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Hmong Aging
Another culture, another reality...
In the world of change where time and quality request financial independence, what will be the colour of our last age, the old age? Who will take care of us becoming old and disable? Worker in a post-industrial society, one only exists by the professional place, the capability to bring back home a salary. As for the Hmong traditional society, one only exists by the social recognition through the kinship and the number of descendants, and not the professional achievement. Reaching the old age, what will be one's life without work, strength to earn a living, family support and love? Beyond the institutional protections (the welfare, the Medi-Cal or Medicaid, the retirement), who will be the caring ones that, unfortunately, money cannot pay for?Hmong people came from far, from a society promoting auto-sufficiency and interdependence to a society in transition where the individualization process develops new forms of solidarity and responsibility among its members: the notion of sufficiency or interdependence concerns more individuals than community growth. Nowadays, what are the duties of a child toward his/her parents? What kinds of expectation do parents have toward their children? In Hmong American communities, what are the needs of elderly people? Are they different in nature if compared to the ones in the traditional sittings in Southeast Asia? Is there any gap in term of understanding of the Elderly needs, the aging process, the notion of aging on behalf of the children toward their parents and vice versa? Is the senior home becoming the alternative choice for children to take care of their parents? Do elderly parents accept to live in these places?