Observation on Alzheimer Disease over Taiwan

Over the past decades aging population has been escalating rapidly in Taiwan which follows a lot of diseases for the elderly including "Dementia"!
Alzheimer disease takes up more than half of the "Dementia" diagnosis in Taiwan.
Taiwan's own culture/civilization which differentiate from the western world, the approach taken is not the same to the outside world! For example, most of the family of the patient prefer to take care of him/her at home instead of allocating into relevant nursing home. It is a kind of ethical concept within Taiwanese society that kids should take up his/her obligation to take care of their parents!
In my opinion, carer at home even play a more important role than professionals working in nursing home. The reason is; he/she has to take ethicality into account whereby professionals didn't have to bother.
Prior fully discussed with a couple of home carers (kids of the patient), he/she agreed that patients stayed at home could impart better result on avoiding speedy deterioration of "Amnesia", in spite of using drugs; they devoted love, care and tolerance which harmonizing patient's emotion/spirit in a matter of weeks!
As aging population turn out to be a trend worldwide, Dementia will be escalating in the next decade, how to contain such disease become a big issue to all countries concerned and no exception to Taiwan.
As a matter of fact, Taiwanese government has been highly alarm on deamatic increase of dementia disease during the past years and injecting funding to addres the issue.
We have heapts of NGO croping up during the last few years trying to help our society confronting Dementia; besides more and more nursing homes run by hospitals also join the team tackle the problem. At the present moment, our NGO is recruiting professional carers as to assist patients with Dementia. From this year onward our government is conducting a series of survey throughout Taiwan (with the help from some specially appointed NGO) to find out latest data taking place over Taiwan with Dementia. Final result will be released withint the next couple of years!
In accordance with my observation on Dementia disease over Taiwan for the past years, I strongly believed that "psychosocial intervention" will be the most effective way to contain the disease.
Even though most of us realized that there is no remedy for Dementia up till now, nevertheless, we can still find ways and means to delay the period of deterioration. Carer (specially kids of the family) is playing an important role to bring patient's livelihood back to normal!
Ultimately, I have to sign off with my heartiest wishese and belssings to all patients with Dementia worldwide, hoping their desease could be completely wiped out one day!

Taiwan overshadowed with poisonous stuff

During the past few weeks, Taiwan has been hard hit by waves of poisonous stuff and devastating the brand name of "Made in Taiwan".
for decades, we sustained with excellent credibility on our products that serves as a symbol guaranteed best quality to overseas markets, nevertheless, our brand's name has suffered a big blow from what happened in the past months. from early April, our department of health has found out plasticizer chemicals been added into our health food products. Furthermore, lots of food such as fruit jam, sports drink, bread, cakes, even medicinal drugs revealed being containminated, most of our citizen are shocked and starting to panic, we even do not know how to avoid our health be affected?
From the latest findings, such scenario has taken place for 20 - 30 years which means all of us more or less been affected, in accordance to the latest test report, "ginger powder" imported from china carried more than 33,100 ppm on DIBP which is used for health food. As the snow ball rolls bigger, more people becoming panic on the impact to their daily life; as far as the government of Taiwan is concerned, I really cannot see any effective policy to contain those poisonous stuff from spreading all over the place.
Once again, it is quite clear for one to realize that china product cannot be trusted (no matter food or other sundries), as they have no idea on how to protect one's health, but only chase for profit, profit, profit).
In fact, conscience is playing an important roll in doing business, it is an ongoing sustainable career, we have to live with it in the long run but not just "hit and run"!
For example, "I-Mei" is one of the well known bakery/confectionery enterprises which established for 75 years in Taiwan, their principle is to do business with conscience and honesty, all their products sustained with high credibility on quality/quantity, they are one of the exceptional enterprise which jumps out of the storm this time.
My heartiest advice to those being hard hit is; do not buy anything that made in china and not to use their food additive irrespective of the low prices. Refuse to purchase anything that you do not know the sources, get what you ought to get, that is the best way to be survive.
God bless Taiwan

The aftermath of earthquake at Christchurch, New Zealand

I have been too lazy to write during the past few months partly because I am sort of fatigue and partly because I haven't found good topics to express my views! Here I am back to my blog and drop down what has happened to me during the earthquake taken place over New Zealand on 22nd February, 2011. During the 7.3 magnitude on the Richter scale earthquake happened over New Zealand at Christchurch (The Garden City), I was spending my holiday with my family at that point of time; would like to share with all pals on line about the devastation in the epicentre on that date~~ Me and my wife has been going out for lunch about 12 o'clock noon time on 22nd February, 2011. We left the hotel at Colombo Street (which is at the epicentre), wandering around the street and looking for something to eat, I have browsed around in a watch shop and fond of one of the watch desplayed on the shelf, so we approached the shop and wish to check the price, but the shop gave us his cold shoulder and keep on working in the shop, I was a bit disappointed on the way he expressed to clients so we left the shop in a couple of minutes. Then we stroll further on and found one chinese restaurant at the corner of the street which served "Dim Sum", both of us are so delighted and order our menu about 12:45 noon, few moments later (the time on the clock hanging against the wall showed 12:50), the whole building starts shaking back and forth, ups and downs, we are so terrified and hide ourselves under the table, the quake finished within about 30 seconds, then we grab our bags and rush out of the place. Opposite side of the restauarant there was a building which has been completely collapsed, with our camera on hand, I promptly take a couple of snapshots on our way back to the hotel. Along the street there were few coaches and buses smashed into a "tin", people has been dragged out of the wreck with bloodshed all over the body. Stepping over the rubble, we try to make our way back home but has been stopped by the policeman as we walked half way through, he guided us to the open place (park) near by. The whole CBD has been cordoned off and nobody is allowed to enter without permission. We wait for the shelter to be set up by Red Cross during the evening and registered our details as to try and leave the city, with nothing on hand except passports, cameras, mobile phone, wallets (all luggages has been left behind), we eventually found our way home after an agonizing journey that takes us four days to reach Taiwan. In the end, we found ourselves sound and safe (without hurting ourselves and survive), thanks to God that me and my family could survive from this catastrophe. As to summarize this diary, all I could say is, we are far too lucky/fortunate than those victims whom suffered from the terrible earthquake with tsunami over Japan. God bless Taiwan