The real experience of China people emigrating to the United States to provide for the aged.

With the popularity of immigrants, many elderly people will choose to live in the United States for the elderly. So what is the life of the elderly when China people immigrate to the United States? This is a concern of many people who go abroad. Let's take a look at the real experience of China people immigrating to the United States to provide for the elderly! Welcome to reading.

The real experience of China people emigrating to the United States to provide for the aged.

This is an old man from China who works in China and retires in China. But at the last moment, the story of emigrating to the United States to support the elderly and dying in the United States.

The story is not long, but it is worth reading carefully.

Last weekend, one of my wife's high school roommates came to Toronto from Detroit and stayed at our house.

They haven't seen each other for years, so naturally they talked a lot. When asked about her parents' health, she felt very sad: her father died in the United States in July this year, and he was over 80 years old.

I know a little about her father. Before retiring, she was the deputy chief engineer of a large arsenal where my parents worked, a senior intellectual, and a modest person. After retirement, the old couple still live in the local area. With the growth of age, the body is getting worse and worse. When her father was in his seventies, he found himself suffering from Parkinson's disease.

She has a brother who graduated from college in the 1980s and was assigned to Beijing. He wants to take his parents to his side to take care of them. After living for a while, her parents found it inconvenient: First, it was difficult to see a doctor. In addition, the factory has regulations that you can only see a doctor in a local hospital, and the cost of seeing a doctor in a different place will not be reimbursed. They look down on doctors themselves. Second, limited living conditions are always inconvenient. So it's hard to go back to the local area, so I can only take care of myself.

My wife's classmates went to the United States to study at their own expense through personal efforts in the early 1990s, and then stayed in the United States. When she saw her parents' situation, she thought of immigrating them to the United States and taking care of them. A few years later, they achieved their goal and both parents got green cards. In 2007, I moved to America.

Shortly after arriving in the United States, she began to contact the government's low-rent housing for her parents. Within two years of queuing, her parents moved to a low-rent house less than five miles from her residence, with an area of 800 square feet and all the facilities in it. Her parents have no income in America, so the monthly rent is $25. Because of her parents' poor health, the doctor ensured that the nurse would visit them regularly after the examination. Her father has onychomycosis, and the nurse comes to trim his toenails regularly. Because her parents are over 65 years old, some services are paid by the county government.

This time, she briefly talked about some experiences of 10 months before her father died, which was very emotional.

She said that her father's Parkinson's disease became more and more serious with age, and it was difficult to live and move. Once, I accidentally fell down and hit a hole in the back of my head. Because there was no bleeding, her mother didn't care too much and didn't tell anyone. Three days later, the nurse came for a routine check-up. Her mother told the nurse about her father's fall. After the nurse checked, she immediately called 9 1 1 (North American emergency number), called an ambulance and took her father to the hospital. After a series of tests including brain CT, the hospital is still not sure whether her father is seriously ill and needs to stay in hospital for another three days for observation. Three days later, somehow, her father really couldn't move. At this time, the hospital informed her that her father could no longer go home and would live in a nursing home. She's a little anxious. How do we contact this nursing home? How much do we have to pay? The nurse in the hospital told her that you don't have to worry. The nursing home will be contacted by us and sent directly. As for the expenses, since your father is over 65 years old and has lived in the United States for more than five years, all expenses will be shared by the county government and the federal government. Don't pay a penny! Can you imagine the mood of her family at this time?

After living in a nursing home, the nurses there are all responsible for food, shelter and nursing, without a housekeeper. They just came to chat or watch. She didn't elaborate on how nurses work, only that her father stayed in bed for more than 9 months without bedsores. She said that children take care of their parents, which is probably not as good as this.

After living in an American nursing home for nearly 10 months, my father passed away peacefully. Speaking of which. She couldn't help crying. She said that it was the government's medical security system that helped her through the difficult period in her life.