OLD PEOPLE AND NURSING HOMES

In this day and age, the more developed the life is, the busier people are. This is a reason why a number of people have no time to take care their parents

National Economics University

Faculty of International Education

IBD program

TOPIC: OLD PEOPLE AND NURSING HOMES

JUNE 2010

Lastly, I hope that everybody reading this report will feel satisfied If I have carelessness, please sympathize with me.

Vu Thi Quynh Nga

Content

Part I : Introduction 4

 Topic 4

 Background 4

 Rational 4

 Purpose 4

 Methodology 5

 Scope of study 5

 Research question 5

 Literature review 5

Part II : Major findings 9

 What is nursing home? 9

 What are the reasons for living in nursing homes of old people? 10

 What is the situation of old people in nursing home? 16

 The feeling of old people when they live in nursing homes 17

 The advantages of nursing home 18

 The disadvantages of nursing homes 19

 What is the thought of student about taking old people to nursing homes in Vietnam? 21  Are nursing homes necessary? And why are they necessary?

Part IV: Conclusion 24

Part V: Preference 26

Part VI: Appendix 27

Introduction

Topic: Old people and nursing home

Title: The thought of students about :

 The concept of nursing home

 The reason for living in nursing homes of old people

 The lives of old people in nursing homes

Background:

In this day and age, the more developed the life is, the busier people are This is a reason why a number of people have no time to take care their parents,and one solution is put is that they take their parents to the nursing home where they think that their parents will have better life than outside A lot of opinions are given around this problem, some people agree but others disagree

Old people always want to have a warm life beside their children, but in some cases, there are not all of the old people having this ( ex: old people don’t have family or some of them are refused to take care by their children… ) , they are compulsory to choose to live in nursing home, and also many old people die in there in loneliness In this writing, the readers can find the fact of the old people’ lives in nursing homes

Rational: The reason why I choose this topic is that I am curious about the

lives of old people in nursing home Besides this , I also would like to know theideas of students about living in nursing home of old people and the thought ofstudents when adults take old people to nursing homes

Purpose:

 The purpose of this project is to investigate the thought of student about the reasons for living in nursing home of old people

 The outlook of student about feeling of old people in nursing home

 Student’s thought about necessary of nursing home and is this good or bad when adults take their old people to nursing home

Methodology: In order to collect data, I used both primary data and

secondary data.

 For the primary data, 30 questionnaires which include 11 surveyquestions were distributed to 30 National economic students in Ha Noi Then,the data were classified, synthesized and analyzed

 For the secondary data, i used some document on the internet such as : http://www.tin247.com/

de_bo_me_o_vien_duong_lao_khong_phai_la_bat_hieu-18-21282401.html ;http://tuoitre.vn/Chinh-tri-Xa-hoi/Phong-su-Ky-su/170553/On-nghia-sinh-thanh -Ky-cuoi-%E2%80%9CTrung-tam-bao-hieu%E2%80%9D.html

Scope of the study: in this writing, i will concentrate on the student in some

universities

Research questions

1 What is the nursing home?

2 What are the reasons for living in nursing homes of old people?

3 What is the situation of old people in nursing homes?

4 How do students think about taking old people to nursing homes.? Are nursing homes necessary?

Young people are free to do what they love in life in their house without disturbing their elderly people They can live their lifestyle and older people also live their own way in the heart of nursing This helps to avoid conflicts between two different generations living together in one house

The old people really can rest comfortably for the last stage of their lives without being annoyed by the work as going to market , cooking , house

cleaning, taking children to school and picking them home, worrying children when they fights, caring for the children, bathing and washing for children

The author also gives his opinion about money of the old people He said thatthe old people should not give their children all of the assets, they can only givethem when they die by wills

Taking the old people into nursing care is heartless ( unknown- Viet bao) http://vietbao.vn/Trang-ban-doc/Dua-nguoi-gia-vao-vien-duong-lao-la- nhan-tam/10985773/484/

The author of this newspaper said that he was very sympathetic to the ideathat the need for nursing Terms of nursing science is to solve the mostencumbered in modern life of man Putting the old people in nursing home isthe same with taking children in kindergarten so But that really has to be agood thing to do or not?

