Tag - dementia

 
 

DEMENTIA

Japan Times
JAPAN / Media / MEDIA MIX
Dec 21, 2013
A confused future for our baby boomers
No generation in the history of mankind is more reviled than that of the baby boomers, who grew up during the age of mass media. Raised on TV and glossy magazines, they connected to a world their parents knew almost nothing about, and with that experience turned from youthful explorers of expanded possibilities...
Japan Times
JAPAN
Dec 11, 2013
Doctor helps his grandma die to avoid feeding tube
Kojiro Tokutake wanted to be a doctor since he was a teenager. His grandmother bought him his first stethoscope when he was in medical school. A decade later, he helped her die.
Japan Times
WORLD / Science & Health / FOCUS
Jun 26, 2013
Drumming helps those with dementia reconnect
Standing in a room full of lined faces, Alan Yellowitz held up an orange drum shaped like a wineglass. "This one's called a djembe," he said. "It's from Ghana."
EDITORIALS
Jun 23, 2013
Epidemic of dementia
Japan needs to address its dementia crisis. A recent survey found that 4.62 million people suffer from it, nearly 1.6 million more than last year's estimate.
EDITORIALS
Feb 20, 2013
Making senior facilities safer
Japan's central and local governments must find out why fires at four group homes for the elderly have resulted in at least 28 deaths since 2006.

Longform

Professional cleaner Hirofumi Sakurai takes a moment to appreciate some photographs in a Gotanda apartment whose occupant died alone.
The last cleanup: Life and death in a lonely Japan