Senior Living in Taiwan

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Senior Living in Taiwan Such as a study, in forty seniors have one person is solitary elder. Almost solitary elder have sick among five percent people have melancholia. They may want suicide. In the news in Taiwan recently elderly person suicide, because he didn’t have any family and he had a lot of sick. Although some people think seniors should live alone, I think seniors should have someone to take care of them , for example, family or nursery homes for the aged. Opponents of senior live along. Some youthfulness think they have their own lives, so they don’t like to live with seniors and they don’t need seniors. Most young people have jobs. They may work far away from their home. They can’t live with their family and they also can’t go back home. In young’s life, they don’t need to have seniors. They think seniors are a burden. However seniors can help family members. Seniors have a lot of experiences that young don’t have. Young people can learn a lot from seniors. In Taiwan, we have a proverb is “ a senior at home is like a treasure at home. “ . We can learn a lot of things is different from now and seniors can help family relationship become good. Opponent maintain that seniors can take care of themselves. Senior don’t want to move out from their house, even if their house is old run down. In fact, in the news, we can see that when have an earthquake or typhoon happens, seniors don’t want to move to a safe place, because seniors cherish their homes. In other youthfulness may go to the city to work, but seniors still live in old houses. Even if their children want to pick them up to their new home. However seniors get old and they became weaker. They can’t take care of themselves and they may get sick .No one can help them to go to the hospital. Most seniors live
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