In his opinion , nursing home , if people look on the human side of it, like a

"prison", a "concentration camp" for the old people It creates utility forsociety, people who still have ability to work do not worry about their parents,but it is really unfair for the old people who have devoted their lives to theirfamilies and society, and then they have to return in the cold home and livealone in a small space like that

There should be multiple rates for nursing home( unknown- tin274) http://www.tin247.com/nen_co_nhieu_muc_gia_cho_trung_tam_duong_lao -18-21282407.html

Currently the life of our people have been improving, the family has only one

or two children On the other hand, because of the market mechanism and thedemands of the job so the young people do not have time to take care of theirparents If they can take care, they are not professional to help their old people.From the author point of view , these reasons why Viet Nam should extend theservices for the old people, regarding funding, there should be a prescribedlowest price for basic services, and other advanced services depends on theconditions of each person registered So what, at first opinion cannot support,

but if the center works well and effectively they will surely be appreciated andsocial support.

Need to change perception nursing home(unknown-viet bao)

lao/10984740/484/

http://vietbao.vn/Trang-ban-doc/Can-thay-doi-quan-niem-vien-duong-In this article , the author said that her mother has problem about metal health, so she does not know how to take care his mother while she has to go forworking Everyday she always worries about her mother , if she lets her mother

at home and lock the door, she feels uncomfortable So she believes thatnursing home is the best way to help her and her mother, she wants everybody

to change their thought about nursing home She herself wants her old life in anursing home with a relative comfort to live happily, live healthily and notbother anyone

Nursing home is not suitable to Vietnam's conditions( unknown- tin 274 http://www.tin247.com/vien_duong_lao_chua_phu_hop_dieu_kien_viet_na m-18-21298965.html

In this writing, the author said that nursing home in Viet Nam is not goodand suitable for old people He gave some reasons below

Firstly , the nursing home has yet developed, people in there are notprofessional to take care old people

Secondly , psychology, habits and lifestyles of Vietnam are very differentfrom Europe, America, this remedy is not easy

Thirdly is the funding problem The old people do not have enough capital tocover their own for themselves, especially in rural areas, but this rate in ourcountry is high

He is sure that if our country is a nursing model in advanced countries as itsurely will attract the old people It is also an effective form of business andfuture for an increasing elderly and thinking also changed the rhythm ofindustrial life

Let parents live in nursing home is not ungrateful towards parents http://www.tin247.com/

de_bo_me_o_vien_duong_lao_khong_phai_la_bat_hieu-18-21282401.html

The author of this writing is opinion of taking parents to nursing home Hesaid that the model of nuclear families was upward trend in comparison with themodel of traditional families in Viet Nam nowadays He supposed that this wasapodictic thing because of its advantages This makes children have moreconfidences in our lives, …, especially avoid the conflicts which are toocomplicated by so many generations in a family As a result in a family, thereare children and their families, not grandparents or older generations

However some people also argued that the elderly people do not live withtheir families is not appropriate This is not exact because in fact although oldpeople live with their children, they may not be cared of by their children , eventhe person caring them may be a housekeeper He also said that there weresome adults being not responsible to take care, even they pushed responsibilitiesfor each other On the contrary if old people stay in nursing home, they will becared well about both health and spirit

In conclusion, he believed that Old people living in nursing home felt betterthan lived with their families with suffering unhappiness , tiredness because ofconflicts between different generation

Major findings

I, WHAT IS NURSING HOME?

