Noonelikesthe“oldpeople”smell.Noone,noteventhe   41   p...

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No one likes the “old people” smell. No one, not even the    41    people. Trust me, I know.

I volunteer at a hospice of Alzheimer’s Care(老年痴呆患者临终安养院). My health book    42   a pretty picture of hospices, describing them as homes where family members and the sick can work together in    43    incurable illness. It shows pictures of    44    patients speaking to doctors, with, of course, loving ones around them.

That’s    45    what a hospice is. There aren’t family members, only cards sent periodically during the year. The    46    I help seldom smile because they’re struggling to    47    where they are, what year it is,    48    their own names.

And they don’t like the “old people” smell—the smell of disease, of medicine and sweat, or of the lost self-respect. They don’t like it. But they    49    in it.

Next week is my    50   .  I’m moving soon and I won’t have to    51    that hospice. I won’t have to    52    a woman who can’t even close her mouth, or    53    a man who’s crying because he can’t stop shaking    54    enough to tie his shoes. I won’t have to run for a nurse when Evelyn falls out of her wheel-chair.

But I feel far from    55   . After four years of volunteering, the place is the same as the day I started. All the    56    remains fresh, never to be cut through by youthful spirits.

Some visit. Some bring cake and puppy dogs and flowers. But only    57   . When you were born, loving arms held you. Shouldn’t you    58    that way too? Shouldn’t the elderly, who’ve lived their lives, raised their    59    and contributed to society be cared about? Shouldn’t they end feeling loved? Why don’t    60   ?

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