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Some economists say that increasing funds alone will not change the situation. The government has to take measures to make nursing assistants as well as ordinary people aware that society's attitude toward senior citizens,moncler, especially the physically or mentally challenged,abercrombie, determines its level of civilization and social conscience.
The administrator in the small town of Hubei may be an extreme example,burberry pas cher, but the reality is that shortage of funds and qualified administrators has become a big problem for nursing homes across the country.
Media reports say a mentally challenged senior citizen died at a nursing home in a small town in Hubei province recently after staff members tied him up and left him shivering throughout the night. The tragedy reflects the poor state of such homes in China,louboutin pas cher, says an article in China Youth Daily. Excerpts:
(China Daily 12/27/2010 page9)
The 68-year-old man's behavior was annoying but that was no reason for the administrator to have him tied up and thus caused his death. Investigations also revealed that the administrator had no formal training in nursing home management. In fact,casque beats, he has received just four years of formal education.
The administrator had told some of the employees to tie up the 68-year-old man because he had made several attempts to run away from the nursing home and defecated in the open a few times.
Investigations have also revealed that senior citizens in the charity home are often beaten up. Of the inmates 17 have no visitors.
Technically speaking,doudouen moncler, the ratio of nursing assistants and caretakers to inmates at such homes should be 1:3. That means 10 million such nursing assistants and caretakers are needed in China. But there are only 220,burberry,000 of them,abercrombie france, among whom only 20,louboutin,000 are qualified for the job.
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