There are many ideas about concept of nursing home In the first part of this writing, some ideas about what nursing home is of Vietnamese student will be showed

This chart reflects the thought of student in some universities in Ha Noiabout concept of nursing home

As can be seen obviously that the number of students choosing the fourthconcept about nursing home( Nursing home is a place where old people arecared of and helped to have a better life) is by far the highest, 44%, comparedwith other ideas The second place belongs to the first concept ( Nursing home

is a place where old people who don’t have house or children to take care ofthem live) with 26% people choose The percentage of students choosing thethird concept being half of this chooses the fourth concept accounts for 21% in

total There are not many people choose the concept being that Nursing home is

a place where old people who are going to die live, this ratio makes up about8% The smallest proportion of choosing is on other ideas, just 1% studentchoose this idea

With nearly 44% people chooses the fourth concept, this can be said thatmost of student think that living in nursing home, old people are cared of andhelped to have a better life

However a more interesting thing is that besides four concepts about nursinghome given, 1% people giving their own ideas are also real For example:Some people have common ideas is that nursing home is like kindergarten ofold people When they asked why they thought this, they argued that there was

no difference between nursing home and kindergarten Others think thatnursing home is like old people’s families , or homes , old people can liveecomfortably in there…

To conclude, these data collected support the idea that most of people have a

positive view about nursing home.

“A nursing home is a place for people who don't need to be in a hospital butcan't be cared for at home Most nursing homes have nursing aides and skillednurses on hand 24 hours a day Some nursing homes are set up like a hospital.The staff provides medical care, as well as physical, speech and occupationaltherapy There might be a nurses' station on each floor Other nursing homes try

to be more like home They try to have a neighborhood feel Some nursinghomes have special care units for people with serious memory problems such asAlzheimer's disease Some will let couples live together Nursing homes are notonly for the elderly, but for anyone who requires 24-hour care.”

students served as subjects to answer five questions in the survey questionnaire

of this research designed to investigate the thought of student about thisproblem

First of all, a conditional question which was handed in to students showedtheir opinions about taking their elderly people to nursing home or not

This pie chart reflects the rate of students answering yes or no to question: Ifyour family had old people, would you want to take them to nursing home Itcan be seen obviously that 90% student chose “No” and the rest of them chose

“Yes” These figures seem to show that most of the students do not want to taketheir old people or parents to nursing home

After the conditional question, two suppositional questions were set in order

to investigate more clearly about reason for living in nursing home of oldpeople In particular these questions were concentrated on the personal reasonand objective reason of individual

Two pie chart reveal the percentage of students choosing dissimilar answers

in two different reasons personal and objective reason for questions involving

to take old people to nursing home

In the first pie chart, the question which was provided is that “ Withsupposition that you have to take old people to nursing home, What are the yourpersonal reasons?” It can be seen from graph that the rate of students choosingthe first answer covers by far the highest figure with 46% in total The secondbiggest area belongs to next reason: I don’t have enough support (ex: money,accommodation ) This comprises to 27% of total Interestingly the proportion

of students choosing the third reason ( I don’t like living with old people) is thesmallest constitutes to 8%, while the ratio of students ticking to other ideas orother reasons being bigger than that of choosing the third reason account for19% When students who chose other ideas were asked for these reasons orideas, a general answer which was given was that they had no personal reason.They said that they wanted to their parents or old people live with them, andthey would care old people by themselves A girl said that she always wanted totake care of her parents although she would be poor or rich She would like tospend her time on her parents Contrary to students choosing three reasonsabove, students of last reason are very determined to live and care their parents

in any situation

In comparison with chart of personal idea, in chart of objective reasons alsohas some outstanding features The first place and second place come to thepercentage of students choosing the first reason and the third reason, namely

“Old people like living in nursing home , so I let them live in there” and “there

is safer life in nursing home than outside” These make up 40% and 30%respectively The rate of students choosing the reason being that “following thetrend” consists of 12% in total Just 9% students tick for Other ideas

When the data are analyzed according to the pie chart, it is found that most ofthe student asked cannot live and take care of their parents or old people unlessthey are too busy, they have no spare time They do not want to take theirparents or old people to nursing home unless old like living in there, so they aretaken to

Besides the reasons for living in nursing home of old people which comesfrom their children or their families, these also come from old peoplethemselves

There is a similar percentage of people choosing the first reason( old people

do not have house or children, so they want to find a place to live till they die)and the forth reason( old people are compelled to live by their children orfamilies) These stand at 27% The second position is recorded by the level ofstudent ticking the reasons being that “ old people are refused be cared for bytheir children or families” This is up to 23% About 14% of students think that

old people feel tired and exhausted to their life , so they choose nursing home tolive Other reasons are turned in by 9% of students.

