On April 24, a video rushed to the hot search, which was a video that occurred in the Tianci Nursing Home in Quwo County, Linfen City, Shanxi Province, in which an elderly man was bound to the iron pillar of the nursing home, and the picture of multiple injuries on his body was shocking.
The old man in the video is the father of the whistleblower, Ms. Li, when she received a call from the nursing home and learned that her father had an abnormal situation, she immediately rushed to the nursing home, but witnessed the scene of her father being tied and abused, and the old man's hands were tied to the pillar. And according to the surveillance video of the nursing home, this is not the first time this has happened. The nursing home's explanation for the elderly person is that because Ms. Li's father suffers from severe skin diseases and cerebellar atrophy, he is completely unable to take care of himself, and the binding is to prevent the elderly from scratching the wound and self-harm. Soon after, she was informed by the nursing home that her father needed to be hospitalized due to health problems. At the hospital, Ms. Li learned that her father was bleeding on both sides of his brain and was seriously injured.
The Quwo County Public Security Bureau investigated the matter and issued a police report on April 25. The results of the investigation showed that Zhao, a nursing home nurse, not only tied up the elderly for no reason many times in the process of caring for Li, but also beat him. In the end, Zhao was administratively detained for 15 days and fined 500 yuan for his behavior.
Some netizens thought that Ms. Li's infrequent visits to her father caused the caregivers to abuse her father, and if Ms. Li had been careful, perhaps the tragedy would not have happened; some netizens said that the punishment was too light, and that the nursing home involved should also be rectified; and some netizens expressed their worries about the nursing home, saying that going to the nursing home is a crime, and going to the nursing home is better than home care.
Li Mi wrote in the "Chen Qing Table": "If there is no grandmother, there is no way to this day, and if there is no grandmother, there is no way to live for the rest of the year." "Supporting the elderly is the most basic responsibility of children, but now many people send their parents to nursing homes because of busy work, thinking that they can enjoy their old age in peace, but they did not expect that in exchange for the abuse and beating of the elderly by the caregivers. "Mencius, King Hui of Liang" has a cloud: "The old and the old, the young and the young." "When you encounter a strange elderly person in difficulty, you should help him, let alone a nursing home that has the responsibility of taking care of the elderly. In fact, this incident not only exposes the lack of management and nursing level of individual nursing homes, but also reflects the lack of supervision in the current elderly care service system.
Netizens have questioned the blatant abuse of this kind of elderly caregivers who still have the ability to take care of themselves and have children to visit, and what outrageous behaviors they will do for some disabled and demented, childless and daughterless elderly.
At the same time, this incident has also aroused widespread concern about the supervision and nursing quality standards of nursing institutions, and they have called for the introduction of relevant policies as soon as possible to strengthen the management and supervision of nursing homes, so that every elderly person who enters the nursing home can receive due respect and intimate care, and can enjoy their old age in peace.
Through this incident, we also realize that there is a long way to go to build a perfect and warm elderly care environment. At present, the mainland population is seriously aging, but it is facing many problems in China.
The first is that there is an extreme shortage of elderly care workers. In China, there are problems such as older age (mostly 45-55 years old) and low education level. The income of domestic elderly care workers is not proportional to the labor intensity, so that few young people in this industry are willing to get involved.
Second, the quality of elderly care workers is uneven. Some elderly care institutions do not pay attention to the training of nursing staff, and the lack of knowledge and skills of nursing staff makes the development of elderly care workers and the mainland pension industry seriously limited.
Third, the psychological state of elderly care workers is not optimistic. The survey shows that there is moderate stress among elderly care workers, and the factors influencing stress are the workplace, education level, disabled elderly, number of elderly people, shift scheduling and coping style.
Whether rich or poor, everyone gets old. This incident is not only the misfortune of an elderly person, but also exacerbates the public's distrust of nursing homes, and shows the urgent need for nursing home supervision.
Some people say that it is because the elderly with children are bullied, and their children will support them and find social workers to settle accounts, while the elderly without children can only endure in silence.
As a nursing home, it is difficult to ensure that every caregiver maintains professionalism at all times, and it is difficult for their parents to obtain emotional recognition in such an environment. Therefore, as a child, you should care more about accompanying your parents, not only relying on nursing homes and relevant government departments to supervise.