Send a shower to your door! This couple allows disabled elderly people to "bathe" in happiness. Water temperature | elderly people | happiness
Taking a shower, for most of us, is a normal thing like eating and sleeping, especially in summer. Taking a shower every day can keep us cool and refreshed, which is nothing but normal. For some disabled or semi disabled elderly people, taking a shower can be difficult, and for some bedridden elderly people, taking a shower has become a luxury. In Yinchuan, Ningxia, there is a couple, husband Fan Zhi and wife Chen Zeying. They often drive in cars, carrying movable bathing equipment, and shuttle through the streets and alleys of the city. They come to their homes to provide voluntary bathing assistance for disabled elderly people. Let's walk into their stories together.
Fan Zhi and Chen Zeying went to an elderly apartment in Xixia District, Yinchuan City this time. Before taking a shower, Fan Zhi and Chen Zeying had to socialize and get close to the elderly to gain their trust.
Showering the elderly requires not only love and patience, but also professional nursing knowledge. Disabled elderly people often have various underlying diseases, and the risk of sudden accidents during bathing is high. Fan Zhi and Chen Zeying will carefully understand the elderly's sleep and eating situation in the past few days, and also measure their temperature and blood pressure before and after bathing. Before the first home bath assistance for the elderly, the couple spent two months studying nursing knowledge specifically in medical school.
Before inflating the bath bed, it is as light and thin as a bed sheet, making it easy for the elderly to get on. The inflation pump blows out hot air with a suitable temperature, and the water temperature of the shower machine can be kept constant at around 40 degrees Celsius. When taking a shower, dirty water is directly discharged from the drain, ensuring that the elderly wash in clean living water. Throughout the entire assisted bathing process, Fan Zhi and Chen Zeying carefully considered every detail.
The idea of the couple assisting the elderly in bathing stems from their work experience. Both Fan Zhi and Chen Zeying are engaged in funeral services. Once, when Fan Zhi was cleaning the body of a deceased person who was about to be buried, he learned that the elderly person had been bedridden due to illness and had not taken a shower for a long time. This incident greatly touched him.
Chen Zeying has always been passionate about public welfare and often participates in volunteer activities. She is very supportive of her husband's ideas. In 2022, the couple began to contact disabled elderly people through various channels and provide them with home bathing assistance. Many elderly people are unable to take a shower for a long time, and their bodies are mixed with various odors. During the bathing process, some elderly people may also experience urinary and fecal incontinence. The assisted bathing process is not easy, but these difficulties have never deterred Fan Zhi and Chen Zeying.
Take away dirt and fatigue, bring comfort and dignity
A golden age never comes again, and it's hard to wake up in the morning. Aging is a genetic process that no one can stop. It is not only our responsibility, but also our confidence to face aging and be fearless of it, so that elderly people can maintain comfort and dignity as much as possible when they are unable to take care of themselves in their later years.
The virtue of respecting the elderly and the aging of people has always been passed down by our Chinese nation, and Fan Zhi and Chen Zeying have truly achieved this.
Chong'an Community is located in Xingqing District, Yinchuan City, with over 150 disabled and semi disabled elderly people in the community. Social workers and volunteers will regularly come to chat with the elderly and help with cleaning. For many elderly people, their food and clothing are not lacking, and their biggest wish is to have a good shower.
Xu Baoyu is an elderly person living alone in Chong'an community, suffering from hemiplegia and unable to move her right body, making it inconvenient to take a shower. After learning that Mr. and Mrs. Fan Zhi could provide free home bathing assistance for disabled elderly people, community workers invited them to take a shower for Xu Baoyu.
In addition to hemiplegia, Xu Baoyu also had a sore wound on his right chest. Fan Zhi and Chen Zeying carefully waterproof the wound with cling film and began to clean his entire body. It had been over a year since Xu Baoyu last took a shower.
Over the past year, Fan Zhi and Chen Zeying have brought refreshing and comfortable experiences to many disabled elderly people. Wang Yue'e, who is 80 years old this year, had a sudden cerebral infarction two years ago and was paralyzed in bed, experiencing dementia. Under the careful care of his son Ren Shengli, the old man's intelligence gradually recovered. After waking up, the first thing to do was to take a shower.
Ren Shengli said that his mother has been clean for a lifetime. Before falling ill, the house was always spotless, and the elderly also had to take showers every day. After his mother fell ill and was bedridden, Ren Shengli installed a bathtub at home, but it was of no use at all. He could only frequently clean her body until he met Fan Zhi and Chen Zeying last summer, when his mother finally took a thorough bath.
For over a year, Fan Zhi and Chen Zeying came to the door with love, washing away the filth and fatigue for the elderly, and regaining dignity and dignity. However, the power of the two individuals is limited after all. They hope that the bathing difficulties faced by the disabled elderly can receive more attention, and also look forward to more people participating in the action.
Bathing in the warm sunset to see beauty
In order to ensure that disabled elderly people can take a safe, comfortable, and dignified bath, Fan Zhi and Chen Zeying have made sufficient preparations. In terms of hardware, bathing equipment is tailor-made for the elderly everywhere, while in terms of software, the couple specifically studied medical and nursing knowledge. Of course, the most important thing is that the two of them do it with full love. The elderly take a hot bath, not only warm on their bodies, but also warm in their hearts.
In fact, not only disabled elderly and patients, but also many elderly people who are too old and physically weak, taking a shower is a difficult task. Due to face saving, they feel embarrassed to seek help from their children and can only silently endure it. We all need to care more and put in more effort, like Fan Zhi and Chen Zeying, to use love to bathe the elderly around us in happiness.
