Welfare Center courtyard is in a quiet corner of the town, with purple ginger shredded wax and yellow chrysanthemums growing in the courtyard. In Shilibao Village, Shilibao Town, Miyun District, villager Liu Changrong is 95 years old. He leans leaning against the head of the bed, facing the sun and breeze coming in through the window. This side lying position can last for several hours. She is the only female among the 26 entrusted elderly people and the oldest.
The Shilibao Town Social Welfare Center, which is aimed at the five-guarantee elderly people in the town, has already accommodated 26 elderly people from seven villages, most of whom are unmarried throughout their lives. On October 4, the Double Ninth Festival, the elderly tucked balloons in the courtyard garden, sang loudly and danced with big strides. Compared with the elderly who were immersed in the festive atmosphere, Li Xiuhuan, the director who was on duty throughout the National Day holiday, and his colleagues did not dare to relax at all.
The elderly and staff of Shilibao Town Social Welfare Center took a photo with their staff. Photo by Wang Zicheng, reporter of Beijing News,
Nursing Home, single elderly people,
67-year-old Wang Guisheng is hearing-impaired and likes to sit in the room at the corner of the corridor, hold a paintbrush and lie on the table to draw figures. He painted the protagonists in the movie, friends around him, and strangers who came to visit him one by one. Most of the characters in the picture are busts, with realistic images and bright colors. They stack up in piles, and there are more than a hundred pictures.
Picture paintings drawn by Wang Guisheng. Beijing News reporter Wang Zicheng photographed
The most common character he draws is the protagonist of Wang Fang in the movie " Heroes' Children's ". He has drawn more than a dozen pictures. Li Xiuhuan was very proud on his face, "Our nursing home is full of five-guarantee elderly people in the village. Unexpectedly, they still have many hobbies and many talents."
Sun Kehong, who is about the same age as Wang Guisheng, practices writing strokes and strokes after lunch every day. Qiu Yueguo, a manager of the nursing home, opened the drawer and took out a two-centimeter-thick notebook. The front and back of each page were filled with regular characters with a fountain pen. "He likes Marxism-Leninist works, so he copied three thick notebooks."
Sun Kehong was writing. Photo by Wang Zicheng, reporter of Beijing News
Among the 26 entrusted elderly people in nursing homes, 25 are male. Most of them are unmarried throughout their lives and have no children. For them, this is the only home.
Li Xiuhuan came to the nursing home to work for three years. She described to reporters that when she first came to the nursing home, she was deeply surprised by the talented elderly in the hospital. "Many people think that the five-guarantee elderly people in the countryside should completely need financial assistance. Most of them have never got married, have children, and have no stable jobs in their lives. But in fact, I found that they have specialties and cultural needs." Li Xiuhuan, director of the welfare center, said. Photo by Wang Zicheng, reporter of Beijing News
75-year-old Zhao Tingguo is from Qingshuitan Village, Shilibao Town. He is not as flexible as Zhao Tinglin in the same village. Zhao Tinglin loves to play chess, and he also made rules to the thirteen-way chessboard of Go.
"The elderly are just playing the chessboards, they draw them by themselves." When Li Xiuhuan spoke, Zhao Tinglin smiled at her.
Zhao Tinglin who loves to play chess. Photo by Wang Zicheng, reporter of Beijing News
"Look, the elderly actually love singing, dancing, playing chess, and painting. An ordinary person lives in the world, in addition to eating and drinking, they also have spiritual pursuits. The elderly in the five-guarantee households also need cultural nourishment, and they even love art as much as they love life." Li Xiuhuan told reporters that nursing homes often hold literary and artistic activities such as "singing competitions", "chess king competitions", and "books and painting display competitions", and the elderly will spontaneously lay colorful balloons in the garden.
The nursing home is free of charge, with complete services
Every morning, the nurse must check all the elderly. Nursing staff Li Heqin remembered that one time, when she went to clean Liu Changrong's body, the old man showed apologies in his expression, "I told her, we did this, don't feel embarrassed or something, don't think so."
