Chinese woman couldn't find suitable nursing home for elderly parents, so she opened one
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The world's most populous nation, China, is also a greying society. It's estimated that by 2040, 28 per cent of China's population will be aged 60 or older. But since elderly parents have been traditionally cared for by their children, the country still lacks a comprehensive elderly care system. The challenge of finding proper care for her disabled parents led Cai Dongdong to switch careers and start her own nursing homes. By looking after her parents and other elderly people in the community, her ultimate wish is for every community across China to offer similar services for senior citizens.
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My great grandma (who lives in japan) moved into a nursing home a couple of years ago. She's is incredibly intelligent and high functioning physically and mentally despite being 97 (or 98 I forgot oops). She could walk un assisted up until the age of 95 when she slipped in a bathhouse and broke her hip. Anyway, when she first moved in, she would gossip to us about how the other residents were saying some dumb things or getting into arguments and cliques (just like highs school, there were the popular ones and stuff). I usually only get to see her once a year when I visit Japan, but due to covid the nursing home started doing online chats, so I have gotten to talk to her a lot more frequently. She is honestly such an amazing, strong woman. My family is specifically from Hiroshima and she is the only atomic bomb surviver in her family (as far as she knows, even if one of them did survive, there is no way to get in contact). She has 12 siblings (or twelve including herself again I don't remember) and all of their birthdays are on the 20th of the month. Well, not actually but it was close enough and her mom didn't want to have to remember so many birthdays XD. It's a miracle she's still alive. Even after the bombings it was obviously still a struggle to survive. Since she grew up poor, she knew what wildlife was edible and what wasn't. There was a period in her life were she survived mainly off of a specific tree bark. She says she's lucky that she knew these things because otherwise she wouldn't have survived. Since she came from a poor family and her husband didn't, they were forbidden to get married but they eloped together and got married anyway. I never got to meet him as he died long before I was born (he was a heavy smoker) but I often wonder what he was like. My great grandma is such a powerful independent woman that I couldn't even imagine what her husband must have been like.
So yeah, thats a little bit about my great grandma. She is truly a big inspiration to me.
Aww, it must be so nice to have a grandma :))
Lots of love and blessing from India 🥰💗
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She's still trying making her parents feel loved, even though they can't respond
Don’t post dumb post next time
Yes, darling. You are right. Thank you for understand others.
Because you loved yourself. When you think of others. ☺️❤️
@@pupushowlove97 pig
We usually think of nursing homes as horrible miserable places. I truly believe that because of people like her this will change.
The movie has little to commend it.The movie has little to commend it.
I hope there are increasingly more nursing homes with people who actually care and have the patience to treat the elders in China so those elders don't die due to lack of proper care.
*China should legalize euthanasia for elderly people like Switzerland did.* So old people who can’t take care of themselves anymore and do not want to spend the rest of their lives rotting away in a assisted care/retirement home have the option of being euthanatized fast and painlessly with the help of doctors. *It could also benefit poor elderly people who have not saved any money for retirement and can no longer work.* ~ That is my retirement plan.
Also Belgium is one of five countries that allow doctors to euthanize patients at their request, and one of two, along with the Netherlands, that grant the procedure for people with mental illness such as severe chronic depression. The idea is that those with a psychiatric illness should be afforded the same rights as those suffering from a physical one.
Also *Recently Australian euthanasia activist Philip Nitschke and Dutch designer Alexander Bannink created a suicide pod.* Called the “Sarco”, short for sarcophagus, the 3D-printed machine comes with a detachable coffin, mounted on a stand that contains a nitrogen canister. ~
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“The person who wants to die presses the button and the capsule is filled with nitrogen. He or she will feel a bit dizzy but will then rapidly lose consciousness and die fast and painlessly,” said Nitschke, who has been dubbed “Dr Death” for his work to legalise euthanasia. ~
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The “Sarco” is a device “to provide people with a death when they wish to die,” Nitschke said.~
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“This is a situation where one person chooses to press a button … rather than for instance standing in front of a train.”
“I believe it’s a fundamental human right (to choose when to die). It’s not just some medical privilege for the very sick. If you’ve got the precious gift of life, you should be able to give that gift away at the time of your choosing,” Nitschke said.
@@JD-jz5rr Very interesting... I 1000% agree with everything you said.
