Golden Age Nursing Home
Address: 83, Jalan SS3/39, 47300 Petaling Jaya.
Date: 16th Oct 2012 (Tue 430pm)
Observation (personal) :
- well maintained facilities
- clean environment
- no interaction between the old folks
- the home has no funding problem and facilities problem
- sufficient facilities (with air-conditioned, TV, CCTV, wheelchairs etc)
- there are more private rooms (2 to 4 beds) compare to public area (there is 1 public area located at the first floor where they can eat, rest, chit chat there, but for those with wheelchair or have limited mobility ability they will need to go to the outdoor public area)
*The space planning need to be improved, more different areas with different functions are needed for the elderly to have a more meaningful, active lifestyle rather than everyday just sleep, eat, rest, and watch TV in the same room.
- the workers are very friendly and helpful
- the colour of the wall paint is very unpleasing, they are too bright and sharp
- my own personal comment: the overall facilities, services are good, cleanliness is well maintained but there are no sense of belonging or warm feeling regarding the interior and the space zoning, everyone is isolated from each other. The advantage of having separated rooms is that they have privacy but the disadvantage is no communication with each other.
Interview:
- Total no of old folks: 19 (upstairs 5, downstairs 14)
- Total no of workers: 10 (mostly from Philippines, Myanmar) - sufficient workers
- 3 categories of elderly: 1. independent (those who still can walk and eat normally) 2. dependent (those who need the assistance of the staffs) and 3. bedridden (those who cannot sit or stand up by themselves and could only lie on the bed)
- Very rare cases that the public will donate to the home because this is a private home where family pays to let their elderly to stay here.
- The public are aware of this issue
(There are around 100 nursing homes in Petaling Jaya) but does this means that more children are abandoning their parents?? Answer given is No because placing their parents here is actually to secure them so that they have people to take care of them, unlike placing them alone at home where nobody can look after them. (issue: children are busy with work and have no time to take care of their own parents and need to depends on the nursing home)
- The families come to visit them on weekends & public holidays
The office where I had my interview with the person in charge.
-clean, good lighting and well ventilated but messy
The Ground Floor corridor, the left rooms for male and the right rooms for female elderly.
Wall paint colour: cream
The bedridden private room (with air-conditioned and tv)
The twin sharing female room with bright green wall paint.
Room with 4 beds.
Sufficient wheelchairs.
First floor public area with a long glass table and plastics chairs and a big TV.
Wall paint colour: pale green
First floor room with 6 beds.
The kitchen where they turned it into a storeroom.
First floor balcony which facing the greenery and the road Jalan ss3/39
Outdoor public area with long glass table and cushion chairs.
The little garden where the elderly can walk around, gardening and plant some vegetables.
The outdoor stone table and chairs with natural environment but the opposite of the wall is a main road with high traffic flow (Jalan ss3/39)
The back of the home (they are actually extending another area)
The overall exterior of the home is in this dark sea blue colour and striking yellow and the interior is mostly bright and pale green & white.
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