A few years ago, I went to visit an elderly couple in a nursing home near Xiaotangshan, Beijing, on the recommendation of an old-timer from Peking University, because I was organizing an article. The environment of this nursing home is very good, the greening is very good, everywhere is the fragrance of birds and flowers. When I went there, it was just the beginning of fall, and when I went in, I was really amazed that there was such a wonderful nursing home! The activity room on the first floor is full of vitality: the old people don't dance like the older women, but dance gracefully with the melodious cello. There is also a senior choir, which is conducted by an old professor of the Central Conservatory of Music who retired and lives here. Next to the senior reading club, old men and women are communicating in foreign languages, more fashionable than young people. There are also painting, chess and other activities too rich. So many old people are very elegant, everyone happily chatting and greeting. Looking around, only all the houses are built to the sun, the highest only three floors, but also equipped with an elevator, inside the environment is particularly clean, there are many volunteers in the inside service, if you go to visit, you have to make an appointment with the elderly, otherwise not allowed to enter.
See the old-timer couple, instantly shocked by their spirit. The old gentleman is 85 years old, ear, eyes and ears, thinking is particularly agile, action is also sharp; the old lady is also almost 80 years old, talking and laughing, the state is very good. The old gentleman on the old Zhuang philosophical attainments are quite deep, the old lady is an expert in the study of French literature. Speaking of the situation I saw, the couple was very happy to chat with me, from the chat I learned: the old man on a daughter, graduated from a prestigious school, teaching English, son-in-law is Tsinghua's senior, the couple has been Dink. The old-timer couple is very open-minded, like their own free life, not willing to give the children trouble, for this reason, after retirement to play a few years, they lined up to wait for the house to stay in this senior citizen apartment, before their own housing rented out, here re-rented a two-bedroom apartment, the room is raised with flowers and grasses, the warmth of the sunshine sprinkled in the house, it is very warm and cozy.
The old couple loved to read all their lives, so when they packed up their house, they didn't buy a few things, but all they brought were books. The two of them have a lot of time on their hands, but they are not very good at what they do, so they are very good at what they do. The old lady told me that this community is very convenient, there is a shuttle bus, need to shop or go out to play, there is a shuttle bus, but also signed an agreement with the Concordia Hospital, the old man is sick directly shuttle bus to the hospital or ambulance. As for the cleaning of the home, every other day there are volunteers who come to wash and clean the home. If you are willing to cook, you can do it yourself, but if you don't want to do it, there is a restaurant for the elderly, and it is very convenient to eat. That day, we ate in the restaurant kitchenette, cooking is very good, especially that sweet and sour fish delicious let me recall.
The old man said, usually under the daughter and son-in-law have time to come to see, no time to busy them. They are happy and happy, participate in the book club, listen to the choir, go out to pick picking ...... this kind of old age life let me envy.
Sometimes very emotional, in order to live a good life in old age, living in a good nursing home, really need to earn more money while you are young and save more money, more hobby.
I forgot to add, on the way back to take a taxi, the driver said he lived in the neighborhood, saw me from this senior living, and chat with me. He told me that this apartment is very good, many of them live in the famous university professors, intellectuals, rent two generally have to seven or eight thousand it, but also have to queue. When the investment was just started, you can join the shares, shares can be divided into a suite. The first thing you need to do is to get a good deal of money from the company.
Then later, listening to the company before a cooking sister said, she serves a family conditions are very good, the old man and woman are retired from a large state-owned enterprises, before a financial one to do investment, the old two queued up in a set of high-grade senior citizen apartments, is the kind of equity, investment of 1.7 million, booked a three-bedroom, inside the facilities and services, such as the environment are very good. The old couple is more than 60 years old, too much trouble to cook for hourly workers, and now may want to find more playmates, so early into the senior apartments, but also clean. After listening, we all sigh, in order to live a good old age, have a comfortable old age, it seems to have to prepare well in advance.
Now with the arrival of the aging society, not only to plan for the future of the children, but also for their own old age early planning, more reserves of money is very critical. This is exactly what the saying goes: no money is never good enough.