Young people should know that is not only a responsibility but it is also a privilege to visit the elderly in aged care units.

1. Young People Should
Take Time to Visit
Aged Care Units

2. Little do young people today realize the significance of visiting aged men and women who have
been placed in a nursing home. The importance is actually twofold in that the act of visitation is
both a responsibility and a privilege to the young person. Since it is both, there should never be
a reason to think of the act as a burden. Soon, every young person would see that the act is in
fact a blessing, for it has prepared his or her mind in knowing how much any better or any
worse it might be with the generation that would follow to look upon them when it is their turn
to be among the number of the ‘senior’ citizens of the world.
Apart from these general exhortations, a young person may need to know the specific reasons
he has to anchor himself into so he would soon be willing to visit his grandparents or other
aged men and women even if they’re not of his blood. These reasons are given in two
categories below.
The Act as a Responsibility
The responsibility of visiting the elderly in aged care units:.
1. Any young person should be able to trace his existence back to an elderly.
2. It should be an act of tribute to his own grandparents for him to visit any elderly--even
not his or her relative.
3. Many of the aged may be in the state of memory loss. The act of visiting and caring for
them even in a short while, should at least be to the elderly a pay-off for the care, discipline,
upbringing, education, that they had once given to their young.
The Act as a Privilege
The privilege of visiting the elderly in nursing homes:
1. A young person may have a chance of reflecting on the way things are in his own life by
seeing an elderly.
2. He may gain better insight of the kind of life that he should now live in order to avoid the
fate of some of these elders.
3. One grandpa or grandma who may be hesitant to confide matters to a middle-aged
caretaker may, invigorated by the freshness of youth, readily opens up to a young person; thus,
paving the way for “peace” to come in the elderly.
As you may have seen, our young are surrounded with noble reasons to visit aged care units. It
is just that most of the time, their attention are now more glued to the entertainment tools
that surround them brought by our fast-paced technological age.

3. For further information on aged care, you may talk to the nursing homes in your own locality.
You may call your nursing home in Brisbane, Gold Coast and Tweed Heads; aged care in Holland
Park, Logan and Sunnybank.