Li Xiuhuan introduced that as a public welfare nursing home, the Shilibao Town Social Welfare Center was invested and established by the Shilibao government. Currently, it only accepts five-guarantee elderly people in the town. All the expenses for the elderly after they are admitted to the nursing home are borne by the government. "Of course, because it is not profitable, the salary of the staff is not high, and some elderly people will feel sorry for the hard work of the staff. ”
The elderly and caregivers in the nursing home. Beijing News reporter Wang Zicheng Photo by
The nursing home currently has 80 beds. It is a comprehensive nursing home that integrates elderly care, elderly care and nursing. It provides personal life care services, dietary services, accompanying medical treatment and other services for the entrusted elderly. The nursing staff will add and reduce clothes for the elderly in a timely manner after comprehensive assessment based on seasons, weather changes, physical fitness, living habits, etc. There are heating, electric fans, and TVs in the room, and the heating will not be closed until mid-April.
Li Xiuhuan introduced that the nursing home has barrier-free passages and barrier-free facilities, equipped with a canteen, chess and card room, reading room, rehabilitation room, calligraphy and painting room, and computer The room and screening hall are equipped with a TV, electric fan, wardrobe, seat, and emergency call system. The hospital is equipped with 24-hour bathing facilities for the elderly to bathe, and hot water is supplied 24 hours a day. The service staff have been professionally trained and certified to work.
The nursing home manager Qiu Yueguo introduced that since the outbreak of the new crown pneumonia epidemic, the nursing home has implemented fully closed management many times. In addition to doing regular work every day, nursing staff must also disinfect, measure the elderly's body temperature, and relieve the elderly's irritability caused by the epidemic. "In recent years, the staff have stayed in the nursing home for more than 200 days. But we are afraid that the elderly will be under mental pressure, so we organize the elderly to sing, play chess, watch movies, and dance aerobics . In the past few hundred days, everyone has been very happy and spent the days of blockade together. "
In the small world, open the heart knot for the elderly
" When I first came here, I was 54 years old. During the day, I work hard in the nursing home for a day and go home, and I can stay up late to write something and read books. Now, I feel that my energy is not as good as before. On several occasions, after taking the elderly to the hospital for registration, treatment, and accompanying them, I still feel tired after sleeping for a while. "In August 2019, Li Xiuhuan, who had worked in the Shilibao Town Women's Federation for nearly 20 years, accepted the organizational task and went to the welfare center to be the director and took full charge of the nursing home. She was a little worried at first, "I am not smart, worried that I cannot complete the organization's tasks well, and I am also afraid that I cannot take good care of the elderly in the five-guarantee period. "
A nurse told reporters, "Some elderly people are moody and stubborn. We treat the elderly as relatives, but some elderly people may not only be unhappy, but also speak harshly. "
Li Xiuhuan, who has been working in women for many years, feels that for some paranoid elderly people, they can only use more chat, more contact and more care for psychological counseling, "people's hearts are also fleshy. Talk to him more, he will understand sooner or later, and one day he will understand how good you are to him. "
" When communicating with the elderly, you have to break the truth and tell them. There is an elderly man in our yard who often quarrels with other elderly people and nurses. Later, I often chatted with him, encouraging him to make more friends and live a happy old age. He is much better now than before, and his heart is opened, and he is less fond of losing his temper. But sometimes there will be tempers, and the staff will wait tacitly for him to finish his attack before reasoning him. People’s tempers in this life are not so easy to change, and we can tolerate their impatientness. "
In addition to daily care work, Li Xiuhuan often takes the initiative to discover the strengths of the elderly. She found that Jiang Mingxiang and Guo Changqing loved singing, so she encouraged them to participate in the singing competition held in the courtyard. Seeing that Wang Guisheng was introverted and liked to draw in the house, she found opportunities to praise him for his good paintings. "After receiving the praise, the elderly would grin and laugh like a child. "
The elderly sing in the nursing home. Beijing News reporter Wang Zicheng photographed
" On January 22, 2020, an elderly man died in the nursing home.When I checked in the morning, I found that the old man felt a little uncomfortable. I called 120 to go to the hospital in time. From 8 am to accompanying the old man for various examinations to undergo surgery at around 10 am at night, my colleagues and I have been by the old man. After several days of treatment, the elderly were still not retained, but we also tried our best. "A caregiver wrote in the log.
Li Xiuhuan said that for many elderly people, the welfare center is the last place of residence in their lives, so the staff will take good care of them every day and accompany them to celebrate every festival. During this year's National Day holiday, the staff of the welfare center of Shilibao Town adopted a "two shift" working system. But on October 4, the Double Ninth Festival, all the staff came. The chrysanthemums in the yard are blooming in the cold wind, and the reunion dinner in the courtyard is full of joy.
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