Missing with Dementia: 10,000 Missing Elderly People and Their Families in Pain (Translated Documentary)
by (japan) Nhk Special Program Recording Team
About This Novel
"This is your home" - I need to tell her over and over again\u002Fhim. Winner of the Japan Literature Promotion Society Kikuchi Kan Prize, this book collects a large number of very representative cases, reflecting the problems of family care for the elderly with dementia and the shortcomings of insufficient social support in Japanese society, and giving a glimpse of the serious problems faced by the aging society. "Why can't I find it? Every day is like hell." "I dare not relax even for 5 minutes... Even so, he is still lost." Today in Japan, there are more than 8 million confirmed and potential dementia patients, and 1 in every 4 elderly people has the disease. Dementia has become a national disease. Many people are afraid to tell those around them that a family member has dementia due to fear of prejudice. These patients are at high risk of getting lost, missing, or even dying in familiar neighborhoods. The NHK special program recording team interviewed more than 400 families to face the plight of people with dementia and their families, and explore the road to "building a city where people with dementia can live with peace of mind."
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There are two main issues
Judging from the content of this book, there are currently two very serious problems in Japanese society when dealing with people with dementia: one is the non-sharing of information among organizations in various administrative agencies; the other is the rigid implementation of the Personal Information Protection Act. A large part of the latter is due to the prejudice of the patients' families against the disease itself, which leads them to hide the fact that their family members have dementia from everyone around them, thinking that they will be embarrassed if others find out. This is a very backward idea that may endanger the lives of the parties involved if necessary, and is extremely undesirable. It is urgent to start human intervention in cultural concepts. Overall, the first half of the book seems to be rather slow, with no substantive and valuable content. A large part of the book is devoted to the problems encountered during the production of this program. That is, the space spent on the "problem raising" part is too long. The content that could have been covered in one section took two or three chapters. It was only in the later chapters that the content finally became more substantial. Many cases were vividly described, and the response measures of many parties were recorded in detail. Finally, I put forward specific action suggestions based on three different aspects. It is really rare and not easy to be able to make specific suggestions. So overall, this book is good. Although it cannot be said to be excellent, I believe it can still be helpful to a certain extent for families with dementia patients.
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Official(1)Scraped 7d ago
There are two main issues
Judging from the content of this book, there are currently two very serious problems in Japanese society when dealing with people with dementia: one is the non-sharing of information among organizations in various administrative agencies; the other is the rigid implementation of the Personal Information Protection Act. A large part of the latter is due to the prejudice of the patients' families against the disease itself, which leads them to hide the fact that their family members have dementia from everyone around them, thinking that they will be embarrassed if others find out. This is a very backward idea that may endanger the lives of the parties involved if necessary, and is extremely undesirable. It is urgent to start human intervention in cultural concepts. Overall, the first half of the book seems to be rather slow, with no substantive and valuable content. A large part of the book is devoted to the problems encountered during the production of this program. That is, the space spent on the "problem raising" part is too long. The content that could have been covered in one section took two or three chapters. It was only in the later chapters that the content finally became more substantial. Many cases were vividly described, and the response measures of many parties were recorded in detail. Finally, I put forward specific action suggestions based on three different aspects. It is really rare and not easy to be able to make specific suggestions. So overall, this book is good. Although it cannot be said to be excellent, I believe it can still be helpful to a certain extent for families with dementia patients.
