I worked as a caretaker in USA and it was by far the shittiest job I ever had. I had people throwing actual shit at me. Old ladies trying to bite my fingers. Multiple old ladies trying to grab my crouch. On top of that I had to work 16 hours a day for 5 days a week just because where i live there isn’t that many people who want physical jobs. I only lasted 1 year in that field. The pay for a caretaker is so extremely low I couldn’t bear it. I was working 60-80 and my annual salary was 30k in California. When I worked for a company digging holes I was making 60k a year. I have huge respect for you caretakers.
I feel so bad that these caregivers had to sacrifice their hopes and dreams for others they did not bring into this world. At least here in the states, in some areas, we have programs now that pay carers for what they do since it's cheaper to pay someone to go to their home and care for them instead of paying for their time in a nursing home. I am my mother's designated caregiver and as of the past few years, since the new program became available, I am finally free from the stress of having to work outside, plus the stress of being a carer, which I never intended to be. I spent over a decade before that having to juggle both. I can't even imagine also having to care for children and a husband on top of that! I would completely have lost my mind. I already feel my mental health slipping more and more just dealing with my mother. I am the only one who is able or willing to keep her in my home. It is extremely frustrating. She was physically capable of being a mother but not even mentally or emotionally well enough to be an adult. She was not a good parent and only really cared for me the first 9 years of my life. If I had siblings, I would have left home in my early twenties. She never took care of herself and guilt tripped me into staying with her, so I wouldn't leave. I have been stuck with having to live with her most of my life and wish I could eacape. She does not respect me or my home. Kids are mostly easier to control and discipline when they cause problems in the home. But older adults always think they know best and resent having to follow anyone else's rules. If you try to give them consequences or get upset with them for destroying your home or invading your privacy, they scream abuse and try to appear helpless. Not to mention the normal depressing things like always having to clean incontinence spills, and coming home to those odors and the overwhelming sight of hoarding. Even worse, the paranoid accusations of stealing belongings that are worthless to me, because they have been misplaced. At least carers in the nursing home get to escape to the refuge of their own homes for part of the day. They can also have a social life and not be on call 24 hours a day. The stress and hopelessness of this situation makes me lack the motivation to care for myself anymore. Thank God for my two precious pets, or I would feel no reason to go on. I am aware life is unfair. On the bright side, the way things are going, I most likely won't have to endure much longer, and if I do, I will make sure if I can't live independently, or with someone who wants me, I will go to a home, or get another senior to care for me. I won't pressure anyone like I have been. I feel these peoples pain.
I have red your testimony and only through imagination of your experience I have felt overwhelmed, already. I lose hopes in many ways, including in God for how hopelessly elders end anywhere in the world as a testimony for us and how we may end up and how hopelessness may drown the carrers, whether family or professional ones giving this landscape of despair. I cannot but lose hope on every meager and bitter day. To read your story and to watch what that means for the Japanese elders, it is heart aching and breaking and turns my future forecast so obsolete and so in vain.
This was again a very helpful translation of a talkshow/documentary that I would otherwise not have understood. I attended my father in his last three weeks. Now I am burdened by thoughts that I could have made him more comfortable at the end. I can't imagine being a caretaker for decades. In the USA, nursing homes for the elderly are also becoming unaffordable. The only way to get into a free state nursing home, which is usually poorly equipped and understaffed, is to be destitute. I have a stepdaughter who lives far away and will not likely be able to take care of me. There is a nice "rojin home" in the city where I live but they require a very large upfront payment and then a high monthly rent. With inflation, those will only go higher.
Modern technology won't let old people die. They are miserable and so are their children. A reduction in quality of life for all in exchange for quantity of life. Awful.
@@MiguelDLewis Ah yes, because a "christ obeying culture" is totally all sunshine and rainbows, it's not like you guys have a long history of abusing people you don't like. This has nothing to do with technology, or "unholiness" (since there is no such thing as "unholiness), it's everything to do with a society that isn't equipped to deal with an ever increasing senior population, and a lack of care from the government for their people.
They need a home care aid like in the USA. I used to do that for my mom. Getting paid by the hour while helping her do laundry, buy grocery, go to the doctor, and etc. This way I had some income by helping her. The health insurance decide whether the patient need 15 or 20 or 40 hr a week depending on their conditions.
