Living better together: Japan’s bold move to fight dementia means adapting to it paid JapanGov
In Japan, dementia rates are high in part due to the country’s aging demographic. By the middle of the decade, 1 in 5 elderly Japanese are expected to be affected.
In sync with governmental measures, companies and local governments are also working on ways to promote co-existence in broader society and prevent dementia via the use of technology and new social systems.A simple and effective ways to delay the onset of dementia is to help those affected engage with the broader community. Silverwood Corp., a Japanese operator of homes for the elderly, is employing both high-tech and basic human solutions to foster such interaction.
The home allows locals to rent open space for private classes. Citizens with no relation to the home have come in to study English, or another topic, and ended up mingling with the residents. At one point, a private teacher ran a dance class that some of the elderly also joined, Mr, Fumoto said with a smile.
Fumoto Shinichiro, head of the Silverwood Urayasu elderly home, says residents need to feel free to be healthy. Silverwood’s VR stories have won great interest from the general public as more people seek to understand the condition.One VR movie shows a person with visuospatial dysgnosia trying to disembark from a car. The viewer of the virtual reality film experiences a situation in which the request to disembark from a car feels akin to being asked to jump off a tall building.
The ordinance also acted as a platform for research institutes, universities, and the Kobe Biomedical Innovation Cluster , the city’s world-class hub for regenerative medicine, among other parties, to collaborate on finding ways to improve prevention and early intervention. Developed by local firm Total Brain Care Inc., with support from KBIC, the Life Sciences Institute, hospitals and research institutions, as well as other businesses, CogEvo uses simple shape- and number-based games to train the brain’s cognitive functions.
Cognitive decline roughly mirrors the way that children learn cognitive skills in the first place, so it is important to find ways to help people retain those functions for longer, Mr. Kawagoe said. One such platform is an app that gives citizens access to their Personal Health Record . A first in Japan, Kobe City launched the “My Condition Kobe” app in April 2019. Its aim is to give people control of their health data .
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