認知症対応型グループホーム E (Group home for dementia care E)

認知症対応型グループホーム E (Group home for dementia care E) · 06日 7月 2025

After I started working at the group home, I began to feel a desire to study elderly welfare more professionally. As a result, while continuing to work there, I enrolled in a certified psychiatric social worker training course at a welfare college located relatively close to my parents' house. As I mentioned earlier, I had doubts about whether the current state of welfare and care for the elderly was truly sufficient. This led me to start thinking more deeply about what kind of society would...

認知症対応型グループホーム E (Group home for dementia care E) · 05日 7月 2025

I can fully understand the policy of placing emphasis on providing functional training for daily life and offering support that considers residents' lives within the community when caring for elderly people with dementia, and I personally sympathize with this approach. I believe that helping residents maintain their abilities and independence is important for preserving their self-esteem and confidence. However, if a resident is crying because she does not know how to do something, is it really...

認知症対応型グループホーム E (Group home for dementia care E) · 04日 7月 2025

Of course, I believe it is best for residents to do things themselves if they have the ability. However, for example, imagine asking someone with hemiplegia or partial paralysis to put on a shirt by themselves. Even if they are capable of doing it, if it takes them 30 minutes, I honestly think it would be better to help them finish it in about 5 minutes and use the remaining 25 minutes for something more enjoyable. That is why, although I understood that the floor leader’s policy of...

認知症対応型グループホーム E (Group home for dementia care E) · 03日 7月 2025

When I was working at the group home in downtown Tokyo, something like this happened. I remember it was nearly bedtime, and one of the elderly residents needed a cover put on her futon. I believe the home's policy—especially the floor leader's strong intention—was to encourage all residents who were capable to do things by themselves. On this occasion, too, I remember the leader handing me the futon cover and asking me to let the resident do it herself. However, in reality, when it comes to...

認知症対応型グループホーム E (Group home for dementia care E) · 02日 7月 2025

I believe that group homes for people with dementia—including the one I worked at in downtown Tokyo—generally do not provide care unilaterally. Instead, they rely on residents’ remaining abilities and aim to support them in ways that foster autonomy and self-reliance as much as possible. I had the opportunity to work in three group homes, including one in downtown Tokyo. Each home had its own characteristics, and the extent to which residents were entrusted with daily activities varied....

認知症対応型グループホーム E (Group home for dementia care E) · 01日 7月 2025

Reason for quitting I believe I learned a great deal from my experiences at the group home. It is true that when I first started working there, I was often scratched by one resident—my arms were covered in blood almost every day—and once, an elderly female resident even spat on me. I had never experienced anything like that before, and I found myself wondering what was going to happen to me. However, working at the group home and interacting with the residents gave me the opportunity to...

認知症対応型グループホーム E (Group home for dementia care E) · 30日 6月 2025

Given that she passed away the day she was discharged from the hospital, some might think there was no point in hospitalizing my 98-year-old grandmother, whose consciousness was already clouded. However, for those of us left behind, we were left with the strong sense that we had done everything we could for her. At the very least, I do not think I was left with the same kind of regret I felt after my maternal grandmother’s passing. To be honest, I could not help but think that she must have...

認知症対応型グループホーム E (Group home for dementia care E) · 29日 6月 2025

My paternal grandmother had dementia and was living in a nursing home. Toward the end of her life, she would keep her eyes closed, would not respond when we spoke to her, and seemed to have clouded consciousness. The care manager at the facility and the visiting doctor suggested that, since she was already 98, it might be best to focus on keeping her comfortable rather than pursuing active treatment. My father seemed to spend some time thinking about what to do. I do not think my grandmother...

認知症対応型グループホーム E (Group home for dementia care E) · 28日 6月 2025

Lessons my two grandmothers left My maternal grandmother passed away while I was a doctoral student at the University of Tsukuba, after returning from Delaware. During my elementary and junior high school years, I had difficulty adjusting to school life, and my grandmother in the countryside was a deeply important presence in my life. Perhaps because she had lived alone for so long, my grandmother's health began to decline the year I returned from the U.S., and she was hospitalized. Since I had...