@@JD-jz5rr - Very interesting. At this time I wouldn't do this myself, but might change my mind if I was living in extreme pain at the end of life, that couldn't be controlled or helped. I feel people should have that choice.
Stop saying we need more people like her. You should take notes and be more like her.
She is an angel
yup
@Max Yang well. I don't care and not affected at all by what others think. If people care too much about what losers think, there will be no Elon Musk, no Bill Gates, no Steve Jobs. I respect opinions but there is no need to be affected in any way.
4th :>
@@RayMak well said 😌✌️
@@RayMak respect 🙌
That 104 y/o granny with her daily journal entries, it would be a honor to read what she wrote in her expansive life.
Wished we were allowed to open our senior homes like this in Canada. The hygiene and treatment towards seniors in governments owned senior homes here in Ontario are absolutely horrendous.
She is a superwoman. May she live long. All respect for her.
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The movie has little to commend it.
Wonderful woman to expand care to other elderly people. In today's society seems everyone has to work, or move far from home to work, no one left home to care for elderly.
They are our parents, too... Beauty with brain, I like it ❤️
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Hey nerd why you are spreading hate.
They didn't leave you when you are young so don't leave them when they are old ...
We are so busy growing up that we forget that they are also growing old ...😔
Here's the problem, you and they don't want you to consume your life looking after the old...because you have a life to lead... So what do you do?
Sometimes we have live far away to work.....like migrant labourers to construction workers...some Times ur parents r totally I'll and I need 24×7 to take care of them
Oh no these people misunderstood huh! If you can't even take care of them every time
Make sure that you need to call every day and keep some co worker or your relatives for some day and even if it isn't possible you just try something else man! But don't always depend on nursing homes and leaving them for years and months!
Anyway stay safe
Thank you
Hope you have a nice day
@@arunroy9997 try your best to be with them when its possible man!
Call them twice or thrice
Or else try something else
@@TomNook. 10:37 yeah it's the answer
Because you have chosen this job and you like it !
Or else try something different na
Take it positively man
You can't judge someones opinion
Thank you
"I'm 90 years old"
"No you're 98"
"No I'm not."
Shhh don't tell a ladies age 😂
Don't make laugh on old people once in life his age equal to your age
Watching this while I feel eternally grateful for what she's doing I also feel terrible for I don't have the capability to care for the elderly as tenderly and dedicated as she does, don't get me wrong I would care, I did cared for my last grandparent, my grandma on my mother's side. She had diabetes and passed in her sleep after she had her dinner and forgot to took her insulin after, her death still feels like an unbelievable dream to me, it might also have been almost a year but my disbelief and shock from her passing still wouldn't let me shed a tear for her.
The last thing she said to me was to add more rice cuz I need to eat more.
People like her even in China ....needs to be recognised and supported financially and serviced by whoever possible. Even the corrupt government officials will one day grow old, they should remember...!!!! Love to the woman who has done so much for strangers even.❤️
We need more people like her.
Wow, their daughter looks so young 🥰 they must be proud in their head
Bless her for her efforts and kind heart!! This really made me teary... It always makes me sad when I think about the elderly who don't receive proper care and being neglected :'( I hope the elderly there are well taken care of. And I hope she will be able to open up more nursing homes!! Clearly she's suited to do it than others.
The movie has little to commend it .
@@likelihoodoccurrence2384 What movie?
What compassion and respect these nurses have.
I hope the government sees this and audit those nursing homes whose main purpose is to collect subsidies. Hope the government will divert the subsidies to those who operate a home with the objective of giving love, care and dignity for the old folks.
The movie has little to commend it...The movie has little to commend it...
That’s very nice what she has done to keep her parents well cared for and loved! The price is very cheap considering how much it would b here in USA 🇺🇸.. we give you a lot of credit, it’s hard work
Nursing home for the elderly still has a long way to go but it is definitely improving.
i'd rather die than live like that. My goal is only to live up to 70, after that i'll go to Switzerland and have an assisted death with dignity.
@@onengkusumah2905
I've seen active 90s year old, it really depends on your health. However, you do you, live a nice and safe life.
