Psy/270 Week 2 Individual Assignment

After one week break, week eight, we had to return to the clinical placement, Shalom Manor. Before the break I was on the fourth floor for seven weeks, it took me a couple of weeks to get used to the residents what their likes and dislikes; especially with their seating arrangement in the dining room. Every resident has specific sites that they sit every time they enter the dining room. The reason they sit in the same seat, I believe there would not be confusion with their meal. For example, some table has regular texture diet and another table has a modification in their diet due to different types of health problems. It is important for the dietary aide, to know where each resident sits during meal time, as he/she is the one who tells the Personal …show more content…
For a moment the sunrise until it goes down, 24 hours a day seven day a week the resident life is dependent on the others. I ask myself what is the purpose of a long life if I am unable to do eat or wash on my own? "Don't depend too much on anyone in this world, because even your shadow leaves you when you're in darkness". Maybe I would know that answer to my question if I live long, but for now, I am left with doubts. The people that I know and passed so far never said anything even on their last days just quiet and they slip away slowly. I remember two years ago the one person I loved the most my grandmother, which was the bosom of the family got sick and all family members from all over country gather to say their final goodbyes, I, on the other hand, did not because in my mind my grandmother was a steal I truly thought she will never die I learned the hard way what keeps me going is knowing she is in a better place. My grandmother was so lucky because she was surrounded not just her children but also her great grand kids in her last months of dying. It breaks my heart when some of the residents in the long care pass in their room alone. On the fifth week of