Let's face the truth most elderly in east Asia countries are already abandoned by their children and the government, u go to Singapore or south Korea or Japan or Hong Kong.....a large percentage of the elderly 50 to 70 percent are either still working in their very old age or living in poverty and destitution or homeless or simply forgotten by their family,children or society. .the government would give lip service but even they do not want the burden of looking after the old.
The saddest thing is that the daughter is looking at her future and it's horrendous.. it's the deal we make with or parents..they look after us when were young and we look after them when their old... even changing our dipper's!!!.🙁
also happening in states and elsewhere. my mother is 88 with some mental deterioration and determined to keep hanging on. it's terrifying. i'm 65 with health problems myself.
If they would let people migrate, they wouldn't be having this problem. There's thousands of Thai care workers who want to move to Japan and who would become senior living aids in a heartbeat if the immigration policies weren't so utterly brutal
Young children development related job and old care including nursing are extremely taxing sort of jobs. They are not for everyone, underpaid and overworked and underappreciated
Surprisingly good channel, (surprisingly partially since can't find any other channels based on translating Japanese news media.) Don't be afraid to branch out to subjects unrelated to the deterioration of either the birth rate, or the conditions of seniors, though I would recommend you focus on the hardships of people; (for better or worse, people like to hear about the suffering of people, even innocent ones).
@@WaterspoutsOfTheDeep That’s not preferable or even feasible in the foreseeable future, that is, to have an AI helper as effective as a human helper for senior care.
@@Manx123 how so? You do realize Tesla has already developed a android and we area already close to functional general ai with specialized computer chips being developed for computers just to run ai right...
@@WaterspoutsOfTheDeep And? Nothing indicates to me as such that we’ll develop a robot specifically as effective as a human for senior care that would be cheaper than a human, thus not being preferable. They would also have to be considerably cheaper than nursing homes to be preferable to nursing homes, since even if a human were more expensive, nursing homes allow costs to be considerably lower with economies of scale, (i.e., one helper can be used for many more seniors).
Yes I remember that western governments and big business used to say "Japanese are the model capitalists democracy" we should try to be like then..you don't hear them saying that anymore!!.❤️🇦🇺
Ah yes, because Tesla's products are very known for being reliable, like that stupid ass cybertruck that is so well made, that it's constantly breaking everywhere, and driving over people.
Maybe they could combine the elderly who need care and the homeless teenagers, so the teenagers have homes and the elderly are cared for? At least temporarily
Do you really think a homeless teen possibly with mental health and/or drug issues would be able to take care of an elderly person who isn’t even their family. Would you want a homeless teen caring for your elderly family. It’s a bad idea.
@@posemwen if a family member of an elderly person has abandoned that elderly person, then their opinion of who is taking care of their parent doesn't matter whatsoever
the last images of this video show that there is still hope in Japanese society which, let us not forget, remains a human society like all human societies and cultures on this planet and that, well year after year, this society also remains a variation of all other human societies. it is also the product of a history, that of the forced "westernization" of Japanese society, a westernization against which the Japanese - especially classes not part of the "elite" - were unable to protect themselves. emotionally speaking, these are very trying situations.
Ungrateful young people those relatives took care of them when you were a baby and they even tought you how to live and survive in this miserable life and now that they are old it is time to to thow them in the teash. I am a caretaker of my parents and two single aunts and I am glad I have them in my life !
have you been caring for them for 40 years? are you 80 years old? the point is that these people are old themselves with no more energy anymore. if you are 80 and do everything then you must still have health.
Not all these old terds are benevolent and loving in their means of parenting. They only took care of themselves and their own convenience! What you reap is what you sew, and people who have been narcissistic, abusive, assholes all their lives are entitled to nothing!
Most of those Japanese people only had one or two kids. You are demanding a lot from one child. You are asking one person to take care of their parents and themselves. That young person won’t be having children if there going to be this stress out. If I was their father, I want my children to take care of their kids first and If I’m able i would help out. I would take them to school and cook for them and when I get too old and become a nuisance to my family it’s only nature for me to kill myself as a man. I would never ever want to stress out my family. I rather die than live be a burden to them.
