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24.09.26 Nursing Homes

ํ•˜ ๋Œ€ํ‘œ 2024. 10. 8. 21:03

My 91-year-old mother’s dementia took a turn for the worse this year.

โ€‹์˜ฌํ•ด 91์„ธ๊ฐ€ ๋˜์‹  ์–ด๋จธ๋‹ˆ๊ป˜์„œ ์น˜๋งค๊ฐ€ ์ ์  ์‹ฌํ•ด์ง€์…จ๋‹ค.

* take a turn for the worse : ์•…ํ™”๋˜๋‹ค

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She is taking prescription medication, but it only slows the progression; there is no cure.

์น˜๋งค์•ฝ์„ ์ฒ˜๋ฐฉ๋ฐ›์•„ ๋ณต์šฉํ•˜๊ณ  ๊ณ„์‹œ์ง€๋งŒ, ์น˜๋งค๋ฅผ ๋Šฆ์ถœ ๋ฟ์ด์ง€ ์™„์พŒํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์€ ์•„๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

* take prescription medication : ์ฒ˜๋ฐฉ์•ฝ์„ ๋ณต์šฉํ•˜๋‹ค

* slow the progression : ์•…ํ™”[์ง„์ฒ™]์„ ๋Šฆ์ถ”๋‹ค

* there is no cure : ์™„์พŒ๊ฐ€ ๋ถˆ๊ฐ€๋Šฅํ•˜๋‹ค

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Caring for my mother at home was no easy task.

์–ด๋จธ๋‹ˆ๋ฅผ ๊ฐ€์ •์—์„œ ๋Œ๋ณด๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์€ ์—ฌ๊ฐ„ ํž˜๋“  ์ผ์ด ์•„๋‹ˆ์—ˆ๋‹ค.

* care for someone at home : ~๋ฅผ ๊ฐ€์ •์—์„œ ๋Œ๋ณด๋‹ค

* no easy task : ์‰ฝ์ง€ ์•Š์€ ์ผ

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So, we finally decided to place her in a nursing home.

๊ทธ๋ž˜์„œ ๋๋‚ด ์š”์–‘์›์— ๋ชจ์‹œ๊ธฐ๋กœ ๊ฒฐ์ •ํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

* place someone in a nursing home : ~๋ฅผ ์š”์–‘์›์— ๋ชจ์‹œ๋‹ค[๋งก๊ธฐ๋‹ค]

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The director of the nursing home reassured us, saying that their excellent geriatric caregivers would look after her with dedication and love, as if she were their own parent.

์š”์–‘์› ์›์žฅ๋‹˜์€ ์šฐ์ˆ˜ํ•œ ์š”์–‘ ๋ณดํ˜ธ์‚ฌ๋ถ„๋“ค์ด ๋‚ด ๋ถ€๋ชจ๋ฅผ ๋ชจ์‹œ๋Š” ๋งˆ์Œ์œผ๋กœ ์ •์„ฑ๊ณผ ์‚ฌ๋ž‘์œผ๋กœ ์ž˜ ๋ณด์‚ดํŽด ๋“œ๋ฆฌ๋‹ˆ๊นŒ

* geriatric caregiver : ์š”์–‘ ๋ณดํ˜ธ์‚ฌ

* with dedication and love : ์ •์„ฑ๊ณผ ์‚ฌ๋ž‘์œผ๋กœ

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We were told that we shouldn’t worry too much.

๋„ˆ๋ฌด ๊ฑฑ์ •ํ•˜์ง€ ๋ง๋ผ๊ณ  ์œ„๋กœํ•ด ์ฃผ์…จ๋‹ค.

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Even so, my heart was so heavy on the way back after leaving my mother at the nursing home that I couldn’t focus on the road.

๊ทธ๋Ÿผ์—๋„ ์–ด๋จธ๋‹ˆ๋ฅผ ์š”์–‘์›์— ๋ชจ์…”๋‹ค ๋“œ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ๋Œ์•„์˜ค๋Š” ๊ธธ์— ๋‚˜๋Š” ๋งˆ์Œ์ด ๋„ˆ๋ฌด ์•„ํŒŒ์„œ ์šด์ „์— ์ง‘์ค‘ํ•  ์ˆ˜๊ฐ€ ์—†์—ˆ๋‹ค.

* heart is heavy : ๋งˆ์Œ์ด ์•„ํ”„๋‹ค[๋ฌด๊ฒ๋‹ค]

* focus on the road : ์šด์ „์— ์ง‘์ค‘ํ•˜๋‹ค

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I deeply regret not having done more for her before.

๊ทธ๋™์•ˆ ๋” ์ž˜ํ•ด ๋“œ๋ฆฌ์ง€ ๋ชปํ•œ ๊ฒƒ์ด ํ•œ์—†์ด ํ›„ํšŒ๊ฐ€ ๋œ๋‹ค.

* deeply regret : ๊นŠ์ด ํ›„ํšŒํ•˜๋‹ค

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I hope my mother can live a long life in the nursing home.

๋‚˜๋Š” ์–ด๋จธ๋‹ˆ๊ฐ€ ์š”์–‘์›์—์„œ๋ผ๋„ ์˜ค๋ž˜ ์˜ค๋ž˜ ์‚ฌ์…จ์œผ๋ฉด ์ข‹๊ฒ ๋‹ค.

* live a long life : ์žฅ์ˆ˜ํ•˜๋‹ค

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I also hope that science will discover a cure for dementia soon.

๋˜ํ•œ ๊ณผํ•™์˜ ๋ฐœ์ „์œผ๋กœ ํ•˜๋ฃจ ๋นจ๋ฆฌ ์น˜๋งค๊ฐ€ ์™„์น˜๋˜๋Š” ์•ฝ์ด ๋‚˜์™”์œผ๋ฉด ์ข‹๊ฒ ๋‹ค.

* discover a cure for : ~์˜ ์น˜๋ฃŒ์ œ[์น˜๋ฃŒ๋ฒ•]์„ ์ฐพ๋‹ค

 

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