認知症対応型グループホーム E (Group home for dementia care E) · 19日 6月 2025
Even when I worked part-time as a care worker at a nursing home, as a visiting home helper, or at a group home for elderly people with dementia, I think I interacted with the elderly clients with the same feeling I had when visiting my grandparents during my elementary and junior high school days—spending time with them in the countryside. When I was working as a care worker, I was already well past 40, but in many ways, it felt like I was simply a grandchild visiting my grandparents in the...
認知症対応型グループホーム E (Group home for dementia care E) · 18日 6月 2025
My elementary and junior high school days were incredibly boring, and I hated them. It was not that I disliked studying, but I think I felt uncomfortable being part of a group at school—especially when it came to relationships with classmates and teachers. I did not necessarily feel like everyone was bullying me, but I always had the sense that everyone disliked me. I hated being in the classroom, too. While most of my classmates seemed to be friends and always stuck together, I was...
認知症対応型グループホーム E (Group home for dementia care E) · 17日 6月 2025
I had always loved spending time with my grandparents. Whenever I had a long break, like summer vacation, I would almost always go to my mother’s parents’ house and spend the entire vacation there. I did not have any friends of my age in that area, so I spent nearly a month just with my grandparents. Still, I felt incredibly comfortable and safe. Now that I am halfway through my life, I reflect on what it was that made me feel so at ease there—it was probably something like the following....
認知症対応型グループホーム E (Group home for dementia care E) · 16日 6月 2025
Group home for dementia care E Grandparents in the countryside Whether at the paid nursing home for the elderly or the visiting home help service provider, I experienced a lot of friction and trouble with my superiors and other staff members, and often felt uncomfortable. However, the elderly clients were very kind to me, and I could not bear to cut ties with those I had cared for. As a result, I hesitated many times when it came time to actually quit. Since most of the clients were elderly,...
訪問介護事業所 F (Home help service provider F) · 15日 6月 2025
In the end, I think I may have simply been looking for a reason to quit. What ultimately made up my mind was a casual comment from a full-time staff member at the home help service provider. He referred to us as “a helper for the full-time staff.” It is true that home helper assignments are passed on to us by the full-time staff, and although it may sound harsh, the reality is that we are essentially “given work” at their discretion. In that moment, I realized that this was how we were...
訪問介護事業所 F (Home help service provider F) · 14日 6月 2025
Reasons for quitting my helper job I had been working as a visiting home helper while also serving as a caregiver at a group home for elderly people with dementia. I found the work at the group home very engaging and educational, and it sparked a strong interest in studying elderly welfare—particularly care for those with dementia—on a more professional level. As a result, in April 2012, I decided to enroll in a training course for the national qualification of psychiatric social worker....
訪問介護事業所 F (Home help service provider F) · 13日 6月 2025
Thus, one important lesson I learned from my experience as a visiting home helper is that, when caring for elderly people with dementia at home, it is essential to have at least one reliable family member—such as a spouse who has lived with them for many years, or an adult child—by their side at all times. However, when both the caregiver and the care recipient are elderly, many challenges arise. Elderly couples living in the community while trying to care for one another—such as cases...
訪問介護事業所 F (Home help service provider F) · 12日 6月 2025
If elderly people living alone are relatively healthy and have no cognitive impairments, it may be possible for them to continue living independently in familiar neighborhoods—especially if they make effective use of visiting home help services. However, as people age, some degree of cognitive decline is almost inevitable. For those who are clearly experiencing dementia, living alone becomes extremely difficult, if not impossible. After all, once cognitive function deteriorates, managing...
訪問介護事業所 F (Home help service provider F) · 11日 6月 2025
The reality of caring for the elderly at home – its difficulties However, I also believe that the serious challenges in providing elderly care at home remain unresolved—and if these issues are not addressed, even greater difficulties may await future generations. For example, consider the difficulties faced by elderly people living alone in their communities. Even when moving around town, you may have seen elderly individuals slowly crossing streets or railroad crossings by themselves,...
訪問介護事業所 F (Home help service provider F) · 10日 6月 2025
In addition, even if you plan to move into a nursing home, the initial cost can be significant. Even in relatively low-cost facilities, demand is high, and you may have to wait a long time for a vacancy to become available. There has long been a shortage of care workers, and I have heard that this lack is limiting the number of people who can enter care facilities. Given these challenges, living comfortably at home with the support of a visiting care worker, if needed, seems like a practical...