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
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.
Topic sentence here is:
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 fivefoot 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
Topic sentence here is:
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.
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 careerchasing 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.
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
Topic sentence here is:
Improving living standards
was the blame for the erosion
of traditional intergenerational
bonds.
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.
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
Topic sentence here is:
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.
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:
Topic sentence here is:
But more important than
all these is a change in our
attitude towards the aged.
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).
Examples:
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
Some good vocabularies:
1)
doddering: to
shake; tremble;
totter.
2)
decrepit: weakened
by old age; feeble;
infirm: a decrepit
man
3)
cloistered:
secluded
Topic sentence here is:
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.
Examples:
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.
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
Topic sentence here is:
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.
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
Topic sentence here
is:
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.
They must do what
is necessary now so
that they know care
will be readily
available for them
Examples:
Those still in youthful
bloom that they, too,
won't be young
forever.
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.
THANK YOU!!!