Count Chinese old life six big hard:
June 24, 2011
count Chinese old life six big hard: the 2010-07-25 turned insuperable culture and language barriers, was a stretch of the welfare of the economic pressure, bring numerous family dispute displaced, loss of social independent ability cause depression… Since always, Australia and has high environmental benefits the yearning for the old people. But here, in this blessed is the endowment & # 8221; The holy land & # 8221; Under the aura, many hardships in the unknown experience silence. Several/in a chance before the conversation, an abandoned by the children and the elderly live Chinese had smiled, told reporters, and # 8221; Australia was is not called the old man heaven & # 8221; .
reporter has a distinctive and at the ChenMiaoFeng service director, community nursing comprehensive service officer ChenYun west and new immigrants ZhongXinShe service work the equal protection DuoWei Saul old experts, they are a conversation with that, in Australian become practical significance on the & # 8221; Endowment heaven & # 8221; Before the government and the society and too many things to do. Will they with their experience, the old man, especially Chinese old man, in Australia are generally face 6 big difficulty; On one of them to quite a Polish Museum of old people, these difficulties have risen into an ordeal, they are from day and night.
difficult a language barriers cannot:
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experts think, language is Chinese old man into Australia’s biggest barriers, social and almost insurmountable, this also is all well-known. They say, & # 8221; 99% of the Chinese old man the Sydney no English foundation, a lot of people even ABC didn’t know & # 8221; , the serious influence them with the local community interaction.
of first to Australia, the old people even take a bus, buy thing basic travel are troubled, in all on the platform, the bus station in English and Chinese with the old man often ask article address is visible. All kinds of bank bills, medical report, government, and a full notice a paper English often makes the old man puzzled and also often brings a lot of negative results. According to experts introduces, in what they’ve known cases, have a live public old man bank account balance is not enough for processing, received a letter from the relevant organizations, ordered to be moved out. The old man not know English, to ask for help to the distinctive known until the seriousness of the things, and finally in the latter to lease with the help of the court of arbitration appeal online pharmacy , this just avoid being shown the door in the street, the tragic end. Such things, in a community is not rare.
difficult 2: loss of social independent ability
& # 8220; Whether good or bad, many old people health to Australia that after and # 8217; Lame & # 8217; The & # 8221; , the experts say, & # 8221; Because they lost most of the social independent ability, have to share all depend on their children, a lot of people new here if live in the area, and even buy a newspaper adnah are asking for help & # 8221; . Leave the domestic familiar with and extensive social network, live in Sydney, open environment neighbors strange and travel, all these make old inconvenience loss, loneliness and out of. Add the cultural differences, the life condition is anxious.
has a pair of old man from guangzhou, more than 70 years old, lives in LaneCove a relatively travel areas. Inconvenience Because don’t know English, and can’t take the bus, it almost never go out. For a long time, the old man began to worry, feel good for nothing, nostalgia’s risheng, also adds to the power of the depression.
according to reporter investigating, to one part in domestic sainted before the old people, they need more to face great psychological gap. Part of the old man unbearable heavy burden in tears, spirit wash is often the case, the minority even touched the idea of suicide. The experts suggest, old people wish to get the social independent, must think of a way to find work, though for many old man speaking, to average physical work there may be some mental resistance. They introduce, said a more than 60 years old gentleman to Australia before a court was in China between work, but now in doing the cleaning, and at a flower market works, working time is a star wear/. Despite the hard work, but for most old people, this is as soon as they get economic independence, and began to broaden the social interaction of important ways.
difficult three: cultural differences cause family dispute
& # 8220; The old man to Australia 100% because of family reunion, or help raise the third generation & # 8221; , the experts to there is little doubt that the tone, & # 8221; emphasis on But many families are finally cracking, quarrelling, up to or family violence & # 8221; . They point out that, although the phenomenon in China is also likely to appear, but because these two difficult and cultural differences, family disputes in Australia are more frequent occurring.
in Australia, Chinese old man to face a Chinese & # 8221; Family & # 8221; Concept and local & # 8221; Family & # 8221; Concept of change, if can’t achieve mentioned above, the old man still such as social independence did in China, are often attached to their children family will had a feeling of being abandoned. And the third generation full English, the old man more than their grandchildren are often not participate in family talk. Even if children filial piety, the old man will feel lost at home. In a lot of Chinese family, children live with the old man to pay a sum of living expenses. In their children’s opinion, this is government benefits, can help contribute to the family; The old man looks, this is the endowment JiuMingQian, children have the obligation to endowment again. Let alone who to who wrong, but culture and the idea of the highlights sharp differences.
according to the introduction, the most vulnerable family combination, it is the old man and his daughter and her partner were common life, almost hard to do & # 8221; Harmonious coexistence & # 8221; . Cultural differences, the way of life is very different, these are directly lead to greatly small contradictions. In addition, in many cases, the old man help take big grandson, seem to have lost & # 8221; Use value & # 8221; If health also a problem, is more easy to abandon.
has a pair of old man, for child support XiaBei, live in the backyard partial room, first pour also peaceful. In the age of the reading and grandson, children requirements to find another place to live in the old man himself. More than 80 years old gentleman for with alzheimer’s disease in a distinctive, with the help of the guild was sent to a nursing home more than 70 years old, the old woman a person lives in all public inconvenience, it may be said WanJing desolate. Examples of this, say, but is not rare.–
experts point out that, in China, the old man position relatively high, has the room have a pension have relatives and friends, many children are funded by the old man to buy a house; In Australia, the old man completely dependent on children, mentality humility, will his position to put very low. This change of subordination, led directly to a lot of tragedy.
difficult four: overrated welfare financially
many tasks old man paid family make a the same mistakes. In China, ZaGuoMaiTie to send their children to study in Australia; Children settled in, once again a government auction or sell debt immigrants to Macao together. This kind of practice, in addition with children’s filial piety to Australia, especially confident the welfare were confident. Many old people to Australia, the difficult life after from this confidence. Is
according to experts introduction, old people don’t understand immigration policy for the welfare of Australia, generally expect too much, think that even if children don’t endowment, also can rely on government aid to support himself. Experts point out that, to pension fully realized by economic independence, the old people in macau life must be at least 10 years, before this can only enjoy some such as Medicare and basic guarantee. As for their children, in addition to the above support about all kinds of contradictions and disputes, and a lot of the first generation of immigrants economic income is low, and lead to pension difficulties, the old man stranded. Experts say the & # 8221; Take refuge & # 8221; Type behavior is based on the traditional Chinese culture and the family idea, but as for basis and # 8221; The perceptual & # 8221; The old man to Australia, the more this tragedy will hasten the increase.
an old couple is a typical case. The old man funded study abroad, his daughter and immigrants to Australia found daughter can’t after take care of themselves. The old lady don’t like Australia, life after a big fight back, the old man continue to stay alone Sydney. Because no matter, the old man eventually daughter ignore to run away from home, & # 8221; Go out to sleep street & # 8221; Finally, wander, by a distinctive recommended to the salvation army, the latter guild to provide aid for humanitarian reasons, in old man and # 8221; Halfway house & # 8221; (i.e. temporary shelters). Not conform to explain get relief for qualification, has not been fundamentally solved life issues.
difficult five: public into the old man great dream
old man immigrants to Australia, the big problem is the brunt of accommodation, is also the most common fuse triggered contradictions, and make the old man times security and the cause of the lost connections. The old man accommodation form in Australia, that is only three with living with their children and their own house renting and to apply for public housing, a
