NEWS & INFORMATION <\/strong><\/p>\nThe number of persons over 65 exceeded 20% of the total population in Japan in Oct. 2005 (Cabinet Office, Japan)<\/p>\n
The proper treatment of hypertension is related to prevention of dementia.<\/p>\n
( \u201cStroke,\u201d April 6, 2006 USA) <\/sup><\/p>\n2<\/strong>\uff65UPDATE FROM AAJ HEADQUARTERS<\/strong><\/p>\nGeneral Meeting Report<\/p>\n
3<\/strong>\uff65<\/strong>PRACTICE REPORT\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u201cA Heart of Anywhere, Anytime\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\nAn approach to building a comfortable community for PWDs and their families<\/p>\n
4\uff65<\/strong>LETTERS FROM MEMBERS<\/strong><\/p>\n*It is unreasonable that the elderly cannot die naturally at hospitals and in nursing homes contrary to their and their families\u2019 will.\u00a0 (57-year-old woman)<\/p>\n
*My mother has dementia but lives alone by her own choice in a town one-and-a half hours drive from my home. Often neighbors call me to urge me to commit her to a nursing home. But I respect her will to stay at her home as long as possible and I visit her everyday to take care of her.<\/p>\n
<\/strong>(52-year-old woman)<\/p>\n <\/strong><\/p>\n5<\/strong>\uff65<\/strong>ADVICE FOR CARE\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 BY AAJ Telephone Counselor<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/strong><\/p>\n6<\/strong>\uff65<\/strong>BOOK REVIEW<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/strong><\/p>\n7<\/strong>\uff65<\/strong>ACTIVITIES of AAJ CHAPTERS<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/strong><\/p>\n8<\/strong>\uff65<\/strong>DR\u2019S COMMENT \u201dHOME TERMINAL CARE\u201d <\/strong><\/p>\n <\/strong><\/p>\n9<\/strong>\uff65<\/strong>MESSAGE FROM PWDs \u201d LISTEN TO MY HEART\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/strong><\/p>\n10<\/strong>\uff65<\/strong>PRESIDENT\u2019S COLUMN\u00a0 By Kunio Takami, President of AAJ<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/strong><\/p>\nOne day in June, I followed the trial of a 54-year-old son who killed his 86-year-old mother with dementia. He quit his job to care for her and finally got distressed. He applied for public assistance 3 times but was denied. He despaired and decided to commit double suicide and killed her.<\/strong><\/p>\nThough I heard the stifling of sobs for their situation, I didn\u2019t shed tears.<\/strong><\/p>\nThis is not a sob story but a serious problem that involves complicated factors, such as the Long Term Care Insurance system which demands money from a service user, and a public office that only examines an applicant\u2019s qualification for public assistance and his way of life by which he chose his mother\u2019s death rather than trouble others.<\/strong><\/p>\nI have had a heavy heart since the court day.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/strong><\/p>\n<Additional information><\/strong><\/p>\nThe decision handed down by the Kyoto Prefectural Court on July 21 <\/sup>was three years probation with a suspended sentence of 2 years and 6months. <\/strong><\/p>\n <\/strong><\/p>\n <\/strong><\/p>\nTake heart and take care till next month!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ALZHEIMER\u2019S ASSOCIATION JAPAN, MEWSLETTER \u201cPole-Pole\u201d BULLETIN NO,312 July 2006 office@alzheimer.or.jp https:\/ […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13545,"parent":5044,"menu_order":3,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_lightning_design_setting":[],"vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-5208","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alzheimer.or.jp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5208"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alzheimer.or.jp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alzheimer.or.jp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alzheimer.or.jp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alzheimer.or.jp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5208"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.alzheimer.or.jp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5208\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alzheimer.or.jp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5044"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alzheimer.or.jp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/13545"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alzheimer.or.jp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}