@@lilblkrose active is not = nice life
What a wonderful lady! Here's a true story I heard second hand... A nursing home worker was wiping up a resident's bottom after a particularly odorous and messy accident. A man visiting his family member in the same room was impressed by her willingness to take on such unpleasant tasks in order to make a living and commented "I wouldn't do what you are doing for a million dollars!" Her reply: "Neither would I."
Dang that is such a nice thing to do.
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We need to make ourselves strong, loving and kind like her 🤧❤
Lots of love to this women and to all the people who do such kind deeds towards these elderly people, they are Angels indeed ❤❤
Again, Love from India.
You are a very special person! Much love from Sweden 🇸🇪
Come and see for yourself the care in the WEST and you will be surprised how GREAT you care for the elderly in your own carehome in Beijing!!! You are doing an amazing job caring for the elderly!!!
The movie has little to commend it..
I have spent the last 20 years caring for both parents although it’s just dad now but I could never put either one in a home
5:22 A GREAT GRANDMA I HAVE EVER SEEN !
6:46 aww so cute
Wow! Loving daughter! Great leadership skill in community nursing care for elder population! Role model for sure!
Big thumbs up to these great and kind people!
Compare the senior home I studied in Canada, this is Heaven.
I believe that,, it doesn't matter where around the world you live. As we grow old, we will always need someone to help care for us. I wish the government will do more to help open nursing home for elderly people. Some elderly people don't have family members there to support and care for them. They need a place where nurses or kind people to come and care for them and be there to comfort them at times.
I would give all my money to this nursing home if I had any
This gives me the vibe of "I care a lot".
Great to see how the caring develops !
faith in humanity has been restored
She has just blessed my heart so much with all her love and hard work. I am a caregiver of both my elderly parents who are over 90 years old and i understand her pain and need for having started this. I came across this story as I was searching for how i can start my own care center in a village in Kenya. Thank you. I am blessed and encouraged.
These senior homes here can be very iffy cause as we know that sometimes the workers are just there for the money and not much care is actually given. When my grandmother got sick with covid, thank the heavens she recuperated but she needs rehabilitation to stand and walk again. The doctors suggested sending her 2 weeks to a nursing home for rehab but we decided against it because we didn't want her to get worse. Especially because at her age (94) she could feel lonely away from her family and get worse.
this makes so proud of here..ive worked in elderly institution in taiwan for 3 years..my heart breaks everytime I think of my patients..I miss them so much😔
What a wonderful citizen China has!!!! Govt subsidies are hard in every country including here in America. It is people like this that makes the change that every country needs!❤️
I wanna read that Mama's diary... Her experiences and stories will be so enriching, I am sure of it...
This video was an inspiration to me. Nursing homes are actually filled with kindness and joy. This woman stood up for herself ❤️. Especially if you can't talk, you can just hear the voices of your children. Thier family must be so strong. She is still showing so much love towards her parents ❤️. It's better to show some sympathy towards others and taking care of yourself. Especially in this time. Take care ya'll
What she does is absolutely amazing!
People please help your elderly we all going to get old this darling is a saint
How honorable 🥰 that's wonderful! Keep up the amazing work! Xo
We need more care for the elderly
she amazing . i hope she gets everything she want
Great compassionate lady
Power to her
Kia Kaha
Inspirational woman and sobering film. Thank you for uploading.
我喜欢分享自己的经验。
请不要问你是谁，这会让他们感到困惑和压力。
总是只说出你是谁，你就在这里拜访和爱他们。
还要告诉他们天气和日期。 只是说而不是问。
I like to share something of my experiences.
Please never ask who you are, this would give them confusion and stress.
Always just tell who you are and you are here to visit and love them.
Also tell them the weather and date of the day. Just do the telling and not the asking.
Heart-warming ❤️
She's so brave!
Godbless her
who is the 25 people who would down vote this wonderful woman?!
What an incredible woman 💗
At least China has a cultural history of taking care of their elderly people and places like this complement the care, great angle.
America is lucky to be prosperous enough to provide care like that, it is not as lucky to have as much affinity towards their elders, percentage vice.
Hopefully Chinese people keep their traditional culture of taking care of their elders, which will be difficult as they become more prosperous.
Its great that these kind of nursing homes are available now but compared to other kind of nursing homes they are still so far behind. I really hope they can get funds so they can step up their care and enviorment even more.
