Saturday, June 13, 2009
PICTURE DISCUSSION 1.
This picture depicts a scene at an old folks home where there are students entertaining the elderly by playing catch with them. I think that these students are at the old folks home as part of their Community Involvement Programme, also known as CIP. In the semicircle of seven elderly people, there is a student in the middle of the semicircle, throwing the beach ball towards the residents of the old folks home. While in between two of the wheelchair-bound men, ready to catch the ball if it flew out of the semicircle, is another student. The elderly residents look happy to have company, and they seem to be having fun playing 'catch' with the students as they are probably bored of the dull life they lead in the old folks home.
CONVERSATION 1.
I have a grandmother who is about 67 years old this year. She means alot to me and she taught me a little lesson on cooking and how to speak teochew, which is my dialect group. She looked after me alot when i was young and she would always buy me sweets and cook my favourite dishes when i came to visit. If i could do something for her, for example, on her birthday, i would cook a meal for her. Even though my cooking skills are not that good, I'm sure she would appreciate the thought behind my cooking.
I feel that elderly people should be looked after by their families instead of living a dull life in the old folks home. They should live in elderly-friendly homes, which have facilities that make moving around easier for them, with things for them to do such that they can have an active mind and lifestyle. I feel that nursing homes for the elderly should not be free of charge, as knowing Singaporeans, most people would take the advantage of the free care for their elderly parents and dump them in old folks home, leaving more elderly in nursing homes wasting their lives away.
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