subject: Is The manual About How To Help The Aged A Must? [print this page] Recently a manual used by the Ministry of Health reminds the public of not hurrying to lift up a senior who falls over, saying that the action to be taken is different in differing circumstances. In the manual, several advices have been given as to how to help them without getting yourself involved in potential troubles if you are wronged. For example, if the aged remain conscious, one should first make it clear whether they have a severe headache or feel weak in their hands and feet. If it is so, to raise them up could worsen their illness, which might be linked to cerebral ischemia or cerebral hemorrhage, and the old peoples family members may accuse the helper with such excuses.
Do we need to help those aged who have fallen down and even suffered the risk of death in emergencies? This used to be a simple question in one society in which people had much trust in each other. However, in modern times, this has become so difficult that we have to learn some techniques and even professional medical knowledge. The manual has raised heated discus in as to whether it is a must if one wants to be so kind as to help others without any hesitation. Several cases have shown that sometimes the kind people are not appreciated but hurt instead, thus comes the manual, which is originally designed to direct people to deal with such issues and thus encourages them to help the aged people. But it brings another disputation among people. Some feel angry at one term in the manual, which states dont help the old who had fallen down immediately. They take it so cruel for misunderstanding it as not to help. While the manual is served to ask people to help the old people technically. Meanwhile, the manual emphasized the importance of prevention.
According to the research on death rate, falling is the fourth reason leading to death caused by the outside harm. Whats more, in most cases, it is the aged people over 65 years old who suffers the death. Now there are 0.15 billion old people in China. There will be more than 40 millions of them falling down at least once per year, according to the 30 percent rate. Obviously, it is a huge medical cost. Taking America as an example, 12800 old people fell to death in 2002, and it cost 20 billion dollars. Unfortunately, the cost will rise to 32 billion dollars till the year of 2020.
Given the data, we can easily find that the manual is important for helping us to get out of the hard situation. Because prevention id always more useful than cure. That is also the way in which the manual can help the old people. Although the manual may cause peoples disappointment in the lack of trust between people, it shows the dilemma of those kind people being afraid of being hurt because of their kindness.
