Wu Hua-chien, a community worker with the Old Five Old Foundation, says that many elderly quake victims insisted on staying in their own neighborhoods, because firstly they had more privacy there, secondly they were afraid that if they went into a home people would speak badly of their children, and thirdly they would miss their long-established neighborly relationships.
老五老基金會社工員巫樺全指出，許多老人還是堅持要留在社區裡，一來比較有隱私，二來怕孩子被人說話，三是依戀舊有的鄰里關係。