Today the day was spent in Geylang Polyclinic at the senior citizen day care centre. Its a place where families put their elderly at home here for the day to be taken care of. These people are sort of recuperating from falls or fractures and need constant exercise or loosening of joints, so each person will be given physiotherapy. So today we sort of did some loosening of muscles and joints and helped the elderly to exercise their joints when they needed it, and learnt some massaging techniques to improve blood circulation. I was doing some lower limb exercises for a overweight fat man and i almost sprained my back (guess, i am just not experienced enough). Though its not really part of our job but something useful to be learnt... Besides this, their were some students from NYJC who were also here for a week attachment to do volunteer work, so they planned and performed some magic show. After that we had a mini singing session in which we sang for them... Anyways I was quite enthusiastic about it but i think those elderly found us making a fool of ourselves and kept on laughing. But anyways quite fun to make a fool out of ourselves sometimes, it makes ppl happy sometimes. Overall I found it quite a nice, but a bit slow experience, quite diff from the normal ward duties.
I think maybe its not very possible for me to take up gerontology cause my dialect is not up to standard and 70 % of elderly speak dialect... makes me feel bad. I guess I have to change myself since I can't expect them to change for me. And this experience makes me feel i should be more patient to the ppl around me, but sometimes still feel irritated.
So tired, not enough sleep these days. ZZZ
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