October 14 is an annual day for the elderly in the Yangpu District Social Welfare Institute. Every year on the day of chongyang festival, the welfare home will hold a grand garden party for the elderly, moving small trains, carousels, beautiful pat houses, etc. into the courtyard, so that the "90-year-old +" elderly people can wander back to their childhood in the "playground".
The afternoon sun fills the courtyard, and in the courtyard is a colorful carousel. The elderly people lined up, supported by volunteers, waiting to "get on the horse", and their eyes full of anticipation were like children who had just arrived at the playground.
"Two days ago we rented a small train and a carousel with the amusement equipment company, and yesterday we spent a whole day installing and commissioning. The old people watched everyone busy in the building, and their hearts were full of expectations. Huang Rongyan, vice president of YangfuYuan, said. This is the first time that Yang Fuyuan has reopened a garden party since the epidemic, and at 9 o'clock in the morning, she and more than 40 nursing staff and volunteers took their places early.
Grandma Wu is in a wheelchair and is pushed out of the nursing building by the caregiver. The 102-year-old has a clear idea, but she can no longer speak, and usually communicates with people through small cardboard. Unable to stand alone, her daughter joined forces with volunteers to carry the wheelchair to the carousel.
"Where are we going?" The old horse was a little curious as he was carried into the yard. "Let's go ride the pony and take you to play!" The caregiver told him. "Oh, I've never ridden a horse..." The 96-year-old horse suffers from dementia, and "I can't figure it out" is his mantra, but he always looks happy.
Grandpa Zhang, who is almost inseparable from a wheelchair on weekdays, spent five minutes with the help of three volunteers and nursing staff to "get on the horse". "I used to ride a big horse in the countryside." Grandpa Zhang, who was riding on horseback, triumphantly told reporters, "You said that this feeling of riding a horse is the same as that of a wheelchair, can it be the same?" ”
"The grandparents sat down and started right away!" Hearing dean Qiao Yihao's "trumpet", the old people immediately hugged the horse's back with great energy. "Ding-ding", the wooden horse slowly rotates, turning faster and faster, and the air flutters with a light happiness chapter exclusive to the playground.
The grandparents went up and down the wooden horses, constantly waving excitedly to the nursing staff around them. The sun shone on them, and the vibrant scenery of the courtyard kept flashing in front of them. At that moment, time seemed to have gone back decades.
In front of the "beauty shooting house", the old man lined up and took a "photo photo" printed on the scene with his girlfriend. In the "Sound Post Office", the elderly can record a voice on their own photo and send it to their children. On the red train, the grandparents walked around the yard, talked and laughed, and turned around again and again...
"On this day every year, the welfare home will be fully mobilized. Every elderly person has at least one volunteer or caregiver to accompany him throughout the journey. Qiao Yihao said that many nursing staff who had just finished the night shift the day before did not rest and rotated, and 5 volunteers from outside the hospital did nucleic acid testing in advance and came in to provide services. At the end of the day, everyone shouted loudly and exhaustedly.
Yangfuyuan is the largest comprehensive public pension institution in downtown Shanghai, where most of them are elderly people with dementia and disability who have a needs assessment level 4 or above, with an average age of 88 years old. There are 273 people over the age of 90, and 14 centenarians.
"Two days before the garden party, we went to check the room, and the old man said, 'We must go to bed early on these two days, because we have to have fun that day.'" Qiao Yihao said, "The annual garden tour will continue to be held because it carries the expectations of the elderly. ”
Column Editor-in-Chief: Zhou Nan Text Editor: Huang Jianjian
Source: Author: Huang Jianjian