I think what this documentary is trying to pinpoint is that, with Japans ever increasing cost of living and stagnant wages, it is very hard to juggle daily life itself yet alone care for their parents. And those who care for their parents are at the age of either 60+ or 80+ still needing to work menial job just to get by. If they quit their job they use their savings to care for their parents and by the time their parents leave this world, they have no savings of their own. It's not easy being a caretaker especially when you are financially tight and I guess everyone has their own story. A shout out to those who endured through the tough times caring for their disabled elderly parent at the same time going through financial difficulties in the process. May God bless your lovely soul.
"Ungrateful young people" Dude, these people have their own lives, they need to work, and have their own family to raise, they shouldn't be expected to take care of their aging parents forever. Some of those caretakers ARE LITERALLY SENIORS THEMSELVES! How selfish do you have to be to call this "being ungrateful"? Just tell already that you don't see your children like actual people, but just as servants/slaves who only exist to do your bidding.
When we've managed to extend people's lives to 150 years and they require 24 hour incontinence care, bathing, feeding, showering, clothing, attending to falls, demented outbursts, medication, joint replacement, cardiac, liver, renal and pulmonary support. What then? Who's going to do this? Who's going to pay for it? We're going to have to import 1 billion carers from Africa, 1 billion from India and 1 billion from China. Great - Now then. Who's going to look after those carers when they get old? Treat people up to the age of 75. After that, they're on their own. No medications, no surgery, no facilities, no *anything* - or the old people will drain all the resources from society and make life for the young in this world a living hell. (Young people who deserve a chance to blossom - not eternally bear the burden of a decrepit old parasitic blob).
I worked as a caretaker in USA and it was by far the shittiest job I ever had. I had people throwing actual shit at me. Old ladies trying to bite my fingers. Multiple old ladies trying to grab my crouch. On top of that I had to work 16 hours a day for 5 days a week just because where i live there isn’t that many people who want physical jobs. I only lasted 1 year in that field. The pay for a caretaker is so extremely low I couldn’t bear it. I was working 60-80 and my annual salary was 30k in California. When I worked for a company digging holes I was making 60k a year. I have huge respect for you caretakers.
I feel so bad that these caregivers had to sacrifice their hopes and dreams for others they did not bring into this world. At least here in the states, in some areas, we have programs now that pay carers for what they do since it's cheaper to pay someone to go to their home and care for them instead of paying for their time in a nursing home.
I am my mother's designated caregiver and as of the past few years, since the new program became available, I am finally free from the stress of having to work outside, plus the stress of being a carer, which I never intended to be. I spent over a decade before that having to juggle both. I can't even imagine also having to care for children and a husband on top of that! I would completely have lost my mind.
I already feel my mental health slipping more and more just dealing with my mother. I am the only one who is able or willing to keep her in my home. It is extremely frustrating. She was physically capable of being a mother but not even mentally or emotionally well enough to be an adult. She was not a good parent and only really cared for me the first 9 years of my life. If I had siblings, I would have left home in my early twenties. She never took care of herself and guilt tripped me into staying with her, so I wouldn't leave. I have been stuck with having to live with her most of my life and wish I could eacape.
She does not respect me or my home. Kids are mostly easier to control and discipline when they cause problems in the home. But older adults always think they know best and resent having to follow anyone else's rules. If you try to give them consequences or get upset with them for destroying your home or invading your privacy, they scream abuse and try to appear helpless. Not to mention the normal depressing things like always having to clean incontinence spills, and coming home to those odors and the overwhelming sight of hoarding. Even worse, the paranoid accusations of stealing belongings that are worthless to me, because they have been misplaced. At least carers in the nursing home get to escape to the refuge of their own homes for part of the day. They can also have a social life and not be on call 24 hours a day.
The stress and hopelessness of this situation makes me lack the motivation to care for myself anymore. Thank God for my two precious pets, or I would feel no reason to go on. I am aware life is unfair. On the bright side, the way things are going, I most likely won't have to endure much longer, and if I do, I will make sure if I can't live independently, or with someone who wants me, I will go to a home, or get another senior to care for me. I won't pressure anyone like I have been. I feel these peoples pain.
God, I'm so sorry. I hope you are freed soon.
I have red your testimony and only through imagination of your experience I have felt overwhelmed, already. I lose hopes in many ways, including in God for how hopelessly elders end anywhere in the world as a testimony for us and how we may end up and how hopelessness may drown the carrers, whether family or professional ones giving this landscape of despair. I cannot but lose hope on every meager and bitter day. To read your story and to watch what that means for the Japanese elders, it is heart aching and breaking and turns my future forecast so obsolete and so in vain.
