Saturday, July 12, 2008
thoughts by us;;
{{shairah;;-After visiting the home, my opinion of the officers there change....i thought that they were caring and will care for the elderly...but after what i saw, i find out that they are just normal people who will get irritated by the old people's attitude. On the first day that we went there, the officer was very strict and said that we could not take pictures of the elderly there. Uncle Lee also had complaint that the officer would scold the elderly if they misbehave. To me that was very unkind of them. On the second day i came, there is a different officer. This offficer was much more nicer than the previous one. He would talk to us kindly when he asked us to do something and he also treat the elderly nicely. He is also a funny man and often make us laugh. I really enjoyed myself there that day.
{{Huiping;;After visiting the home, i feel that the old people there is very poor thing. The officer there is terrible!!! During the first day exercise, one of the in-charge just tell one of the uncle " You can stand right!" i feel that she got no respect to the old people there. Later he just drag another uncle to the front, but the uncle refused and she just say "You people are veri stubborn". I was very disapointed and angry when the in-charge do that to the old people. I think the folks there were very friendly, there will say hi to you when they saw you. I think we did a very good job there by entertaining the folks there because we saw the happy faces shown from them. They also like the cranes we did for them. Hope that we can go back and entertain them as a group as i enjoy myself.
{{Valerie;; To me, after visiting the home, I felt that people that worked in the home doesn't really care for the elderly &don't fit the way that people think of them. They don't respect the elderly at all. &when we talked to the elderly, they actually said that they don't like the home, they wanted to get out from the home. But sometimes, the faces actually showed happiness. Why? I guess it's from our accompany because the officer that is nicer, whom Shairah mentioned, said that the elderly actually wanted to see new faces. So, when they saw us, they actually showed happiness when they talked to us or played with us. They can even dance with us, so what do you think? In Jamiyah home for the aged, I actually learn a lot. We must be patience with the elderly whenever we talked to them &we must show happy faces in order to make them happy. (:
{{Omairah;; What i had learnt from this visit to the home is unforgetable. Before the visit, i always thought that the people in the home are nice people and the elderly living there are happy.After listening to the complaints made by Uncle Lee, i started to think everything in a different perspective.Most of the elders' needs were not met, and even the people working there tend to scold the elderly.However, to me, that was why the school asked us to visit the homes.Maybe they wanted us to see the reality of the homes in Singapore.I know that i will surely go back to the home just to see their smiling faces when they see us. Even when i saw them colouring a picture, it made me think, 'This should be done by a child, why is an old man doing this?'.And it is really touching when you look at them and their face will suddenly beam with happiness.Even the crane that we gave them, they treated it as if its the most precious thhing to them.Maybe, i will also grant Uncle Lee's wish on having their complaints published on the forum page of Straits Times.