In conclusion most of the students think that old people live in nursing homebecause of not having house or children to be taken care of, and beingcompelled to live by their children

Although three questionnaires in this survey are set with supposition, in factthere is no less situation happening with old people’s lives In this day and age,people’s lives are busier and busier, hence this is easy to understand why adults

do not have enough time to care of their parents or old people However nothing

is impossible, problem just is that they would like to take care of their parents ornot Some families who are not rich, even poor, but they still want to care fortheir old people They supposed that old people would have the best life whenthey are lived with their children or families On the contrary despite havingrich life and comfortable, some families refuse or give up living with their oldpeople They argued that Old people is very complicated and make them feeltroublesome It is a good solution to push old people out or take them to nursinghome

Also there are some situations old people are so credulous that they arecheated by their own children In contrast to this problem, others are voluntary

to live in nursing home because of thinking to their children’s lives Taking anexample for the first position, one circumstance is given like a special problem.One old man transferred his own house to their children after hearing theinsistency of his children His daughter said that she was very poor and neededhis house bought He accepted , however, after receiving the amount of moneyhis daughter needed, she gave him 2000$ and said hẻ father that he becameuseless and she would not take care him more, he should hold 2000$ and find aplace to live by himself He and his wife had to rent a house and live with2000$ Finally, his wife passed away and he had to find to nursing home andlive lonely

Another example is given for the second situation is that some parents knowthat their families or children are too poor or busy, so they are voluntary to go

to nursing home to avoid the difficulties for their families or children

When everything has been discussed above, a conclusion can be drawn thatmost of students today would rather take care of their old people or parents thantake them to nursing home except old people would like to live in nursinghome

III, WHAT IS THE SITUATION OF OLD PEOPLE IN NURSING HOMES IN VIETNAM ?

 The feeling of old people when they live in nursing home.

First of all, it is important to know how old people feel when they live innursing home For this reason, 30 questionnaires are handed out to 30 studentsand 30 old people to take compare the thought of student about feeling of oldpeople in nursing home and old people’s real feeling when they live in oldpeople’s home

Two pie chart below reflect this

It is obvious that in the first chart the highest fertility rate is for “lonely, sad”

at almost 43% students choose This is the same to chart second chart, when theratio of old people choosing the second feeling is by the highest In contrast tothe percentage of students choosing the first idea (happy, cozy, comfortable) inchart A which makes up 21% is just half of the level of old people choosing thisidea that accounts for roughly 40% Some other ideas which are that “thefeeling of old people when they live in nursing home depend on each peopleand their reason” ; “ old people may feel happy, but sometime they sad; oldpeople do not like to live in nursing home” ; “30% old people feel happy andsatisfactory, and 70% old people miss their”… are covered by around 21%students On the contrary, there are no old people choosing “Other idea” Thesmallest proportion students choosing belongs to the third idea ( normal) with15% Meanwhile, the third idea being chosen by old people is recorded by just10% in total

It can be concluded that most of student in this investigation recognize that old people feel “ lonely and sad” when they live in nursing home

This question is set with purpose is that outsider can know about living of oldpeople in nursing home

The pie chart represents the thought of students about advantages of oldpeople when they live in nursing home

As can be seen that the third idea ranks a top the survey at 30% ( old peopledon’t feel lonely and sad because they have more friend to chat orcommunicate) This shows that the biggest advantage of old people living innursing home is that they have friends In fact, a sense of community is aadvantage of nursing home People of all ages prefer to have at least somecontacts with others in their own age When elderly parents live with their busydaughters or sons , they feel sorrow because they cannot share their thought tochildren In nursing home , they have friends to communicate share the sameideas,