BRUTAL.
This was again a very helpful translation of a talkshow/documentary that I would otherwise not have understood. I attended my father in his last three weeks. Now I am burdened by thoughts that I could have made him more comfortable at the end. I can't imagine being a caretaker for decades. In the USA, nursing homes for the elderly are also becoming unaffordable. The only way to get into a free state nursing home, which is usually poorly equipped and understaffed, is to be destitute. I have a stepdaughter who lives far away and will not likely be able to take care of me. There is a nice "rojin home" in the city where I live but they require a very large upfront payment and then a high monthly rent. With inflation, those will only go higher.
Modern technology won't let old people die. They are miserable and so are their children. A reduction in quality of life for all in exchange for quantity of life. Awful.
Modern technology isn't the issue. Japan's unholiness is. When a culture disobeys Christ, this is what inevitably happens.
Absolutely,this is the drama of modern tecnology, it will keep you "alive " but not living.
@@MiguelDLewis Nah, here in europe it's a burden too.
At a certain age seniors have to take a HUGE amount of pills just to breathe.
@@MiguelDLewis lol what, you're an absolute lunatic, wow that's the dumbest reply I've ever seen XD
@@MiguelDLewis Ah yes, because a "christ obeying culture" is totally all sunshine and rainbows, it's not like you guys have a long history of abusing people you don't like.
This has nothing to do with technology, or "unholiness" (since there is no such thing as "unholiness), it's everything to do with a society that isn't equipped to deal with an ever increasing senior population, and a lack of care from the government for their people.
They need a home care aid like in the USA. I used to do that for my mom. Getting paid by the hour while helping her do laundry, buy grocery, go to the doctor, and etc. This way I had some income by helping her. The health insurance decide whether the patient need 15 or 20 or 40 hr a week depending on their conditions.
Let's face the truth most elderly in east Asia countries are already abandoned by their children and the government, u go to Singapore or south Korea or Japan or Hong Kong.....a large percentage of the elderly 50 to 70 percent are either still working in their very old age or living in poverty and destitution or homeless or simply forgotten by their family,children or society.
.the government would give lip service but even they do not want the burden of looking after the old.
The saddest thing is that the daughter is looking at her future and it's horrendous.. it's the deal we make with or parents..they look after us when were young and we look after them when their old... even changing our dipper's!!!.🙁
if you think this is bad America is worse for those in similar financial situations
That is correct.
The situation looks so grim for Japanese Society
also happening in states and elsewhere. my mother is 88 with some mental deterioration and determined to keep hanging on. it's terrifying. i'm 65 with health problems myself.
Yes I have issues.. retirement is at the wrong end of life!!!.🤣🤣@@catea2551
If they would let people migrate, they wouldn't be having this problem. There's thousands of Thai care workers who want to move to Japan and who would become senior living aids in a heartbeat if the immigration policies weren't so utterly brutal
It’s sad. The reality of life as one reaches a high age.
Young children development related job and old care including nursing are extremely taxing sort of jobs. They are not for everyone, underpaid and overworked and underappreciated
Surprisingly good channel, (surprisingly partially since can't find any other channels based on translating Japanese news media.) Don't be afraid to branch out to subjects unrelated to the deterioration of either the birth rate, or the conditions of seniors, though I would recommend you focus on the hardships of people; (for better or worse, people like to hear about the suffering of people, even innocent ones).
i remember 10 years all the headlines about japanese citizens and their longevity…
Eventually, Japan will develop mass or industrialized senior homes.
In a few decades I predict every home will have a AI run helper robot that looks like the Tesla one just made.
@@WaterspoutsOfTheDeep That’s not preferable or even feasible in the foreseeable future, that is, to have an AI helper as effective as a human helper for senior care.
@@Manx123 how so? You do realize Tesla has already developed a android and we area already close to functional general ai with specialized computer chips being developed for computers just to run ai right...
@@WaterspoutsOfTheDeep And? Nothing indicates to me as such that we’ll develop a robot specifically as effective as a human for senior care that would be cheaper than a human, thus not being preferable. They would also have to be considerably cheaper than nursing homes to be preferable to nursing homes, since even if a human were more expensive, nursing homes allow costs to be considerably lower with economies of scale, (i.e., one helper can be used for many more seniors).
