Reformation of The Neighborhood Care Homes Is Essential

Timeless Issues
2 min readJan 8, 2021

The society comprises of various types of people. The increasing pollution level, stressful work life, and poor nutritional habits have become the cause of the rising number of disabilities in children. In the past few years, the growth rate of children with physical and mental disabilities has increased significantly. While some families have the financial strength and mental determination to groom these kids in the best possible way, some families prefer to disown them completely.

A noble work

There are many care homes where disabled people can stay and get the right treatment they deserve. There is already the concept of old age homes to take care of the seniors. These homes for special adults are yet another instance of noble work. But the noble cause is somewhat vanishing, and the profit-making mentality is replacing compassion. If you take a peek into some neighborhood care homes, you will be petrified to see the condition inside.

Complete chaos

While many believe that the specially privileged or underprivileged people should stay in the care homes, the practical scenario is far from good. Complete chaos prevails in most of the care homes due to a lack of proper management. It is not easy to deal with people having various disabilities. Unless you have received training in managing such people and how to train them, there is no point in opening up a care center to make some quick money.

Need for grooming

Society still accepts misbehavior and poor grooming of the mentally challenged, developmentally disabled, or alcoholic people because people still believe that you cannot expect good behavior from them. But it is a huge misconception. If you know how to groom them, you can teach etiquette to each of these individuals.

It is easy to make the public believe that it is their obligation to accept misbehavior from disadvantaged people. But the truth is, the specially challenged people will understand it is their obligation to behave properly only when the social workers will put in some effort to teach them.

Act sensibly

You must have come across advertisements of the neighborhood care homes where the social workers claim to maintain a completely happy family environment. But that is a myth. The practical scenario is horrible in most cases. The alcoholics keep on shouting, use abusive languages, the retarded ones learn the misbehavior, people yell and fight among each other. The condition can never improve unless the social worker owing the care homes aim to reform the homes.

Need for reformation

It is necessary to spread a word of awareness among the social workers and youth about your responsibility to take care of those who are a few steps backward in comparison to those who call themselves “normal.” The mentally disabled children can grow up into fine human beings, and the alcoholics can bounce back into normal life if only these homes provide the real care they need. Sensible talking, explaining the basic ways of life, and teaching them all good habits will genuinely help in the reformation of these homes.

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