Falls in the aged have become a severe public health problem, and medical nursing care workers should attach importance to it.

老年人的跌跤问题已成为一个严重的公共健康问题，医护人员应予以重视。

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Demand for staff is falling across the board, other than in nursing and medical care.

除了护理和医疗机构外，现在机构对人员的需求在普遍下滑。

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It added that the "most compassionate course is to provide love, support and the best possible medical and nursing care, not to acquiesce in requests for assisted suicide.

除此以外“最好的同情行为是给予爱，提供最好的医疗条件和护理而不是默认他们的自杀请求。”

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But the premise of this agreement is measures to hold down ballooning old-age pension, medical, and nursing care costs.

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Placement in any of these programs requires that a potential resident be medically stable, have sufficient functional defects to make inpatient nursing home care necessary, and receive an assessment by a medical provider that states institutional nursing home care is necessary.

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The most likely situation is that the grandparents are living comfortably on the national pension, plus their own savings, and enjoying almost free medical care, while planning to enroll in a nursing care program for which they will pay only a fraction of the cost.

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