Thursday, October 10, 2024
On Tuesday, October 8, from 10:00 to 11:30, the "Orange Café (Dementia Café)" run by the Hokuryu Town Office Resident Division was held at the Hokuryu Town Commercial Facility Cocowa, where over 20 elderly people participated and had a good time.
Orange Cafe (Dementia Cafe)
The Orange Cafe is a project under the jurisdiction of the Resident Division of the Hokuryu Town Office, which started in FY2024. It is held every Tuesday (October: 1st, 8th, 15th, 22nd, 29th) from 10:00 to 11:30. Care workers, public health nurses, and social workers are in charge of this program.
Participants were free to choose and implement the given theme, and returned home in groups of three.
Activities focused on dementia prevention
Activities are based on the theme of dementia prevention, and everyone enjoys spending time together interacting with each other through brain training, exercises, games, and other brain and body activities.
All the participants were healthy, cheerful, and energetic people who were clear-headed, enjoyed active conversation, and actively exercised their brains and hands.
Average age of participants is in their late 80s.
The average age of the participants was in their late 80s (the oldest was 93, most were in their late 80s, and several were in their 70s).
Nahoko Uchida, Head of Nursing Care Prevention Section, Resident Division, Hokuryu Town Hall, and Mirai Ohira, Public Health Nurse
Masako Nakajima and Sumiko Suzuki, Dementia Community Support Promoters, Hokuryu Town
The project is led by Nahoko Uchida, head of the Long-Term Care Prevention Section, and Mirai Ohira, a public health nurse, with the support of Masako Nakajima and Sumiko Suzuki, Hokuryu Town Dementia Community Support Promotion Officers.
On the day of the event, despite the 10:00 a.m. start time, all participants visited the site around 9:00 a.m.
The participants were so active that it was hard to believe that they were over 80 years old.
Drawing on a pumpkin
Masako Nakajima drew a rough sketch on an orange Halloween pumpkin, and everyone colored it freely with magic marker pens.
Cute!" It is a space of harmony, where happy smiles and pleasant conversations are exchanged.
brain training
- Printed questions to develop concentration, imagination and thinking skills
- Different printouts are given every week, including arrow crosses, skeletons, calculation problems, etc.
- Everyone working earnestly and enthusiastically.
- Arrow Cross:Puzzles with keys (clues) embedded in the squares
- Skeleton :A puzzle composed of skeleton squares and keywords
Drink & snack break
After using your head a lot, take a break with a drink and a snack!
chinese checkers
Players take turns moving their pieces, and the first player to reach the goal (the square of the same color across from the starting point) with all of his or her pieces wins the game.
Even the oldest, 93 years old, plays seriously!
Everyone in their late 80s, full of energy, cleaned up quickly and efficiently. They cleaned up in no time at all.
The elderly people of Hokuryu Town are in full power to live a long and healthy life!
With boundless love, gratitude and prayers for the "Orange Cafe," a precious time for bright and joyful chats, turning our brains into full speed, and training our concentration, thinking and imagination.
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◇ Reporting and writing by Ikuko Terauchi (Photography and editorial assistance by Noboru Terauchi)
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