I hope & pray her dreams will come true that there will be more properly run nursing homes for the elderly & the sick being built. That there would be more people in China who would be like her especially those who are wealthy to pay back to society by providing the funding to build & manage more of such nursing homes in China🙏🙏
The problem is the age expectancy. Its becoming way too high
This is wonderful!!
Prays be i cared for my mum and husband i could never ever put any one in a home i worked in them i dont care how great they look i feel every one should be looked after in their own home or have them living with you. i from England.
I'm worry when the last line is she wants to have 400 nursing homes.
The movie has little to commend it......The movie has little to commend it.
Such a nice soul.
nice try with the subtitle, she said we has made very poor forecast for the needs of the elderly care market. In subtitle the we become government, hahahaha always twisting the meaning of the people. Well done SCMP never disappointed on you
Hi does anyone know if the lady has a website or some way she can receive support/donations?
what an amazing lady!
Amazing. Chinese people always so resourceful.They really know how to survive no matter how things get though
If there is a donation link I would give all the money I can
To give the elders a great time on there last days on earth
She .is .great
I have a auntie or a grandma which can’t talk and my mom talked about it which means, it might happens in faints, but luckily my auntie can communicate little bit by making sound like “m” and more, she’s in south China, I hope she’s feeling well.
Elderly parents should be at home with family not elderly homes waiting to die.
Wonderful!
*In 2015, a 75 year old woman from the UK named Gill Pharaoh decided to go to Switzerland in order to receive doctor's assisted euthanasia, even though she was extremely healthy.* Gill Pharaoh, age 75, who wrote two books giving advice on how to care for the elderly, was not suffering from a terminal disease.~
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She said she had seen enough of old age to know that she was “going over the hill” and wanted to take action to end her life while she was able to do so.~
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Speaking before her death in Basel, the mother of two said her experience as a nurse, including working in nursing homes, had shown her that the reality of old age was “awful”.
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Most long term care for the elderly in Canada is absolutely horrible and I decided many years ago that I would overdose before I would allow myself to be subjected to the disgusting conditions, lack of proper care and abuses common to them.
Take Care of THEM!
Nursing homes should be only for ppl with no children. We shouldn't leave our parents in such places with strangers 😔.. if we take care our elderly parents then we will get the same treatment from our children in future. We should think that way. I can't even imagine to leave my parents in such places as long I'm alive. We shouldn't be selfish.. 😞
that makes me feel sad
awesome content keep it up
Copiii si bătrânii sunt cei mai sensibili persoane...
În viață ajungem odată să fim activi si de două ori depindem de alții : odată când ești tânăr si esti activ... Iar când esti copil si bătrân când depinzi de alții. ...
I would not be able to bare seeing my parents be like that
Bravo.
You are my hero
Hope China will take better care of old or mentally, physically disabled
What a tragedy being old Is.. Most look depressed. I hate the idea of relying on somone else to take care of me. Forcing me to do things. Not being able to feed myself,, wearing a diaper. 😟
Let's remember her name, Cai Dongdong
What kind of a life is that? I will pick the time that I will leave this earth ,if I get my way!!!
加油！
现在和将来都好
💙💕
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Do Chinese citizens also use TH-cam?
What do you think?
人要是沒了靈魂維持軀體的存活有意義嗎？ 值得考慮的問題
我去，刚开始我看成了“suicidable”（grammatically incorrect anyway），以为是什么关于安乐死的运动😂吓一跳。。。
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Aww
Be careful China covie 19 ***
社會企業?國家為人民做 不到所有東西人民要自己做?Social enterprise ? Country can't do anything for people so people need to do for yourselves?
你怎么中文和英文都说不好
Fake news man she probably eaten them with bat soup
Come to the US and see how residents are being eaten with..
Taiwan has much better health care. For free.
Bankrupt in the future due to decreased birth rate.
@@juliakitty07 And its a shame for u guys thst say taiwan is doomed, while taiwan cares 1000% better for its people still and provides socialized healthcare for them which ur china doesnt and lets its people suffer, specially the elderly, even with all the money in china, all going to the few ruling class while brwinwashed morons just cling to borgiouse nationalism like fascists cause theyre helpless. Enjoy ur capitalism
@@siggydj lol @ 1450.
How much did Queen Tsai spend on 1450 trolling operation?
@ Luke,
Free healthcare is a communist element.
@@VashtheStampede007 where does it say so???