, all within the confines of the old folk’s home. That is, family plays an important role in order to built family institution. Since children were born, all parents try to put their full effort to provide all the aspects which are necessary for a human being to grow up and success in life.
Old folk’s home is the place where the older people is send by their family or they came by themselves in order to have extra attention due to the illness or disability. The things here, do you think that is the right way by sending parents to the old folk’s home? There are many people nowadays, in this hectic lifestyle, which have elderly parents that can’t be left alone for many reasons. For example, they require too much care and supervision so they don’t just wander off. This is the way so that they have to choose between having the elderly parents come and live with them, or placing the elderly parents in assisted living or a the old folk’s home. It’s never an easy choice, but sometimes there really is no choice.
Malaysian nowadays always think that it is not good and rude to send their parents to the old folk’s home, and starting to blame people who choose to send their parents there. In other words, a parent is under children’s responsibility. Indeed, this mentality must be changed because some children have their reasonable reason on why they sending their parents to the old folk’s home. We have our responsibility in changing the negative thinking among the public about this issue. As we know, old folk’s home nowadays is not as bad as what they imagine. They provide high quality of care to the elderly based on fairness, effectiveness, efficiencies, responsiveness, and integration. Based on this mission, there are some improvement that have to be maintained on how to change their mentality about this issue.
Firstly, we have to change standard name of the old folk’s home to a better name and sound friendly.For example, “Rumah Orang-orang Tua” is change to a special name like “Rumah Sri Indah”. It is resemble with the rehabilitation center which have it’s specific name, Rumah Pengasih. Then, the authorities or Non-Government Organization should provide the place with enough facilities with good accommodation.
Next, the system in that organization itself. They have to know that this is not just a welfare organization, but place where good accommodation, medical and nursing care for elderly suffering or recovering from any sickness and physical disability can we get. From this statement, there must be some goals have to be achieved. Therefore, they have to provide love and care to the residents irrespective of background, race, status, sex, age, religious, disability, belief or contribution to the society. They also must provide rehabilitation to residents with the aim of maximizing their remaining functional to cognitive ability and returning them to their community and loved ones, if possible. Then, they have to provide seamless community care suppert services for the elderly and their rehabilitated residents to enable them to stay in their own homes for as long as possible. Then the system has to improve care standards through research, training, and education, monitoring and review of outcomes.
Based on equipment, they have to make sure that they provide quality of excellence in care, environment, food, furnishing and activities. In addition, each residents have their right to privacy in room, bath and personal possessions so that the facilities adjustment can be marked as in high quality condition. There also must be some counselor that can help each residents adjust to physical intellectual and emotional limitations and still can find satisfaction in daily living. They also must give moral support and comfort at all times and to preserve the right to die with dignity with courage and in peace.
Staff’s there also has to be friendly, not only to residents there, but also with their family members. They have to make welcome at all times to them and encourage to be part of the Home. If anything happen, staff has to inform residents and their families of any medical and nursing treatment the residents may receive in the Home.
For the conclusion, the existence of the old folk’s home has it advantages and disadvantages. The important thing is, the government, organization and the children themselves must together support to upgrade the quality of the old folk’s home so that the mentality of Malaysian people would be changed.