Most of us have a parent/grandparent who living separately and sometimes far away from their children. Especially when all the children have grown up to become adult, working and have their own family (husband/wife and child).
They may still strong and healthy, but prefer to maintain the independence and active life by their own. Parent and children meet/talk to each other on a regular basis, gathers during holiday’s season but still maintaining their separate life happily.
But that not the case if the they got old, alone and have not so good health. For them, immediate attention and help is required.
I knew a friend that live is US whose mother in late 70s and lives alone. He and his mother live in a different town. As she is getting older, he noticed that her mindset starting to deteriorate. She has trouble keeping her days straight and can’t remember any recent conversations they had.
She still driving but often gets lost in town because of new construction or road.
Still, she lives alone and gets by okay with day to day things like going groceries, cooking, gardening etc.
Worried for his mother, he mentioned about getting a maid or elder care in to do things around the house, but she gets offended and says if she needs help she’ll ask for it but she doesn’t need any help.
That when medical alarm became handy. After long and hard work tried to convince her to use the medical alarm bracelet, she finally agreed to use it. The thing is easy to use and he even able to track her mother current location from far by it GPS function. It has 24/7 live support too..
Tags: gps bracelet, live support, medical alarm, old care
January 13, 2009 at 12:10 am
I used a medical alarm with my mother and it worked forawhile, but as she grew more forgetful, she didn’tuse it as she should.
The number one rule of caregiving is that change is constant. You get your loved one situated and doing well–and things change–you have to readjust and find the next answer.
~Carol O’Dell
author of Mothering Mother: A Daughter’s Humorous and Heartbreaking Memoir
available on Amazon
http://www.mothering-mother.com
January 15, 2009 at 10:41 am
Malaysia two million Indians make up less than 8% of the population today nut have been the victims of the NEP policy since 1971.
Today after 51 years of independence, the definition for “Indian” has become a metaphor for backwardness.
Even though the median family income of Indian Malaysians according to official statistics is higher than that of malays, certain segments of the Indian Malaysians population live in with hardcore poverty and form part of the lowest strata in terms of economic ownership.
The official statistics show that the national wealth owned by Indians is only 1.2% of traded equity since 1971.
And according to Hindraf, 15% of Malaysian juvenile delinquents are Indian while 50% of all convicts in prison since 2004 and 41% of beggars in 2003 were Indians.
The percentage of Indians in the civil service fell from 40% in 1957 to less than 2% in 2005.
According to official records, 30 to 35 Indians per 100000 commit or attempt to commit suicide annually as compared to 10 to 12 Malaysians per 100000 in 2006.
In education, the Indians make up less than 5% of the university intake of over 45000 annually.
The Indians in the country are seeking equality after 51 years of independence and what Malaysia needs now is a sacrifice of the rich and super-rich of all races in staying clear of the NEP to allow the poor of all races to move up and progress.
March 4, 2009 at 7:04 am
First blog I read after wakeup from sleep today!
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