{"id":5239,"date":"2013-03-04T18:35:30","date_gmt":"2013-03-04T09:35:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alzheimer.or.jp\/?page_id=5239"},"modified":"2013-03-04T18:41:03","modified_gmt":"2013-03-04T09:41:03","slug":"polepole-july-2012-25-22","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.alzheimer.or.jp\/?page_id=5239","title":{"rendered":"POLEPOLE March, 2005"},"content":{"rendered":"

ALZHEIMER\u2019S ASSOCIATION JAPAN, MEWSLETTER<\/p>\n

\u201cPole-Pole\u201d<\/p>\n

BULLETIN NO\uff64296 March 2005<\/p>\n

office@alzheimer.or.jp<\/a><\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.alzheimer.or.jp<\/a><\/p>\n

Summary Translation: HIROSAWA kayoko<\/p>\n

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Telephone consultation member training course<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cTelephone consultation member training course\u201d was opened at the fourth floor of the big hall of Kyoto Welfare Hall on January 22nd<\/sup>.\u00a0 70 members from each branch took the course.\u00a0 This training course was sponsored by the Prevention Association(a foundation), and \u201cFamily members\u2019 groups\u201d(a corporation) cooperated.<\/p>\n

It was originally planned for the people of the head office who are in charge of telephone consultation.\u00a0 However, a lot of\u00a0 people of each branch all over Japan also wanted to take it.\u00a0 So urgently the number of the participants was increased, and the following people were allowed to take the course: the present telephone\u00a0 families consultation members of \u201cFamily members\u2019 groups\u201d; the members who are interested in the consultation and is going to be consultants.\u00a0 Over the fixed number of 50 people applied for the participation.<\/p>\n

The day before the opening, it snowed heavily along the Japan Sea area, and the organizers were afraid that there would be only the small number of participants.\u00a0 Actually, however, the members had arrived one day earlier.\u00a0 As a result, the number of these enthusiastic participants came up to 70.\u00a0 From 9 o\u2019clock in the morning to 5:30 in the late afternoon, they listened to the lectures of the speakers and they seriously worked on role playing.<\/p>\n

The participants came from far away: Chiba, Saitama, Shizuoka, Gifu, Shimane, Tokushima, Hiroshima, Fukuoka, Ooita, Kagoshima.\u00a0 In addition, the telephone consultants of each branch of the Kinki area and the members who are interested in it joined.\u00a0\u00a0 As all of the participants had enough knowledge of dementia as well as care experiences, the lecturers in charge led them enthusiastically.\u00a0 We are very glad to have had a fruitful telephone consultation member training course.<\/p>\n

The keynote address was given by Dr. Hisao Nagata.\u00a0 He is a professor of the international department of Oobirin Graduate School and also the inspector of Japan Dementia Care Congress.\u00a0 He spoke of \u201cThe Psychology of Dementia.\u201d\u00a0 He began with such\u00a0 an easy test as \u201cLittle pieces of knowledge about care.\u201d\u00a0 Then, the members relaxed their tension, doing some head exercises.\u00a0 In this way they were listening seriously in order to understand the psychology of dementia sufferers.<\/p>\n

The next lecturers were Keiko Muto from NPO ASAHI counseling committee(the former representative) and Yumiko Horiuchi(the chief of the secretariat).\u00a0 They explained \u201cThe Basic Knowledge of the Telephone Consulttion.\u201d\u00a0 According to the explanation, all the members joined the role playing whose theme was \u201cMy Dream.\u201d\u00a0 They were divided into couples of two persons: one was the person who wanted consultation, and the other was the listener.\u00a0 Then, they changed the parts.\u00a0 In this way, they studied the importance of communication and knew how to listen.\u00a0 After that, they took up 3 examples and did role playing by the same couple.\u00a0 At the end they had a full talk about each couple.<\/p>\n

In this training course, Miss Muto and Miss Horiuchi themselves presented role playing.\u00a0 Its vivid performance drew the participants\u2019 attention and they were very much moved.<\/p>\n

By the participants\u2019 questionnaire, almost all of them answered that the content of this course was appropriate.\u00a0 What\u2019s more, many of them were eager to be the members of the telephone consultation.<\/p>\n

At the end of the course, Mr. Takami, President said, \u201cWe have learned much by the keynote lecture and the technical guidance.\u00a0 I would like to operate the training course from now on too, and expect the telephone consultation to be massive.\u201d\u00a0 I also hope the headquarters\u2019 telephone consultation will be massive and the number of the telephone consultation commissioners will increase.\u00a0 (Hiroharu Miyabe, Chief of the secretariat)<\/p>\n

Care Experience from Branch Letters<\/strong><\/h1>\n

Thank you very much for my mother-in-law\u2019s gentleness.<\/p>\n

Mrs. Mitsuko Watanabe(Nagasaki branch)<\/p>\n

It\u2019s 27 years since I began to live with my mother-in-law who is an Alzheimer sufferer.<\/p>\n

She will be 91 years old this May.\u00a0 It was when she was 64 years old that my mother-in-law, who is young-looking, began to be unable to live alone.\u00a0 How time flies!<\/p>\n

5 years before, she had the operation of gastrostomy, and she lived almost on the bed.\u00a0 Now, however, she is making use of the home help of long-term-care-insurance(level 5), day care, and short-term stay, living mostly in her house.\u00a0 I am now using an injector for the aspiration of phegm, nutrition infusion, and dosing.\u00a0 In addition to these things my care includes dieper change of 7~8 times a day, changing body position, changing clothes, and wiping of her body.<\/p>\n

At the beginning of the care, I was in the state of panic to<\/p>\n

see my mother-in-law\u2019s behavior.\u00a0 I did not know what to do, just moved about in confusion, repeated tries and errors, and had the sequence of mind conflict.\u00a0 I was living in the hell until I recognized she was a dementia sufferer by the doctor\u2019s diagnosis.<\/p>\n

I wept and wept, doubting \u201cWhy do these things happen?\u201d<\/p>\n

Now, however, I am caring my mother-in-law pleasantly.\u00a0 Healed by the warmness of my mother-in-law who cannot speak, I live every day with the feeling of gratitude.<\/p>\n

When I was not generous but nervous, my words to her were full of thorns.\u00a0 It took 7 years before she said to me, \u201cThank you,\u201d putting her hands together.\u00a0 Just at that moment, I decided that I would take care of her all through her life.\u00a0 It was a turning point that I myself felt strange.<\/p>\n

20 years have passed.\u00a0 Now, we want to do filial piety, with<\/p>\n

\u201cordinary and humanly\u201d as a motto.<\/p>\n

Thanks to the care of my mother-in-law, I was given a lot of rewards during these 27 years.\u00a0 I could meet the members of \u201cFamily members\u2019 groups.\u201d\u00a0 I could go to the theater and the concert.\u00a0 I enjoyed inland trips with my husband as reward trips.\u201d\u00a0 Last year I took a trip to Europe, which was my long-cherished desire.<\/p>\n

Moreover, I could take part in the society by doing the work of the prefecture and the city concerning welfare.\u00a0 I learned a lot from every activity.<\/p>\n

Sometimes, I was asked to talk about the care experience at some facilities.\u00a0 It was a good chance to let more and more people know about dementia.\u00a0 I wish dementia sufferers could live an ordinary life in the community.\u00a0 I also wish people would understand that dementia sufferers have a feeling.\u00a0 So I would like to give a helping hand to the community this year too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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