building in a suburb of Tokyo, eight old people are sitting around tables in a spotless living room with a kitchenette attached. They are enjoying a quiz game, which entails shouting out the word that completes a well-known phrase or saying. One woman is first to all the answers, with nobody else getting a look-in. But, say staff at this care home, one of 280 run by Nichi Gakkan, a medical-services company, she forgets what happened ten minutes ago.
Just behind Japan demographically are greying western European countries such as Italy and Portugal, and the Asian tigers: Hong Kong, Singapore, South Korea and Taiwan. These trends of longer lifespans and lower fertility rates will, barring disaster, be followed by the rest of the world. So how Japan copes with a problem that every country will have to confront is instructive.
Many care homes are gruesome places, in which sedated residents sit or lie vacantly while overworked staff struggle to fulfil routines for administering medicine, food and exercise, and a television blares in a crowded living room. Efforts are being made to improve such homes, with more emphasis placed on treating residents as individuals.
Some places in Japan are bolstering care at home not just with visits from professional carers but by making daily life more “dementia-friendly”. According to the government, 12m people across the country have been given rudimentary training as “dementia supporters”. In Matsudo, a suburb of Tokyo, the local government and volunteers organise “dementia cafés”, weekly get-togethers for those with relatively mild dementia, for whom day-care facilities are not yet suitable.
This is partly a simple function of demography as society ages. But it is also partly because care workers often endure low status and low pay, a sad truth highlighted in the covid-19 pandemic as society leant on them more heavily than ever. In Britain, for example, under the new immigration policy the government is introducing for the post-Brexit world, most jobs in care will not pay high enough wages to allow employers to recruit overseas.
Investing in social care.
By hiring a nurse for sleep joe and giving him a warm blanket.Quit tormenting the old guy and let him go back to sleep
nursinghomes cannot pay a living wage to employees b/c if they did, only 1%ers could afford, else bankruptcy. Families can provide 24/7/365 more efficiently than business AIEthics is an imperative to use AI for SafetyFirst eldercare via tech eg. personal robots , etc.
there is no shortage of work. there is only a failed economic system that cannot arrange for people to do it.
Simple, bind their faces in a mask
Great idea, Japan! AgeFriendlySanMateo CityofSanMateo
Human touch in a humane manner is the need !
Import qualifies nurses from the Fillippeens and Thailand. Send home the sexist anafabetic young islamic men that posed as refugees and invaded Europe.
Sad 😥 hoping it gets better
Healthcare needs to respected on the same level as the military, first responders, and post office and funded as vigorously as our military and stock markets. We need to end the privatization of healthcare and ensure choice and freedom simultaneously.
abrol_abhishek
The big question about dementia is whether our President has it
let the Filipinos in
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