Japan welfare is among the worst of the developed countries
Yes I remember that western governments and big business used to say "Japanese are the model capitalists democracy" we should try to be like then..you don't hear them saying that anymore!!.❤️🇦🇺
Teslabot less than 5 years from mass production in the healthcare industry.
We need those helper robots and AI to run them to be developed faster and be cheaply mass produced. Like the one Tesla is already making.
Baymax
nah they gonna make ai to steal your information and run you out of your jobs instead
Ah yes, because Tesla's products are very known for being reliable, like that stupid ass cybertruck that is so well made, that it's constantly breaking everywhere, and driving over people.
Maybe they could combine the elderly who need care and the homeless teenagers, so the teenagers have homes and the elderly are cared for? At least temporarily
Do you really think a homeless teen possibly with mental health and/or drug issues would be able to take care of an elderly person who isn’t even their family. Would you want a homeless teen caring for your elderly family. It’s a bad idea.
@@posemwen if a family member of an elderly person has abandoned that elderly person, then their opinion of who is taking care of their parent doesn't matter whatsoever
Arigatou
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the last images of this video show that there is still hope in Japanese society which, let us not forget, remains a human society like all human societies and cultures on this planet and that, well year after year, this society also remains a variation of all other human societies.
it is also the product of a history, that of the forced "westernization" of Japanese society, a westernization against which the Japanese
- especially classes not part of the "elite" -
were unable to protect themselves.
emotionally speaking, these are very trying situations.
9:22 Completely ignoring the preexisting underlying mental condition that lead to the act is very telling of the culture
Ungrateful young people those relatives took care of them when you were a baby and they even tought you how to live and survive in this miserable life and now that they are old it is time to to thow them in the teash. I am a caretaker of my parents and two single aunts and I am glad I have them in my life !
have you been caring for them for 40 years? are you 80 years old? the point is that these people are old themselves with no more energy anymore. if you are 80 and do everything then you must still have health.
Not all these old terds are benevolent and loving in their means of parenting. They only took care of themselves and their own convenience! What you reap is what you sew, and people who have been narcissistic, abusive, assholes all their lives are entitled to nothing!
Most of those Japanese people only had one or two kids. You are demanding a lot from one child. You are asking one person to take care of their parents and themselves. That young person won’t be having children if there going to be this stress out. If I was their father, I want my children to take care of their kids first and If I’m able i would help out. I would take them to school and cook for them and when I get too old and become a nuisance to my family it’s only nature for me to kill myself as a man. I would never ever want to stress out my family. I rather die than live be a burden to them.
I think what this documentary is trying to pinpoint is that, with Japans ever increasing cost of living and stagnant wages, it is very hard to juggle daily life itself yet alone care for their parents.
And those who care for their parents are at the age of either 60+ or 80+ still needing to work menial job just to get by. If they quit their job they use their savings to care for their parents and by the time their parents leave this world, they have no savings of their own.
It's not easy being a caretaker especially when you are financially tight and I guess everyone has their own story.
A shout out to those who endured through the tough times caring for their disabled elderly parent at the same time going through financial difficulties in the process. May God bless your lovely soul.
"Ungrateful young people"
Dude, these people have their own lives, they need to work, and have their own family to raise, they shouldn't be expected to take care of their aging parents forever. Some of those caretakers ARE LITERALLY SENIORS THEMSELVES!
How selfish do you have to be to call this "being ungrateful"?
Just tell already that you don't see your children like actual people, but just as servants/slaves who only exist to do your bidding.
When we've managed to extend people's lives to 150 years and they require 24 hour incontinence care, bathing, feeding, showering, clothing, attending to falls, demented outbursts, medication, joint replacement, cardiac, liver, renal and pulmonary support. What then? Who's going to do this? Who's going to pay for it? We're going to have to import 1 billion carers from Africa, 1 billion from India and 1 billion from China. Great - Now then. Who's going to look after those carers when they get old?
Treat people up to the age of 75. After that, they're on their own. No medications, no surgery, no facilities, no *anything* - or the old people will drain all the resources from society and make life for the young in this world a living hell. (Young people who deserve a chance to blossom - not eternally bear the burden of a decrepit old parasitic blob).
hahahahahahahahahahahahaha well put and funny!
Have you watched the movie called Plan 75? It is worth watching and it will make you think.