英语口语对话-关于老人是否应该送到养老院的看法
(2010-06-23 21:41:48)
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A: Hi, Yunhui. Have you watched the news in this morning's newspapers?
B: Hi, Meiping, nice to see you. Yes, I have paid attention to the news that the old were taken care of poorly in a black-hearted nursing homes.
A: It sounds terrible. Old people have made a lot of contribution to our society, we should take good care of the old .
B: It is well known that many family has only one child now, so the young couples in the future will have four parents to look after. They carry a heavy burden.
A: Yes, they are too busy and have no time to care for their parents, so some couples choose to send the aged parents to nursing homes.
B: By the way, did you have an idea to send your parents to nursing homes when they are too old to look after themselves well?
A: En, if I have no time to take care of them , I think it is a good idea to send my parents to nursing home.
B: Oh, really. I will never send my parents to those places because the quality of their service is worrying. What’s more, maintaining parents is responsibility for their children, is a fine tradition of Chinese.
A: But their children because of work and family reasons have not much time to accompany with their parents ,rarely taking the feelings of their parents into consideration. Therefore, they will be easy to feel lonely .It will has a bad effect on quality of life and health of them. However , they can share their feeling together and have common topics to talk about with similar aged people in the nursing homes so that they will not feel lonely.
B: But the majority of old people prefer to live at home living with their families at the bottom of their heart, they are afraid of lacking of affection in nursing home.
A: On the other hand, in the nursing home care can be provided with professional which is much better than at home.
B: What worry me most is the level of nursing care for the old and its short safety devices in nursing home.
A:Nursing homes usually have work day and night staffs and basic medical equipment, if a acute disease attack the old, we can find save them on time.
B:Old people who go there just do not want to trouble their children. To live together with the young people they can forget the aging and live a happy live.
A: Some old people love to live with the age peers, because they like to live in freedom, unwilling to be bound by their sons and daughters.
B: Even if the old go to nursing homes, children should often go to see them and also bring them back home to live for a while so that they will feel that we still keep thinking about them.
A: That ' s just what I want to say . There are always two sides to everything, but we should do our best to make our parents feel happy.
B:Oh ,the ring is ringing , I am afraid I have to go now. See you next time.
A: See you.