Picture Discussion Day 1

- Why do you think these people are here?

• These elderly people are here as firstly,their families have not enough income to take care of them at home. Either the family is too poor or the family members have no jobs to have any income. Secondly,all his family members have not enough time to take care of them. There may also be no close friend or relative they know to help take care of the elderly. Thus their only choice left might be to send them to a nursing home.Thirdly,it is that the family members all do not care about their elderly and want to get rid of them by sending them to a nursing home.

- Do you think the people in this picture are enjoying themselves?

• Yes the elderly people are enjoying themselves. The picture shows the helpers passing a ball to each elderly so let the elderly be more active.

- Describe what a day in the life or a resident in this nursing home might be like.

• A day in the nursing home might be like going about the nursing home and participating activities to keep active,with the helpers trying to help out in the physical problems you have. There may be people from the public coming to visit the nursing home too so a person might be able to meet someone in the outside world and interact with each other.