SOC246H1 Lecture Notes - Informa, Dementia
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Resident don"t know how to use the elevator. Weren"t given choices, the freedom they should have. The current system is wrong, disengages them from the society. How to change it? how to make people wish to stay there. They get to choose when they get up, eat, etc. Contradiction as some people, just keep sleeping if they"re permitted with the freedom. they don"t have anything to wake up to. Residents are never in their room. family members don"t provide as much emotional needs as the elderly expect, they rather focus on their own children as their first priority. It is a foreign environment, because their family members aren"t there. Greatest wish of one of the residents is to wake up dead. Residents chose to go to nursing home, as they don"t want to be a burden on their family members. Suggests that the current nursing home is for elderly with medical needs.
