介護支援専門員（Certified care manager)

介護支援専門員（Certified care manager) · 12日 12月 2025

The practical training course for care managers lasted a long three months, one month of which included three days of internship at an in-home long-term care support provider, while the remaining time was mainly devoted to the assignment of creating care plans. It was very challenging because no tardiness or absences were permitted. Towards the end of the training, I actually became ill, but even though I felt dizzy, I attended every day and somehow managed to complete the entire schedule. In...

介護支援専門員（Certified care manager) · 11日 12月 2025

For example, on the first day of my internship, I visited a family where the daughter was caring for her elderly mother with dementia, who lived alone at home. The daughter appeared haggard, with a makeup-free face and vacant eyes. Once she began talking to the internship instructor (the care manager), she could not stop, speaking endlessly about rambling matters that were not quite complaints but sounded more like complaints than anything else. Even though it was my first time meeting the...

介護支援専門員（Certified care manager) · 10日 12月 2025

Elderly people with dementia and care managers I shadowed the training instructor and visited the homes of elderly residents living in the community, where I observed the care management process as it unfolded between the instructor—who was also a care manager—and the residents. Although it was only a short period of three days, what left the strongest impression on me was that I became keenly aware of the challenges involved in caring for elderly people with dementia living at home in the...

介護支援専門員（Certified care manager) · 09日 12月 2025

My internship instructor reassured me that instead of trying to simply fill in the list of questions, I should begin with topics that clients find easy to talk about, that this would make it easier to get them to open up, and that I did not need to rush because I would naturally learn this through experience. However, since what the internship instructor pointed out is something that is usually acquired through many years of experience, I believe the comments were quite advanced, especially...

介護支援専門員（Certified care manager) · 08日 12月 2025

On the second day of the internship, I accompanied my instructor on a home visit to a client and observed the assessment process as it was carried out. After returning to the office, we conducted a mock assessment interview through role-play, with the instructor acting as both the client and their family. I am not good at communicating with others to begin with, and on top of that, I think I was extremely nervous because the person I was interviewing was not only a veteran care manager but also...

介護支援専門員（Certified care manager) · 07日 12月 2025

As expected, the highlight of this training course was the practical internship at an in-home long-term care support provider. During the internship, candidates accompanied their care manager instructors on home visits, where they learned about actual care management practices through interactions between the instructors and clients, as well as through role-playing exercises on care plan creation with the instructors. The in-home long-term care support provider where I was assigned for my...

介護支援専門員（Certified care manager) · 06日 12月 2025

Care Manager Practical Training The 20th Tokyo Metropolitan Care Manager Practical Training offered several schedules, depending on the date, training venue, and whether the course was in-person or correspondence. I was assigned to take the correspondence course, which ran from January to March 2018 (Heisei 30) and included preparatory study using DVDs. The training course was divided into two semesters, with a three-day internship at an in-home care support provider taking place over about one...

介護支援専門員（Certified care manager) · 05日 12月 2025

In late November, I received the results of the 2017 (Heisei 29) Tokyo Metropolitan Care Manager Practical Training Examination. I passed, scoring 23 out of 25 in the long-term care support area; and in the health, medical, and welfare services area, 14 out of 15 on basic knowledge of health and medical services, 5 out of 5 on comprehensive knowledge of health and medical services, and 14 out of 15 on knowledge of welfare services—making a total of 56 out of 60 correct. It had been several...

介護支援専門員（Certified care manager) · 04日 12月 2025

I remember that the results were announced in late November. However, various prep schools and welfare publishers immediately posted the exam answers online on the day of the exam or the following day. I also tried marking my own test, which made me confident that I would not fail. I remember that at the time I was considering whether to resign from my job at the group home for elderly people with dementia, but I was also gradually hoping to become involved in creating care plans for those with...